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Victoria Ocampo's account of Rabindranath Tagore’s stay in Argentina is an important document tracing Indo-Argentine contact. This first English translation includes a critical introduction, notes, and an annotated bibliography for scholars and readers.
Victoria Ocampo’s account of Rabindranath Tagore’s stay in Argentina is an important document tracing Indo-Argentine contact. This first English translation includes a critical introduction, notes, and an annotated bibliography for scholars and readers.
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This book explores the enduring myth of Antigone and her timeless power of resistance. It shows how subjectivity is forged in crisis, tracing the myth to its reconstruction in Kamila Shamsie’s work, where Antigone is reborn as Aneeka, a modern Muslim British woman.
This book explores the enduring myth of Antigone and her timeless power of resistance. It shows how subjectivity is forged in crisis, tracing the myth to its reconstruction in Kamila Shamsie’s work, where Antigone is reborn as Aneeka, a modern Muslim British woman.
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A Special Model of Classical Reception
Summaries and Short Narratives
This volume traces the influence of epics like the Odyssey across a vast geographical and cultural space. It analyzes modern and contemporary tales from around the globe, focusing on how major political phenomena can have on universal creativity.
This volume traces the influence of epics like the Odyssey across a vast geographical and cultural space. It analyzes modern and contemporary tales from around the globe, focusing on how major political phenomena can have on universal creativity.
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Zeus, Jupiter, Jesus and the Catholic Church
What Good Is a God?
Why get out of bed in the morning? This book finds an answer in Virgil’s Aeneid: “No day shall erase you from the memory of time.” It connects the Aeneid’s deceitful gods to the Bible’s Devil to reveal an offer of eternal happiness, freely given, not forced.
Why get out of bed in the morning? This book finds an answer in Virgil’s Aeneid: “No day shall erase you from the memory of time.” It connects the Aeneid’s deceitful gods to the Bible’s Devil to reveal an offer of eternal happiness, freely given, not forced.
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Interpreting Suicide
Textuality of a Mortality
This critical contribution to suicidology analyzes suicides as ‘Texts’. Drawing on theorists like Barthes, Derrida, and Foucault, it explores the deaths of immortalised characters, forgotten writers, and the culturally devoiced by using literary and cultural theories.
This critical contribution to suicidology analyzes suicides as ‘Texts’. Drawing on theorists like Barthes, Derrida, and Foucault, it explores the deaths of immortalised characters, forgotten writers, and the culturally devoiced by using literary and cultural theories.
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This volume challenges colonial representations of indigenous peoples. It re-reads native discourses from around the world to celebrate their multiplicity of meanings, discussing literary performances, history, testimony, displacement, and the struggle for legitimacy.
This volume challenges colonial representations of indigenous peoples. It re-reads native discourses from around the world to celebrate their multiplicity of meanings, discussing literary performances, history, testimony, displacement, and the struggle for legitimacy.
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This book examines representations of Partition violence in narratives from Bengal. It explores how these stories of suffering, trauma, and betrayal offer a critique of historical and political engagements with one of the most traumatic periods in Indian history.
This book examines representations of Partition violence in narratives from Bengal. It explores how these stories of suffering, trauma, and betrayal offer a critique of historical and political engagements with one of the most traumatic periods in Indian history.
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This exploration of the Medea myth reveals how unresolved suffering turns to vengeance. Her tragic story became a touchstone for early twentieth-century female authors who used it to explore their own struggles with unrequited love, societal abandonment, and self-discovery.
This exploration of the Medea myth reveals how unresolved suffering turns to vengeance. Her tragic story became a touchstone for early twentieth-century female authors who used it to explore their own struggles with unrequited love, societal abandonment, and self-discovery.
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Retelling Cinderella
Cultural and Creative Transformations
This collection demonstrates how the Cinderella story remains active in societies adapting to modern culture. The volume explores dating apps, prom nights, women’s roles, and gender identity through international perspectives on folklore, film, fashion, and literature.
This collection demonstrates how the Cinderella story remains active in societies adapting to modern culture. The volume explores dating apps, prom nights, women’s roles, and gender identity through international perspectives on folklore, film, fashion, and literature.
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Literary Misogyny and Praise of Women in the Middle Ages
Commented Readings of Medieval Texts
This book examines two major traditions in medieval literature: the praise of women and misogyny. It explores misogyny from the Church Fathers to secular authors and discusses the major literary works that praised women as a response to their misogynist counterparts.
This book examines two major traditions in medieval literature: the praise of women and misogyny. It explores misogyny from the Church Fathers to secular authors and discusses the major literary works that praised women as a response to their misogynist counterparts.
