Catálogo de libros: Estudios literarios: general

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  • Character, Narrator, and Simile in the Iliad
    Jonathan L. Ready / Jonathan LReady
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    153,49 €

  • Thor
    Martin Arnold
    The myths of the Norse god Thor were preserved in the Icelandic Eddas, set down in the early Middle Ages. The bane of giants and trolls, Thor was worshipped as the last line of defence against all that threatened early Nordic society. Thor’s significance persisted long after the Christian conversion and, in the mid-eighteenth century, Thor resumed a symbolic prominence among no...
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    51,12 €

  • Homer’s Odyssey and the Near East
    Bruce Louden
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    140,83 €

  • The Divine Comedy
    Dante Alighieri / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    A classic English translation - archaic in tone but never obscure - of Dante’s famous poem by the pre-eminent poet of nineteenth century America, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. ...
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    36,95 €

  • Vernacular and Latin Literary Discourses of the Muslim Other in Medieval Germany
    Jerold C. Frakes
    Little attention has been focused on the representation of Muslims in medieval Germany. Proceeding from a grounded use of contemporary cultural theory and close textual analysis, this study analyzes the role of Muslims in several core texts representing drama, epic, and lyric written by the most important writers of medieval Germany. Far from simply adding medieval Germany to t...
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    65,12 €

  • Stroke of a Pen
    Samuel Hazo
    For over five decades, Samuel Hazo has taught his readers about literature and life with generosity and awareness, taking everyday experiences and translating them into songs at once familiar and surprising. In his poetry, fiction, essays, and plays, Hazo, in a style that is unmistakably his own, extols the wonderment and discovery that emerge in the act of writing, in the move...
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    22,52 €

  • Structuring Spaces
    Lori Ann Garner
    In Structuring Spaces: Oral Poetics and Architecture in Early Medieval England, Lori Ann Garner illuminates the idiomatic and traditional meanings invested in depictions of architecture within the vernacular verse of early medieval England, portrayals that consistently demonstrate a shared aesthetic between literary texts and physical buildings. Through systematic exploration o...
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    49,96 €

  • Madness Transformed
    Lee Fratantuono / Lee Fratantuono 2
    Madness Transformed: A Reading of OvidOs Metamorphoses is one of the most comprehensive studies available in English of one of the most majestic and perennially appealing of Roman epics. Students and readers of all levels, from high school Latinists through seasoned Ovidians, will find something of use here as Frantantuono analyzes the work scene by scene, guiding the reader to...
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    83,37 €

  • Vernacular and Latin Literary Discourses of the Muslim Other in Medieval Germany
    J. Frakes
    Little attention has been focused the representation of Muslims in medieval Germany. Proceeding from a grounded use of contemporary cultural theory and close textual analysis, this study focuses Muslims in several core texts representing drama, epic, and lyric written by the most important writers of medieval Germany. Far from simply adding medieval Germany to the growing schol...
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    66,48 €

  • Classical Literature
    Classical Literature: An Introduction provides an overview of the essential aspects of Greek and Latin literature. In conjunction with contextualising introductions the material is presented chronologically, by genre and where appropriate by author. The book ranges from Homer to the Roman Empire and includes a chronology of ancient literature, maps, lists of Greek and Roman aut...
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    240,10 €

  • Classical Literature
    Classical Literature: An Introduction provides an overview of the essential aspects of Greek and Latin literature. In conjunction with contextualising introductions the material is presented chronologically, by genre and where appropriate by author. The book ranges from Homer to the Roman Empire and includes a chronology of ancient literature, maps, lists of Greek and Roman aut...
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    72,33 €

  • Reading, Writing, and Errant Subjects in Inquisitorial Spain
    Ryan Prendergast
    Reading, Writing, and Errant Subjects in Inquisitorial Spain explores the conception and production of early modern Spanish literary texts in the context of the inquisitorial socio-cultural environment of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Prendergast analyzes instances of how the elaborate censorial system and the threat of punishment that both the Inquisition and the Cr...
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    255,00 €

