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The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Iliad investigates each of the Iliad's twenty-four books, proceeding in order from book 1 to book 24 and devoting one chapter to each one. Contributors summarize the plot of a book and then explore its themes and poetics, providing...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-07-12
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Acclaimed novelist and academic Tabish Khair argues that literature as a distinct mode of thinking can counteract fundamentalism.
Literature is a mode of thinking, stories being one of the oldest thinking 'devices' known to humankind. The ways in which literature...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-07-12
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How did the popular drama of Shakespeare's age become literature? Every work that has survived from the theater of past ages has gone through some editorial process to make it available to readers. The book of the play is not the play on the stage; returning it to the...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-07-12
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The Making of Felony Procedure in Middle English Literature explores the literary inheritance of criminal procedure in thirteenth to fifteenth century English law, focusing on felony, the gravest common law offense. Most scholarship in medieval law and literature has...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-07-12
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Flattery in Seneca the Younger explores the discourse of flattery in Seneca's philosophical texts, and analyses the extent to which Seneca developed a theory of adulation. Martina Russo maps a phenomenology of flattery, tracing its external manifestations in Senecan...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-07-12
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The Derveni papyrus is a multi-layered and intricate philosophical and religious treatise written in Greek, probably just before 400 BCE. Since its discovery in 1962, the papyrus has attracted the attention of scholars in several areas of Classical studies, mostly...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-07-12
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In fourteenth-century Italy, literacy became accessible to a significantly larger portion of the lay population (allegedly between 60 and 80 percent in Florence) and provided a crucial means for the vernacularization and secularization of learning, and for the...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-07-12
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Women in Martial is the first monograph to treat the portrayals of women in Martial's Epigrams in a systematic way. In this volume, Marchesi proposes a new method of exploring the cultural construction of femininity in the Flavian age, presenting an interplay between...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-07-12
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Translating Europe in Ælfric's 'Lives of Saints' is the first study of the representation of European peoples, places, and geographies in the Lives of Saints, one of early medieval England's most famed works. It examines the Lives of Saints as a unified collection whose...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-07-12
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The Dark Side of Statius' Achilleid explores systematically and for the first time the darker aspects of Statius' Achilleid, bringing to light the poem's tragic and epic dimensions. By seeking to position at centre-stage these darker elements, the book offers several...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-07-12
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Der Band bietet eine Auseinandersetzung mit der Dependenz zwischen Poetizität und Wirklichkeit, zwischen Schreiben als Engagement und Schreiben als Selbsttherapie, zwischen Erinnerung und Verfälschung. Es werden die Flucht der Figuren vor dem irakischen Regime seit...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-07-11
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This study argues that allusion is a central part of classic British detective fiction. It demonstrates the fraught status of Shakespeare and the Bible during the Golden Age of the British detective novel, and the cultural currents which novelists navigated whilst...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-07-09
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Dieses Buch bietet einen ersten wissenschaftlichen Überblick über einen bislang vernachlässigten Bereich der deutschsprachigen Kriminalliteratur, der unter der Genrebezeichnung ‚Thriller‘ firmiert – und den Buchmarkt derzeit geradezu dominiert. Dabei besteht das Ziel...
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J.B. Metzler
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2024-07-08
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Kriminalität in Literatur und Medien
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Matriarchale Elemente existieren in der russischen und russländischen Kultur als ein bedeutender Bestandteil der sozialen Ordnung, der Sprache, der Mythologien und der religiösen und weltanschaulichen Positionen. Das Buch untersucht die Beziehungen zwischen der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-07-08
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Commonly used as a rallying cry for general approaches to literary studies, the imagination has until recently been overwritten with romantic and modernist inflections that impede our understanding of literature’s intimate involvement in early modern cognition. To...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-07-07
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This book offers an analytical model for the interpretation of theory-informed novels – American, English, French, German, and Italian – from the past 50 years. Works discussed include Laurent Binet’s The 7th Function of Language, Italo Calvino’s If on a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-07-07
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'You have given a faithful portrait of a Thug's life, his ceremonies, and his acts'
Often overshadowed by Kipling's Kim or Forster's A Passage to India, Philip Meadows Taylor's forgotten classic, Confessions of a Thug (1839), is nevertheless the most influential...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-07-06
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'This solitude, the romance and wild loveliness of everything here . . . all make beloved Scotland the proudest, finest country in the world.'
Queen Victoria (1819-1901) wrote a diary nearly every day of her life. Originally intended for private circulation, later...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-07-06
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This book is the first full-length study of apes and monkeys on the early modern stage. It broadens the scope of existing scholarship by situating the apes glimpsed in Shakespeare’s plays in the wider context of the many uncelebrated uses by other playwrights, c....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-07-06
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This book presents the concept of Fenggu, one of the most important aesthetic categories of ancient China. As an inspiring aesthetic principle, it once encapsulated the particularities of various types of artistic creation and played an important role in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-07-05
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