Ancient Classical category: 1324 books
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
This collection explores some of the many ways in which sanctity was closely intertwined with the development of literary strategies across a range of writings in late medieval Britain. Rather than looking for clues in religious practices in order to explain such changes, or reading literature for...
Motherhood and the Other
Fashioning Female Power in Flavian Epic
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
This is the first book-length study to reconstruct the role of women in the epic poems of the Flavian period of Latin literature. Antony Augoustakis examines the role of female characters from the perspective of Julia Kristeva's theories on foreign otherness and motherhood to underscore the on-going...
In the Image of the Ancestors
Narratives of Kinship in Flavian Epic
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2008
Only four Roman epic poems survive from the Flavian period (69-96 AD): Valerius Flaccus's Argonautica, Statius's Thebaid and Achilleid, and Silius Italicus's Punica. Neil W. Bernstein argues that these poems contain depictions of kinship that are significantly different from earlier epic and examines...
by Robert Price
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2011
Previous commentaries on the Gospel of Thomas have tended mainly to make this intriguing text less understandable to the general reader not less. Choking on their authors' methodology these commentaries are more about them than the text. Robert M. Price brings striking clarity to a fascinating text...
Between earth and heaven
Liminality and the Ascension of Christ in Anglo-Saxon literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Examines the teaching of the theology of Christ’s ascension in Anglo-Saxon literature, offering the only comprehensive examination of how patristic ascension theology is transmitted, adapted and taught to Anglo-Saxon audiences
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
This is one of England’s oldest mystery plays. The text is present with both the original translation and a modern translation. Please note, this story is also included in the collection “Everyman and Other Old Religious Plays In Plain and Simple English.”
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Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
With contributions from 29 leading international scholars, this is the first single-volume guide to the appropriation of medieval texts in contemporary culture.
Medieval Afterlives in Contemporary Culture covers a comprehensive range of media, including literature, film, TV, comics book adaptations,...
Preserving the Spell
Basile's "The Tale of Tales" and Its Afterlife in the Fairy-Tale Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
Fairy tales are supposed to be magical, surprising, and exhilarating, an enchanting counterpoint to everyday life that nonetheless helps us understand and deal with the anxieties of that life. Today, however, fairy tales are far from marvelous—in the hands of Hollywood, they have been stripped of...
Lure of the Arcane
The Literature of Cult and Conspiracy
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Fascination with the arcane is a driving force in this comprehensive survey of conspiracy fiction. Theodore Ziolkowski traces the evolution of cults, orders, lodges, secret societies, and conspiracies through various literary manifestations—drama, romance, epic, novel, opera—down to the thrillers...
Storytelling as Plague Prevention in Medieval and Early Modern Italy
The Decameron Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Through close readings of five Italian collections of novellas written over a 500-year period, Martin Marafioti explores the literary tradition of storytelling, and particularly its efficacy as a healing tool following traumatic visitations from the plague. In this study, Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron...
Con Ovidio
La felicità di leggere un classico
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 11, 2017
Ovidio è tra i classici più amati e più fortunati dell’antichità, e il suo astro non ha mai conosciuto eclissi. Autore di un’opera influentissima come le Metamorfosi, è teorico del gioco amoroso, inventore dell’epistola sentimentale, maestro insuperato di stile. Ma con la sua parabola biografica...
Modernism and Homer
The Odysseys of H.D., James Joyce, Osip Mandelstam, and Ezra Pound
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
This comparative study crosses multiple cultures, traditions, genres, and languages in order to explore the particular importance of Homer in the emergence, development, and promotion of modernist writing. It shows how and why the Homeric epics served both modernist formal experimentation, including...
Archaeology and State Theory
Subjects and Objects of Power
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
After neo-evolutionism, how does one talk about the pre-modern state? Over the past two decades archaeological research has shifted decisively from check-list identifications of the state as an evolutionary type to studies of how power and authority were constituted in specific polities. Developing...
by Miriam Leonard
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Under the microscope of recent scholarship the universality of Greek tragedy has started to fade, as particularities of Athenian culture have come into focus. Miriam Leonard contests the idea of the death of tragedy and argues powerfully for the continued vitality and viability of Greek tragic theater in the central debates of contemporary culture.