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Patrick Cheney
Placing Elysium in Renaissance Britain

Cheney explores the literary trope of Elysium from ancient Greek poetry to the English Renaissance, with attention to its place in cartography and the geographies of the sixteenth century, and with emphas…

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Sarah Bowden
Writing Sin in the German Lands, 1050-1215

This book is about the relationship between dealing with sin and writing poetry in the Middle Ages; focusing particularly on twelfth-century Germany, it discusses how people performed penance and thought …

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Anke Walter
Festivals in Latin Literature

Festivals feature prominently in Latin literature, even in works that are not explicitly dedicated to festive days like Ovid's Fasti. This book explores the role of festivals in elegiac, lyric, and epic p…

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John M Bowers, Peter Steffensen
Tolkien on Chaucer, 1913-1959

Tolkien on Chaucer, 1913-59 traces Tolkien's career-long engagement with the works of Geoffrey Chaucer and shows how Chaucer was a major source of inspiration for all of Tolkien's creative works, most not…

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Jane Weaver

Love In Constant Spectacle (Limited Indie Deluxe Edition)

Mit ihrer bisher offenherzigsten, direktesten und intimsten Sammlung von Material stellt sie ihre einzigartige Reise durch die britische Musiklandschaft neu auf. »Love In Constant Spectacle« beschwört sp…

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Jonathan L Ready
The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Iliad

The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Iliad makes learning about this foundational epic easier than ever, investigating each of its 24 books in order, devoting one chapter to each book. Chapters summarize …

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Jonathan L Ready
The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Iliad

The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Iliad makes learning about this foundational epic easier than ever, investigating each of its 24 books in order, devoting one chapter to each book. Chapters summarize …

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Laozi,
DAO de Jing

This bold new translation by two brilliant poets offers a contemporary perspective on a timeless masterpiece of Daoist scripture, introducing the Dao De Jing to a new audience while retaining the majesty …

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Elizabeth Fowler
Poetry and the Built Environment

This book is about how poems, as well as other kinds of art, show us how to experience them. It offers a new approach to criticism that recognises poetry as one among the arts of the built environment, in…

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Luca Graverini
Reader Immersion in Latin Prose and Verse Narrative

This book introduces contemporary critical perspectives to the study of ancient Latin narrative texts, demonstrating how they encourage their readers to experience the fictional world and its inhabitants-…

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Amanda Holton
Rhyme and the Construction of Love in English Lyric 1300-1579

This book, underpinned by a database, demonstrates that rhyme is not a superficial decorative feature but rather a powerful force which fundamentally determines subject-matter. It focuses on the relations…

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Simone Weil, Rachel Bespaloff,
War and the Iliad

War and the Iliad is a perfect introduction to the range of Homer's art as well as a provocative and rewarding demonstration of the links between literature, philosophy, and questions of life and death.Si…

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Jenny C Mann
The Trials of Orpheus

A revealing look at how the Orpheus myth helped Renaissance writers and thinkers understand the force of eloquence In ancient Greek mythology, the lyrical songs of Orpheus charmed the gods, and compelled…

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Ambient Assisted Living

This book provides state-of-the-art information on ambient assisted living (AAL) and focuses on technologies, services, living spaces, policies, and interventions to promote health, improve quality of lif…

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Camilla Caporicci
The Song of Songs and Its Tradition in Renaissance Love Lyric

Traditionally attributed to King Solomon and called by Rabbi Aqiva the "Holy of Holies" among sacred Scriptures (Mishnah, Yadayim 3:5), the Song of Songs is one of the most fascinating and contr…

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Filippo Gianferrari
Dante's Education

Gianferrari explores the early education Dante would have received in medieval Florence and its influence on his literary works. He reconstructs literacy instruction in late-medieval Italy to offer a comp…

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Jenny Messenger
Kathleen Raine

"This book considers Raine's engagement with Graeco-Roman philosophy in her poetry, scholarship, essays, and autobiographical writings. Kathleen Raine was a poet, literary scholar, and co-founder of …

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Christopher Tanfield
A Companion to the Aeneid in Translation: Volume 3

"For the first time, with this three-volume companion, students can access the full literary and historical significance of the Aeneid in translation through a commentary that unpicks Virgil's litera…

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Ulrich Marzolph
The Arabic Fable

The present book is the first attempt to provide a representative inventory of fables documented in premodern Arabic literature. It surveys a total of 330 numbered fables with short summaries, exhaustive …

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Christopher Tanfield
A Companion to the Aeneid in Translation: Volume 2

"For the first time, with this three-volume companion, students can access the full literary and historical significance of the Aeneid in translation through a commentary that unpicks Virgil's litera…

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