Anger in the Long Nineteenth Century
This collection traverses anger studies from the Classical age to the present day. The book illustrates how literature documents and even institutionalizes primal, emotive outbursts, with analysis of works ranging from Aristotle and Seneca to Edgar Allan Poe and Emily Bronte.
Literature and the Japanese War of Aggression against China
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 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 comprehensive study of John Gardner’s Grendel shows the novel to be much more than an ironic twist on Beowulf. It reveals three distinct fights that mirror the poem, solving mysteries that have stymied readers and assessing Grendel as a tragic hero.
Greek Lyric Poetry and Its Influence
Composed 25 centuries ago, Greek lyric poems sing of everyday life, presenting a living portrait of the ancient Greeks. This multidisciplinary volume offers literary analyses, studies the poems’ reflection in Greek art, and explores their connection to music and modern cinema.
Catalogues of Proper Names in Latin Epic Poetry
This book explores the poetic catalogue from Homer to Ovid. It examines how internal structural patterns and external framing devices evolved, contrasting Virgil’s supportive function with Lucretius’s subversion and Ovid’s sophisticated innovations.
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.
Reading Old English Riddles
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.
Global Literary Criticism
Discover the surprising dialogue between East and West. This uplifting book reveals a history of mutual influence, from the common ground of Confucius and Socrates to China’s unexpected impact on Western thinkers like Nietzsche and T.S. Eliot.
Shota Rustaveli’s The Knight in the Panther’s Skin organically unites the cultural traditions of the Christian West and Muslim East. This book conducts comparative research, showing the similarities and differences between the works of Rustaveli and Nizami Ganjavi.
Vergil’s Eclogues
In his Eclogues, Vergil introduced the pastoral genre to Latin literature. This book shows his dialogue with the earlier Greek and Latin tradition is not merely typical of his time, but a dynamic literary method used to define the character of each poem.
This essay collection explores inconsistency in the major Latin epics of the Flavian Age. Leading experts demonstrate that inconsistency is often a strategic device, and its careful study yields precious insights into the poets’ artistic, thematic, and ideological agendas.
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 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.
P. Ovidius Naso, The Heroides
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.
P. Papinius Statius Volume I
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.
P. Papinius Statius Volume II
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.
Ancient genres were contested, hybrid and ambiguous. This volume presents case studies on understandings of genre, examining well-known texts like Ovid and late-antique works from Rome and Greece to Gaza and Syria.
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.
Secretis bene uiuere siluis
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.