Classics – Page 2 – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Genre Studies in Focus

Transgression or Reconciliation

Edited By: Faten Haouioui, Hajer Ayadi

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This collection of essays revises genre theory, exploring literary genres in transition. Adopting a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approach, contributors investigate genre hybridization and evolution, showing that genres are inherently hybrid and flexible.

A New Translation of the Novellino of Masuccio Salernitano

By: Christopher Stace

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So fiercely anti-clerical it was placed on the Index of Prohibited Books, this 15th-century Italian collection is a landmark of short fiction. Its tales of murder, incest, and ingenious adultery are by turns grim, comic, tragic, and erotic.

A. D. Hope and the Ambivalence of Modernity

Reconsiderations

Edited By: A. D. Cousins, Dani Napton

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How did A. D. Hope react to modernity? What did he prize, what did he dislike, and how did he make use even of what he disliked? This book offers fresh answers to such questions from some of Australia's best-known scholars.

Voices of Sanskrit Poets

A Fresh Look at the Classics

By: GRK Murty

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Is Vālmīki’s Sīta a feminist archetype? Is infidelity a virtue? This book offers a fresh perspective on Sanskrit literature for the modern reader, juxtaposing the heroism of Achilles and Rāma and exploring the power of love through Cordelia and Śakuntala.

Travel Writing and Environmental Awareness

Edited By: Françoise Besson

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Travel writing can guide our connection with the nonhuman world. This collection of essays by international writers explores sustainable travel and our bond with nature. Encompassing diverse genres, it is for all interested in travel, ecology, and the philosophy of place.

Evidence and Proof in Ancient Greece

Edited By: Chris Carey, Mike Edwards, Brenda Griffith-Williams

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To persuade, you need proof. But what counts as satisfactory proof varies by culture and context. This volume assembles experts to address the theme of proof in ancient Greek literature, from the lawcourts to drama and historiography, with a focus on the Athenian orators.

Arctic Modernities

The Environmental, the Exotic and the Everyday

Edited By: Heidi Hansson, Anka Ryall

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The modern Arctic is more than melting glaciers; it's a mix of indigenous tradition and a mundane everyday. This volume examines how heroic images continue to shape our view of the region: as a utopian future, a symbol of modernity, or a mythic, nostalgic past.

The modern Arctic is more than melting glaciers; it’s a mix of indigenous tradition and a mundane everyday. This volume examines how heroic images continue to shape our view of the region: as a utopian future, a symbol of modernity, or a mythic, nostalgic past.

The Classical Tradition in Portuguese and Brazilian Poetry

Edited By: Maria de Fátima Silva, Lorna Hardwick, Susana Marques Pereira

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This book studies contemporary Portuguese and Brazilian poets influenced by the Greco-Roman tradition. The comparison between poets from the two countries highlights the cultural community that unites them through the common theme of travels, routes, and symbolic adventures.

The Intertextuality and Intermediality of the Anglophone Popular Song

By: Michael Ingham

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This book investigates what songwriters read before they start singing. It explores the complex intertextual connections between popular songs and literary works, showing how lyrics adapt material from sources like poems, novels, plays, films, the Bible, and Shakespeare.

Love, Friendship, and Expediency in Cicero’s Letters

By: Gabriel Evangelou

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Cicero was one of Epicurus’ most fervent critics. This book challenges that conventional view, arguing that despite his anti-Epicurean statements, personal benefit played a vital role in his relationships, even with his family, in accord with the very philosophy he rejected.

Post-Millennial Perceptions and Post-Pandemic Realities

Living Dystopian

Edited By: Pradipta Mukherjee

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Even in dystopia, mundane life becomes life-giving. This book attests to human resilience, where the darkest images yield the sweetness of hope. A frontier document on Covid-19, its stellar contributors explore art, medicine, economics, and history with tenacity and awe.

Myth-Making in Aristophanes Innovation and Evolution in Attic Comedy

By: Effie Zagari

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This book focuses on four fragmentary plays by Aristophanes which present characteristics not prominent in his extant work. As mythological comedies and parodies of tragedy, they exhibit elements of Middle and New Comedy, offering new insights into his influential innovations.

Critical Coalitions

Literary Aesthetics and Beyond

Edited By: Rimika Singhvi, Gunja Patni

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Explore the dynamic interplay of literature and contemporary themes like postcoloniality, gender, and new media. Combining scholarly dialogue, no-holds-barred interviews, and poignant poetry, this book offers fresh perspectives on culture, identity, and representation.

Structure, Commentary, and Culture in Ancient Greek Drama

By: Frederic Will

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This book explores the works of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes. It considers their principal characters, their motivations, and what their legacies mean to us today, revealing the enduring influence of Classical Greek drama on modern culture.

Aspects of Orality and Greek Literature in the Roman Empire

Edited By: Consuelo Ruiz-Montero

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This volume explores how Greek texts circulated during the Roman Empire from both a literary and sociocultural point of view. Illuminating the interconnections between literary and social practices, these studies draw attention to under-researched texts and inscriptions.

Aspects of Time and Memory in Literature for Children and Young Adults

Mnemosyne for Children

Edited By: Tzina Kalogirou, Dorota Michulka

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A critical exploration of time and memory in children's media. Spanning three centuries, these essays analyze traumatic memory, post-memory, and the reimagining of the past in picturebooks, YA novels, films, and adaptations of classic fairy tales.

A critical exploration of time and memory in children’s media. Spanning three centuries, these essays analyze traumatic memory, post-memory, and the reimagining of the past in picturebooks, YA novels, films, and adaptations of classic fairy tales.

The Children of Herodotus

Greek and Roman Historiography and Related Genres

Edited By: Jakub Pigoń

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This collection of essays by international scholars responds to a growing interest in ancient historiography. The volume focuses on historians' methods of approaching the non-Greek world and the political dimension of Roman imperial historiography.

This collection of essays by international scholars responds to a growing interest in ancient historiography. The volume focuses on historians’ methods of approaching the non-Greek world and the political dimension of Roman imperial historiography.

Incorporeal Heroes

The Origins of Homeric Images

By: Leo S. Klejn

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The heroes of the Iliad were not historical figures or artistic creations. They originated as local cult heroes, like saints, with no connection to the Trojan War. This book reveals the sequence in which figures like Achilles were stitched into the epic.

Zero to Hero, Hero to Zero

In Search of the Classical Hero

Edited By: Lydia Langerwerf, Cressida Ryan

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What makes a hero? This book challenges standard expectations, exploring the phenomenon of heroism from a range of viewpoints and asking why heroic qualities so often turn sour. Covering Euripides to Monty Python, it examines the changing notion of the hero.

Performative Plautus

Sophistics, Metatheater and Translation

By: Rodrigo Tadeu Gonçalves

£41.99

Containing a foreword and preface by Barbara Cassin and Florence Dupont, this book provides a theoretical and philosophical framework for the analysis of Plautus within a performative and philosophical perspective on language and theatrical performance.