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Horror in Classical Antiquity and Beyond

This open-access volume is the first to explore systematically and comprehensively the concept and category of 'horror' in antiquity. The contributors retrieve the ancient grammar of horror by paying equa…

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Estelle Haan
The Latin Poetry of Thomas Gray

In the first full-scale edition of Thomas Gray's Latin poetry, the Latin text and facing English translation are complemented by a detailed introduction and comprehensive commentary that situate Gray's La…

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Jenny Messenger,
Kathleen Raine

For the poet and scholar Kathleen Raine, ancient texts were not obsolete, but vital handbooks for reading reality . Drawing on Graeco-Roman philosophy alongside modernist receptions of the ancient world, …

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Alessandra Tafaro
Inscribing Flavian Rome

This volume offers an investigation of Martial's engagement with Roman epigraphic habits and proposes a new interpretation of early imperial writing culture. It argues that epigrammatic poetry and epigrap…

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Shakespeare in Ireland

Through a selection of essays from a variety of scholarly voices, this volume maps the various ways in which Shakespeare has been adapted, adopted and appropriated in Ireland from the late 17th century th…

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A Philology of the Future

This book gathers a group of scholars whose work has been influenced by the distinctive dialogue between ancient philosophy (and rhetoric) and critical theory promoted by the scholarship of James I. Porte…

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An Alternative History of Shakespearean Acting

What are the qualities of a 'Shakespearean actor'? Who has access to this identity? And can 'Shakespearean' ever be a meaningful descriptor for acting identities without reinforcing conservative cultural …

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Andrew Crichton
The American School Library: The History of Arabia, Ancient and Modern

Reprint of the original, first published in 1838. The Antigonos publishing house specialises in the publication of reprints of historical books. We make sure that these works are made available to the pub…

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Andrew Crichton
The American School Library: The History of Arabia, Ancient and Modern

Reprint of the original, first published in 1838. The Antigonos publishing house specialises in the publication of reprints of historical books. We make sure that these works are made available to the pub…

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Tyrone Williams,
Ludic Pleasures

Incisive observations on popular music, poetry, and culture, and on the ways that gender, race, class, and contemporary politics shape artistic production.Poet and critic Tyrone Williams (1954-2024) was a…

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Teaching Politically

"Teaching Politically addresses a pair of important and resonant issues in universities in the U.S. and elsewhere: how one teaches and learns under political pressure and surveillance, and how one ta…

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Meng Xia
Reading Contemporary Chinese Migrant Fiction

Reading Contemporary Chinese Migrant Fiction examines the spectrum of Chinese migrant writing about memory since the 1990s and what it tells us about history, memory and trauma in contemporary China. Draw…

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Teaching Politically

Culture is inextricable from politics. This includes the politics of who we are, as teachers, intellectuals, writers, cultural workers, and students, and what we want to bring to and take from the site of…

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David Parry
The Oxford Handbook of Allegory

Allegory has been variously defined as a literary genre, a mode of interpretation, and a symbolic dimension to all language. Although 'allegory' historically escapes easy definition, it can be broadly def…

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Chunjie Zhang
The Quest for Liberation

"Groundbreaking on a grand philosophical scale, The Quest for Liberation shows how German and Chinese thinkers drew on each other in search of emancipation from the confines of their own traditions. …

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Jamaica Kincaid,
An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children

A unique collaboration from two of America's leading artists that explores the fascinating and hidden history of the plant world.In this witty, deeply original book, the renowned novelist Jamaica Kincaid …

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Michael North
What Is the Present?

A provocative new look at concepts of the present, their connection to ideas about time, and their effect on literature, art, and cultureThe problem of the present-what it is and what it means-is one that…

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Chunjie Zhang
The Quest for Liberation

Contemporary debate on cosmopolitanism routinely refers to Immanuel Kant as its intellectual origin. A group of Chinese and German-speaking thinkers in the early twentieth century, however, used classical…

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C F Ramuz,
Into the Sun

It's been a hot summer for a Swiss lakeside town-both bucolic and citylike, old-fashioned and up-to-date-when a "great message," telegraphed from one continent to another, announces an "acc…

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Giulia Riccò
The Italian Colony of São Paulo

WINNER, 2024 ALDO AND JEANNE SCAGLIONE PUBLICATION AWARD FOR A MANUSCRIPT IN ITALIAN LITERARY STUDIES, MODERN LANGUAGES ASSOCIATIONIntroduces a way to study migration that privileges literary analysis ove…

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