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From twelve years of producing ancient plays for contemporary audiences, these translations of Sophocles and Euripides are accessible and speakable. They maintain the poetry of tragedy without being archaic, accompanied by essays on drama, irony, and emotion.
From twelve years of producing ancient plays for contemporary audiences, these translations of Sophocles and Euripides are accessible and speakable. They maintain the poetry of tragedy without being archaic, accompanied by essays on drama, irony, and emotion.
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This collection explores how traditions shape society through movies, music, and literature. It reveals connections between culture and media that simplify our understanding of humanity, offering a guide to the evolving dimensions of African literature and popular culture.
This collection explores how traditions shape society through movies, music, and literature. It reveals connections between culture and media that simplify our understanding of humanity, offering a guide to the evolving dimensions of African literature and popular culture.
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Literature and the Japanese War of Aggression against China
Investigations and Criticisms
This book defines “Invasion Literature,” revealing the pivotal role of Japanese writing in the war against China. It traces the genre’s origins, key authors, and post-war legacy, giving vital attention to powerful but long-neglected literary works.
This book defines “Invasion Literature,” revealing the pivotal role of Japanese writing in the war against China. It traces the genre’s origins, key authors, and post-war legacy, giving vital attention to powerful but long-neglected literary works.
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Mobilizing Narratives
Narrating Injustices of (Im)Mobility
In a world defined by forced migration, who is free to move and who is not? This volume uncovers the injustices of (im)mobility—driven by war, climate change, and inequality—as powerfully represented in literary texts.
In a world defined by forced migration, who is free to move and who is not? This volume uncovers the injustices of (im)mobility—driven by war, climate change, and inequality—as powerfully represented in literary texts.
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New Thoughts on Old Books
Why Read Homer, Milton, or a Medieval Nun at a Time like This?
Why continue reading “classic” texts today? This book is not a defense of the literary canon. Instead, professors of English offer thoughtful, engaging, personal responses, inviting readers to revisit “old assignments” in new terms.
Why continue reading “classic” texts today? This book is not a defense of the literary canon. Instead, professors of English offer thoughtful, engaging, personal responses, inviting readers to revisit “old assignments” in new terms.
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Ovid's Heroides gives voice to mythical heroines in letters to their absent lovers. This groundbreaking volume offers the first-ever databank of medieval readings and modern conjectures, an essential resource for understanding how the poems' texts were established.
Ovid’s Heroides gives voice to mythical heroines in letters to their absent lovers. This groundbreaking volume offers the first-ever databank of medieval readings and modern conjectures, an essential resource for understanding how the poems’ texts were established.
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Ovid's Heroides, or Letters of Heroines, is a collection of fictional letters from heroines to their absent lovers. This volume offers an essential databank for the final six poems: the three pairs of letters. It is arranged as an enlarged critical apparatus for the text.
Ovid’s Heroides, or Letters of Heroines, is a collection of fictional letters from heroines to their absent lovers. This volume offers an essential databank for the final six poems: the three pairs of letters. It is arranged as an enlarged critical apparatus for the text.
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Ovid's Heroides are fictional letters from heroines to their absent lovers. This unique volume presents a comprehensive collection of all medieval and renaissance manuscript readings for poems 9-15, vital for understanding how the established text was created.
Ovid’s Heroides are fictional letters from heroines to their absent lovers. This unique volume presents a comprehensive collection of all medieval and renaissance manuscript readings for poems 9-15, vital for understanding how the established text was created.
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P. Ovidius Naso, The Heroides
Text and Translation
Ovid's Heroides is a collection of fictional letters from heroines to their absent lovers. This volume presents a radically new text and translation of the collection, separating the original core from later accretions. The translation is designed to aid interpretation.
Ovid’s Heroides is a collection of fictional letters from heroines to their absent lovers. This volume presents a radically new text and translation of the collection, separating the original core from later accretions. The translation is designed to aid interpretation.
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P. Papinius Statius
Thebaid and Achilleid Volume III
Volume III on Statius' Thebaid and Achilleid is divided into two parts. The first discusses the textual transmission, manuscripts, and editions. The second part comprises a secondary apparatus with further evidence and all unrecorded conjectures.
Volume III on Statius’ Thebaid and Achilleid is divided into two parts. The first discusses the textual transmission, manuscripts, and editions. The second part comprises a secondary apparatus with further evidence and all unrecorded conjectures.
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P. Papinius Statius Volume I
Thebaid and Achilleid
This three-volume work offers a revised text, prose translation, and extensive secondary apparatus for the two epics of Statius: his magnum opus, the Thebaid, and the unfinished Achilleid.
