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  • Ovid

    Serier serie Understanding Classics
    Virgil, Horace and Ovid are often cited as the three great canonical poets of classical Roman literature. And of the three, arguably it is Ovid (43 BCE-CE 17/18) who has the most enduring legacy. Carole Newlands introduces her subject as an ancient author with a vital place in the modern cultural canon: and also as the inspiration behind figures as diverse as Chaucer, Titian, Dryden and Ted Hughes ... Læs mere

    189,49 kr.

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  • The Memory Arts in Renaissance England

    A Critical Anthology

    This is the first critical anthology of writings about memory in Renaissance England. Drawing together excerpts from more than seventy writers, poets, physicians, philosophers and preachers, and with over twenty illustrations, the anthology offers the reader a guided exploration of the arts of memory. The introduction outlines the context for the tradition of the memory arts from classical times ... Læs mere

    348,76 kr.

  • Classical Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    af William Allan ...
    Serier serie Very Short Introductions
    From popular histories through to reworkings of classical subject matter by contemporary poets, dramatists, and novelists, the classical world and the masterpieces of its literature continue to fascinate readers and audiences in a huge variety of media. In this Very Short Introduction, William Allan explores what the 'classics' are and why they continue to shape our Western concepts of literature. ... Læs mere

    63,33 kr.

  • The Cambridge Companion to Ovid

    Redigeret af Philip Hardie ...
    Serier serie Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Ovid was one of the greatest writers of classical antiquity, and arguably the single most influential ancient poet for post-classical literature and culture. In this Cambridge Companion, chapters by leading authorities from Europe and North America discuss the backgrounds and contexts for Ovid, the individual works, and his influence on later literature and art. Coverage of essential information ... Læs mere

    396,32 kr.

  • The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire

    Redigeret af Kirk Freudenburg ...
    Serier serie Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Satire as a distinct genre of writing was first developed by the Romans in the second century BCE. Regarded by them as uniquely 'their own', satire held a special place in the Roman imagination as the one genre that could address the problems of city life from the perspective of a 'real Roman'. In this Cambridge Companion an international team of scholars provides a stimulating introduction to ... Læs mere

    443,88 kr.

  • The Cambridge Companion to Virgil

    Redigeret af Charles Martindale ...
    Serier serie Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Virgil became a school author in his own lifetime and the centre of the Western canon for the next 1800 years, exerting a major influence on European literature, art, and politics. This Companion is designed as an indispensable guide for anyone seeking a fuller understanding of an author critical to so many disciplines. It consists of essays by seventeen scholars from Britain, the USA, Ireland and ... Læs mere

    309,05 kr.

  • Unity and Design in Horace's Odes

    Horace’s first three books of Odes, published together in 23 B.C., are a masterpiece of Augustan literature and the culmination of classical lyric. Matthew Santirocco provides the first new critical approach to them in English in more than two decades.Drawing on recent works on ancient and modern poetry books and using several contemporary critical methodologies, Santirocco reveals the Odes both ... Læs mere

    158,45 kr.

  • The Last Trojan Hero

    A Cultural History of Virgil's Aeneid

    af Philip Hardie ...
    “I sing of arms and of a man: his fate had made him fugitive: he was the first to journey from the coasts of Troy as far as Italy and the Lavinian shores.” The resonant opening lines of Virgil's Aeneid rank among the most famous and consistently recited verses to have been passed down to later ages by antiquity. And after the Odyssey and the Iliad, Virgil's masterpiece is arguably the greatest ... Læs mere

    223,36 kr.

  • Classical Literature

    An Introduction

    Redigeret af Neil Croally, Roy Hyde ...
    Serier serie Aspects of Classical Civilization
    Classical Literature: An Introduction provides a series of essays on all the major authors of Greek and Latin literature, as well as on a number of writers less often read. An introductory chapter provides information on important general topics, such as poetic metres, patronage and symposia.The literature is put in historical context, and the material is organized chronologically, but also by ... Læs mere

    513,54 kr.

  • Arguments with Silence

    Writing the History of Roman Women

    af Amy Richlin ...
    Women in ancient Rome challenge the historian. Widely represented in literature and art, they rarely speak for themselves. Amy Richlin, among the foremost pioneers in ancient studies, gives voice to these women through scholarship that scours sources from high art to gutter invective.In Arguments with Silence, Richlin presents a linked selection of her essays on Roman women’s history, originally ... Læs mere

    275,99 kr.

  • The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy

    Redigeret af Claire McEachern ...
    Serier serie Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This revised and updated Companion acquaints the student reader with the forms, contexts, critical and theatrical lives of the ten plays considered to be Shakespeare's tragedies. Thirteen essays, written by leading scholars in Britain and North America, address the ways in which Shakespearean tragedy originated, developed and diversified, as well as how it has fared on stage, as text and in ... Læs mere

    277,42 kr.

  • Romance

    af Barbara Fuchs ...
    Serier serie The New Critical Idiom
    Often derided as an inferior form of literature, 'romance' as a literary mode or genre defies satisfactory definition, dividing critics, scholars and readers alike. This useful guidebook traces the myriad transformations of 'romance' from medieval courtly love to Mills and Boon, and claims that its elusive and complex nature serves as a touchstone for larger questions of literary and cultural ... Læs mere

    342,32 kr.