  • Dante’s Paradiso and the Limitations of Modern Criticism
    Robin Kirkpatrick
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    54,40 €

  • Patterns of Redemption in Virgil’s Georgics
    Llewelyn Morgan
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    56,75 €

  • Literary Patronage in Greece and Rome
    Barbara S. Gold / Barbara SGold
    Focusing on literary evidence, Gold explores patronage in Greece and Rome through the words of the authors, revealing the forces that patronage exerted on genius and talent. The author argues that, although the patron was in important influence in the development of the literature written for and about him, the literary product emerged as a force in itself, independent of the i...
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    64,22 €

  • Palimpsests and the Literary Imagination of Medieval England
    L. Carruthers / R. Chai-Elsholz / Tatjana Silec
    Witnesses to the disappearance of a text, palimpsest manuscripts bear the marks of their own genesis, with their original inscription rubbed out and written over on the same parchment. This collection explores analogies of erasure and rewriting observed in editorial and literary practices underlying the production of texts from medieval England. ...
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    66,32 €

  • New Idioms Within Old
    Eric D. Reymond / Eric DReymond
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    31,02 €

  • Reading Virgil
    Peter Jones
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    45,19 €

  • Medicinal Cannibalism in Early Modern English Literature and Culture
    L. Noble
    The human body, traded, fragmented and ingested is at the centre of Medicinal Cannibalism in Early Modern English Literature and Culture , which explores the connections between early modern literary representations of the eaten body and the medical consumption of corpses. ...
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    146,38 €

  • Reading Virgil
    Peter Jones
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    161,88 €

  • Palimpsests and the Literary Imagination of Medieval England
    Witnesses to the disappearance of a text, palimpsest manuscripts bear the marks of their own genesis, with their original inscription rubbed out and written over on the same parchment. This collection explores analogies of erasure and rewriting observed in editorial and literary practices underlying the production of texts from medieval England. ...
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    64,97 €

  • Divine Ventriloquism in Medieval English Literature
    Mary Hayes
    Divine Ventriloquism in Medieval English Literature studies medieval attitudes towards the human mediation of God’s and Christ’s voices and thus attends to how medieval people resignified a pagan practice. As Mary Hayes demonstrates, the ventriloquized divine voice ultimately permits an exploration of human relationships with God as well as mundane relationships between the div...
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    65,09 €

  • Freedom Readers
    Dennis Looney
    Freedom Readers: The African American Reception of Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy is a literary-historical study of the many surprising ways in which Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy have assumed a position of importance in African American culture. Dennis Looney examines how African American authors have read, interpreted, and responded to Dante and his work from t...
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    42,65 €

  • Freedom Readers
    Dennis Looney
    Freedom Readers: The African American Reception of Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy is a literary-historical study of the many surprising ways in which Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy have assumed a position of importance in African American culture. Dennis Looney examines how African American authors have read, interpreted, and responded to Dante and his work from t...
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    143,51 €

  • On the Art of Poetry
    Aristotle / Ingram Bywater
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    9,63 €

  • Fiction and History in England, 1066 1200
    Laura Ashe
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    62,93 €

  • The Poetry of Praise
    J. A. Burrow / JABurrow
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    63,15 €

  • The Creation of Lancastrian Kingship
    Jenni Nuttall
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    63,16 €

  • Looking at Lysistrata
    David Stuttard
    In Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, the women of Athens, fed up with the war against Sparta, go on a sex strike and barricade themselves into the acropolis to persuade their husbands to vote against the war. It is the most often performed of all Aristophanes’ comedies. It is also, perhaps, the most misunderstood. This collection of essays by eight leading academics - written for sixth...
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    44,92 €

  • The Classics and South African Identities
    Michael Lambert
    The teaching and research of the Classics in South Africa are deeply rooted in the racial, political and educational inequalities which have characterised its turbulent history. In this original study, Michael Lambert opens three windows on to this history, using the creation of identities as his theoretical lens. The foundation of the Classical Association of South Africa in 1...
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    64,54 €


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