This three-volume work offers a revised text, prose translation, and extensive secondary apparatus for the two epics of Statius: his magnum opus, the Thebaid, and the unfinished Achilleid.
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P. Papinius Statius Volume II
Thebaid and Achilleid
This three-volume work offers a revised text, prose translation, and extensive commentary for the two epics of Statius: his magnum opus, the Thebaid, and the Achilleid, which was left unfinished at his death.
This three-volume work offers a revised text, prose translation, and extensive commentary for the two epics of Statius: his magnum opus, the Thebaid, and the Achilleid, which was left unfinished at his death.
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This volume explores the confluences between post-modernism and post-colonialism. It examines their shared challenge to Eurocentric master narratives, sheds light on the East-West relation, and questions Western modes of representation in literary and cultural works.
This volume explores the confluences between post-modernism and post-colonialism. It examines their shared challenge to Eurocentric master narratives, sheds light on the East-West relation, and questions Western modes of representation in literary and cultural works.
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Reading Old English Riddles
The Dark Glass
The riddles of the Exeter Book are designed to intrigue, baffle, and entertain. Ranging from the learned to the vulgar, the devotional to the existential, they are a powerful part of the Old English poetic tradition. This book presents them in modern English verse translations.
The riddles of the Exeter Book are designed to intrigue, baffle, and entertain. Ranging from the learned to the vulgar, the devotional to the existential, they are a powerful part of the Old English poetic tradition. This book presents them in modern English verse translations.
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Reading Old English Wisdom
The Fetters in the Frost
This book translates and comments on a selection of superb Old English wisdom poems. Composed from the ninth to eleventh centuries, they mingle Christian beliefs with pre-Christian sensibilities, exploring how the human psyche responds to life's challenges.
This book translates and comments on a selection of superb Old English wisdom poems. Composed from the ninth to eleventh centuries, they mingle Christian beliefs with pre-Christian sensibilities, exploring how the human psyche responds to life’s challenges.
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Rhianus of Crete, Hellenistic Poet and Grammarian
Introduction, Text, Translation and Commentary
This edition of the poetic and grammatical fragments of Rhianus of Crete analyzes his work in the sociopolitical environment following Alexander the Great. It highlights the connection between historical events and poetic expression, showcasing the nuances of Hellenistic poetry.
This edition of the poetic and grammatical fragments of Rhianus of Crete analyzes his work in the sociopolitical environment following Alexander the Great. It highlights the connection between historical events and poetic expression, showcasing the nuances of Hellenistic poetry.
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Secretis bene uiuere siluis
Studies in Latin Literature in Honour of Robert Maltby
Honoring Robert Maltby, this rich collection of scholarship covers Latin literature from Augustan times to the Renaissance. It offers fresh interpretations of texts, with special focus on the Corpus Tibullianum, etymology, and textual criticism. For classicists and beyond.
Honoring Robert Maltby, this rich collection of scholarship covers Latin literature from Augustan times to the Renaissance. It offers fresh interpretations of texts, with special focus on the Corpus Tibullianum, etymology, and textual criticism. For classicists and beyond.
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Studies and Essays on Romance Literatures
A Labyrinth of Interpretations
This collection of essays is a journey into 20th-century masterpieces. From Pessoa to García Márquez, these studies re-read famous works of Romance literature to highlight their deep and hidden truths, metaphorically bridging the two sides of the Atlantic.
This collection of essays is a journey into 20th-century masterpieces. From Pessoa to García Márquez, these studies re-read famous works of Romance literature to highlight their deep and hidden truths, metaphorically bridging the two sides of the Atlantic.
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This collection explores “post-narratology,” rethinking classical narratology in relation to ethnicity, culture, history, and religion. Notions of plot, voice, and character are stretched and modified to fit the cultural contexts of contemporary works in various fields.
This collection explores “post-narratology,” rethinking classical narratology in relation to ethnicity, culture, history, and religion. Notions of plot, voice, and character are stretched and modified to fit the cultural contexts of contemporary works in various fields.
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The Graveyard in Literature
Liminality and Social Critique
This volume explores how cultural texts use the graveyard as a liminal space to challenge social values and articulate new perspectives. Immersed between life and death, where traditional certainties are suspended, new models for human interaction can be formulated.
This volume explores how cultural texts use the graveyard as a liminal space to challenge social values and articulate new perspectives. Immersed between life and death, where traditional certainties are suspended, new models for human interaction can be formulated.
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