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  • Study Guide to Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for William Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1, the second play in Shakespeare’s tetralogy portraying the succeeding reigns of Richard II, Henry IV, and Henry V. As a historical drama of the sixteenth-century, Shakespeare combines history and comedy to illustrate the rise of the English Royal House of L...
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    8,54 €

  • Study Guide to The Tempest by William Shakespeare
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, speculated to be one of the last plays he ever wrote as well as the most compressed. As a dramatic work of the early seventeenth century, it has heavy elements of masque, which includes singing, dancing, supernatural machinery, and a general feeling of unrealit...
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    11,28 €

  • Study Guide to Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, one of several plays based on true events from Roman history.As a historical drama of Roman war time, Julius Caesar explores the complicated nature of power and political transitions. Moreover, Shakespeare focuses on the moral struggle between demands of hono...
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    8,51 €

  • Study Guide to A Farewell to Arms and Other Works by Ernest Hemingway
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Ernest Hemingway, winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature. Titles in this study guide include A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea, and The Sun Also Rises. As an influential figure of twentieth-century fiction, Hemingway’s eloquent prose sty...
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    15,27 €

  • Plato’s Socrates on Socrates
    Anne-Marie Schultz
    Anne-Marie Schultz explores Plato’s presentation of Socrates as a philosopher who tells narratives about himself in the Theaetetus, Symposium, Apology, and Phaedo. She argues that scholars should regard Socrates as a public philosopher, while examining Socratic self-disclosive practices in the works of bell hooks, Kathy Khang, and Ta-Neishi Coates. ...
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    122,57 €

  • Riddles at work in the early medieval tradition
    The first collection devoted solely to early medieval riddles, Riddles at work showcases recent research in this popular, new field. It brings together studies of Old English and Latin riddles, authors at various stages of their careers and a range of approaches, aiming to map out both the state of the field now and its future directions. ...
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    157,15 €

  • Enacting the Bible in medieval and early modern drama
    The thirteen chapters in this collection open up new horizons for the study of biblical drama by putting special emphasis on multitemporality, the intersections of biblical narrative and performance, and the strategies employed by playwrights to rework and adapt the biblical source material in Catholic, Protestant and Jewish culture. ...
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    157,12 €

  • Study Guide to Beowulf
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Beowulf, considered by some to be representative of the earliest stage in the development of oral poetry. As one of the most well-known works of early Anglo-Saxon literature, Beowulf is one of the earliest records of standard Old English. Moreover, this epic is studied for its use of fusing paga...
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    11,32 €

  • Study Guide to The Divine Comedy by Dante
    Intelligent Education
    A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Dante’s The Divine Comedy, a defining work of religious literature for the Renaissance time period. In Pilgrim’s exploration through the Inferno, Purgatory, and Heaven, Dante takes readers on a religious journey of the soul as defined by the Renaissance era. In doing so, his work also displayed ...
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    15,52 €

  • Chaucer’s Neoplatonism
    John M. Hill / John MHill
    Chaucer’s Neoplatonism covers his major works and the ways in which he has absorbed a Boethian, essentially rational Neoplatonism. By means of that philosophy he poetically engages issues of truth, falsehood, love, friendship, joy, and community. His widely recognized, capacious humanism arises from that engagement. ...
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    54,51 €

  • Anachronism and Antiquity
    Carol Atack / Tim Rood / Tom Phillips
    This book is a study both of anachronism in antiquity and of anachronism as a vehicle for understanding antiquity. It explores the post-classical origins and changing meanings of the term ’anachronism’ as well as the presence of anachronism in all its forms in classical literature, criticism and material objects. Contrary to the position taken by many modern philosophers of his...
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    46,92 €

  • Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio
    Zygmunt G. Barański / Zygmunt GBaranski
    Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, the three crowns of Italian literature, dealt with literature, doctrine, and reality in distinct, yet also overlapping, ways. In this major collection of nineteen essays, Barański explores how they endeavoured to create and establish their authority and identity as writers, while developing new ideas about literature and its status in the world, ...
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    130,85 €

  • Oedipus
    Lowell Edmunds
    The power of the Oedipus legend is apparent not only in its interpretations but even more so in its variations. As Edmunds writes, Translations, adaptations, and performances still come forth in a never-ending stream. Again and again, playwrights have tried their hand at new shapings of the Sophoclean Oedipuses and often a country's Oedipus forms a whole chapter in the hist...
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    60,35 €

  • The Aesthetics of Hope in Late Greek Imperial Literature
    Dawn LaValle Norman
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    120,24 €

  • Classical Literature on Screen
    Martin M. Winkler / Martin MWinkler
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    44,75 €

  • Classical Antiquity in Video Games Playing with the Ancient World
    Christian Rollinger
    From gaming consoles to smartphones, video games are everywhere today, including those set in historical times and particularly in the ancient world. This volume explores the varied depictions of the ancient world in video games and demonstrates the potential challenges of games for scholars as well as the applications of game engines for educational and academic purposes. With...
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    160,52 €