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The Trojan War begins with one sacrifice, Iphigenia, and ends with another, Polyxena. In Greek tragedy, did these ritual killings restore cosmic balance, or did they only unleash greater chaos?
The Trojan War begins with one sacrifice, Iphigenia, and ends with another, Polyxena. In Greek tragedy, did these ritual killings restore cosmic balance, or did they only unleash greater chaos?
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This book explores history and Althusser's ideology in selected novels by Charles Dickens and Orhan Kemal. Their works reveal the historical and ideological background of their contexts, showing how English and Turkish literature reflect traces of contesting ideologies.
This book explores history and Althusser’s ideology in selected novels by Charles Dickens and Orhan Kemal. Their works reveal the historical and ideological background of their contexts, showing how English and Turkish literature reflect traces of contesting ideologies.
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Early British Comedy
A Critical Rethinking
This collection of sixteen British comedies from the 16th and 17th centuries includes everything from broad humour to heavy social satire. The analysis digs into each play’s embedded assumptions and social role, connecting the works to Elizabethan culture and our own time.
This collection of sixteen British comedies from the 16th and 17th centuries includes everything from broad humour to heavy social satire. The analysis digs into each play’s embedded assumptions and social role, connecting the works to Elizabethan culture and our own time.
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Political Religions in the Greco-Roman World
Discourses, Practices and Images
This volume explores the political side of ancient religion. Written by experts, its chapters engage the diversity of the Greco-Roman religious experience as it receives and negotiates power relations in the ancient Mediterranean from the 7th Century BCE to the 4th Century CE.
This volume explores the political side of ancient religion. Written by experts, its chapters engage the diversity of the Greco-Roman religious experience as it receives and negotiates power relations in the ancient Mediterranean from the 7th Century BCE to the 4th Century CE.
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Classics and Classicists
Selected Essays, 1964-2000
This panoramic collection of articles explores Greek and Roman literature and philosophy, from close textual readings to the modern legacy of ancient works. A vital resource for classical scholars, students of philosophy, and intellectual historians.
This panoramic collection of articles explores Greek and Roman literature and philosophy, from close textual readings to the modern legacy of ancient works. A vital resource for classical scholars, students of philosophy, and intellectual historians.
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This book examines the connection between mediaeval mystery plays and masonic traditions. It explores how both use symbolic characters, archetypes, stories, and rituals to convey moral and spiritual teachings, a link rooted in the stonemasons’ guilds that performed these dramas.
This book examines the connection between mediaeval mystery plays and masonic traditions. It explores how both use symbolic characters, archetypes, stories, and rituals to convey moral and spiritual teachings, a link rooted in the stonemasons’ guilds that performed these dramas.
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The Young Dante
Archetypes of His Early Intellectual Biography
This book explores Dante’s formative Florentine years, a crucible of great importance. Focusing on the Vita Nuova and early poems, it shows how the young poet took archetypes from ancient-medieval tradition and reshaped them to pave the way for his own work.
This book explores Dante’s formative Florentine years, a crucible of great importance. Focusing on the Vita Nuova and early poems, it shows how the young poet took archetypes from ancient-medieval tradition and reshaped them to pave the way for his own work.
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Plautus’ Erudite Comedy
New Insights into the Work of a doctus poeta
This collection of original essays examines the comedy of Plautus as a creative dialogue with contemporary culture. The studies explore his engagement with Greek literature, science, and philosophy, revealing his foundational influence on Latin literature.
This collection of original essays examines the comedy of Plautus as a creative dialogue with contemporary culture. The studies explore his engagement with Greek literature, science, and philosophy, revealing his foundational influence on Latin literature.
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German Representations of the Far North (17th-19th Centuries)
Writing the Arctic
German travellers, explorers, and scholars produced significant new knowledge about the Arctic from the 17th to the 19th century. This is the first English-language volume dedicated to their work, offering critical readings of travelogues, histories, and fiction.
German travellers, explorers, and scholars produced significant new knowledge about the Arctic from the 17th to the 19th century. This is the first English-language volume dedicated to their work, offering critical readings of travelogues, histories, and fiction.
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This selection of studies unites East and West, exploring space in literature, drama, and film. Through challenging analyses, the reader journeys into complementary cultures to discover how spatiality produces knowledge, and how reading itself becomes a form of owning space.
This selection of studies unites East and West, exploring space in literature, drama, and film. Through challenging analyses, the reader journeys into complementary cultures to discover how spatiality produces knowledge, and how reading itself becomes a form of owning space.
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