  • Constructions of Feminine Identity in the Catholic Tradition
    Christopher M. Flavin / Christopher MFlavin
    Examining texts from the beginning of the Christian era through the Renaissance, the author demonstrates that the performative role of women writers is critical to understanding the place of the individual in the broader Catholic intellectual tradition in the Anglophone world. ...
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    122,37 €

  • Dating Beowulf
    Dating Beowulf explores the difficulties and pleasures of intimacy with Beowulf -philological and speculative, playful and serious - and how they organise themselves in an array of interrelated critical practices. Opening avenues for future work, it complicates urgent questions in the discourses of literary theory and Old English studies. ...
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    42,54 €

  • Writing Neo-Assyrian History
    G. B. Lanfranchi
    The purpose of the papers read at the meeting held in Helsinki, Finland, in 2014, and of the relevant proceedings forming this volume, was to discuss and update the historical methodologies adopted in the past and present study of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. The title of the meeting and of this proceedings volume, “Writing Neo-Assyrian History”, clearly indicates the aim of the or...
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    118,07 €

  • Medieval Mythography, Volume One
    Jane Chance
    The mythic world of Juno, Jupiter’s consort, is one of flesh and begetting, of suffering and death, and of poetry itself. Exploring the relationship between that realm of the classical gods and the sphere of medieval mythographers, Jane Chance illuminates the efforts of medieval writers to understand human existence and the forces of nature in relation to Christian truth. ...
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    54,51 €

  • Medieval Mythography, Volume One
    Jane Chance
    The mythic world of Juno, Jupiter’s consort, is one of flesh and begetting, of suffering and death, and of poetry itself. Exploring the relationship between that realm of the classical gods and the sphere of medieval mythographers, Jane Chance illuminates the efforts of medieval writers to understand human existence and the forces of nature in relation to Christian truth. ...
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    71,59 €

  • Medieval Mythography, Volume Two
    Jane Chance
    The second volume in Jane Chance’s study of the history of medieval mythography from the fifth through fifteenth centuries focuses on the time period in Western Europe between the School of Chartres and the papal court at Avignon. This examination of historical and philosophical developments in the story of mythography reflects the ever-increasing importance of the subjectivity...
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    47,28 €

  • Medieval Mythography, Volume Three
    Jane Chance
    With this volume, Jane Chance concludes her monumental study of the history of mythography in medieval literature. Her focus here is the advent of hybrid mythography, the transformation of mythological commentary by blending the scholarly with the courtly and the personal.No other work examines the mythographic interrelationships among these poets and their unique and personal ...
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    51,16 €

  • Medieval Mythography, Volume Two
    Jane Chance
    The second volume in Jane Chance’s study of the history of medieval mythography from the fifth through fifteenth centuries focuses on the time period in Western Europe between the School of Chartres and the papal court at Avignon. This examination of historical and philosophical developments in the story of mythography reflects the ever-increasing importance of the subjectivity...
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    64,37 €

  • Medieval Mythography, Volume Three
    Jane Chance
    With this volume, Jane Chance concludes her monumental study of the history of mythography in medieval literature. Her focus here is the advent of hybrid mythography, the transformation of mythological commentary by blending the scholarly with the courtly and the personal.No other work examines the mythographic interrelationships among these poets and their unique and personal ...
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    68,26 €

  • Dante’s Comedy and the Ethics of Invective in Medieval Italy
    Nicolino Applauso
    This book proposes a new approach to invective and comic poetry in the Middle Ages and opens the way for an innovative understanding of Dante’s masterpiece. It also unveils new biographical data from Italian state archives (published in English for the very first time) about important poets from medieval Italy. ...
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    156,12 €

  • Gender and Text in the Later Middle Ages
    Jane Chance
    The women who spoke or wrote in the margins of the Middle Ages--women who were oppressed and diminished by social and religious institutions--often were not literate. Or, if they could read, they did not know how to write. Transforming or subverting Western and patristic traditions associated with the clergy, they also turned to Eastern and North African traditions and to popul...
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    37,99 €

  • Gender and Text in the Later Middle Ages
    Jane Chance
    The women who spoke or wrote in the margins of the Middle Ages--women who were oppressed and diminished by social and religious institutions--often were not literate. Or, if they could read, they did not know how to write. Transforming or subverting Western and patristic traditions associated with the clergy, they also turned to Eastern and North African traditions and to popul...
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    55,08 €

  • Practising shame
    Mary C. Flannery / Mary CFlannery
    Practicing shame explores how the literature of medieval England encouraged women to secure their honour by cultivating hypervigilance against shame. The book transforms our understanding of the construction of femininity in the past and offers a new framework for thinking about honourable womanhood now and in the years to come. ...
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    157,49 €

  • From the Earliest Gospel (Q+) to the Gospel of Mark
    Dennis R. MacDonald / Dennis RMacDonald
    In this book, Dennis R. MacDonald argues that the intertextuality of the Synoptic Gospels is best explained not as the redaction of sources but more flexibly as the imitation of literary texts, such as the Iliad and the Odyssey. ...
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    170,33 €


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