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Women and War in Roman Epic
In Women and War in Roman Epic, Elina Pyy discusses the narrative and ideological functions of gender in the works of Virgil, Lucan, Statius, Silius Italicus and Valerius Flaccus. By examining the themes of violence, death, guilt, grief, and anger in their epics, she offers an account of the intertextual tradition of the genre and its socio-political background. Through a combination of classic…
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- 9789004443457
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- 342 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- The Language of Classical Literature, Volume: 33
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Vernacular Books and Their Readers in the Early Age of Print (c. 1450–1600)
'The Open Access publishing costs of this volume were covered by the Dutch Research Council (NWO), Veni-project “Leaving a Lasting Impression. The Impact of Incunabula on Late Medieval Spirituality, Religious Practice and Visual Culture in the Low Countries” (grant number 275-30-036).' This volume explores various approaches to study vernacular books and reading practices across Europe in …
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- 9789004520158
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- 432 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Intersections, Volume: 85
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Time in Ancient Greek Literature = Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative, Volume 2
This is the second volume in a series of volumes which together will provide an entirely new history of ancient Greek (narrative) literature. Its organization is formal rather than biographical. It traces the history of central narrative devices, such as the narrator and his narratees,time, focalization, characterization, and space. It offers not only analyses of the handling of such a device b…
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- '9789047422938
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- 556 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Mnemosyne, Supplements, Volume: 291
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The Skandapurāṇa Volume IIb = Adhyāyas 31-52. The Vāhana and Naraka Cycles
Skandapurāṇa IIb presents a critical edition of Adhyāyas 31-52 from the Skandapurāṇa, with an introduction and English synopsis. The text edited in this volume includes central myths of early Śaivism, such as the destruction of Dakṣa's sacrifice and Śiva acquiring the bull for his vehicle. Also included is an extensive description of the thirteen hells (Naraka).
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- 9789004277137
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- 384 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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The School of Salamanca: A Case of Global Knowledge Production
Over the past few decades, a growing number of studies have highlighted the importance of the ‘School of Salamanca’ for the emergence of colonial normative regimes and the formation of a language of normativity on a global scale. According to this influential account, American and Asian actors usually appear as passive recipients of normative knowledge produced in Europe. This book proposes…
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- 9789004516441
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- 296 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Thomas Duve, José Luis Egío, and Christiane Birr
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The Poetics of Anti-Colonialism in the Arabic Qaṣīdah
Representing the most sustained investigation of the aesthetics of Anti-Colonialism in modern Arabic poetry, this book chronicles the evolution of a distinct poetics that sought to maintain the integrity of the qaṣīdah without circumventing its historical moment. It painstakingly analyses a selection of odes by four leading twentieth-century poets, Aḥmad Shawqī, Maʿrūf al-Ruṣāfī, Ba…
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- 9789047404408
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- 304 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures, Volume: 29
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The Newest Sappho: P. Sapph. Obbink and P. GC inv. 105, Frs. 1-4 = Studies in…
Retraction Notice: Postscript (March, 2021): The Publisher notifies the readers that Chapter 2 of this volume (Dirk Obbink, “Ten Poems of Sappho: Provenance, Authenticity, and Text of the New Sappho Papyri”) has been retracted. For more information please view the statement by the editors in the Retraction Notice in the front matter of this volume and on page 9 of the Introduction. The reas…
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- 9789004314832
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- 560 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Mnemosyne, Supplements, Volume: 392
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The Look of Lyric: Greek Song and the Visual = Studies in Archaic and Classic…
The Look of Lyric: Greek Song and the Visual addresses the various modes of interaction between ancient Greek lyric poetry and the visual arts as well as more general notions of visuality. It covers diverse poetic genres in a range of contexts radiating outwards from the original performance(s) to encompass their broader cultural settings, the later reception of the poems, and finally also thei…
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- 9789004314849
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- 404 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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- Mnemosyne, Supplements
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The Poetic Edda: A Dual-Language Edition
This book is an edition and translation of one of the most important and celebrated sources of Old Norse-Icelandic mythology and heroic legend, namely the medieval poems now known collectively as the Poetic Edda or Elder Edda. Included are thirty-six texts, which are mostly preserved in medieval manuscripts, especially the thirteenth-century Icelandic codex traditionally known as the Codex Regi…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781800647725, 9781800647732
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- 894
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- 801 PET p
The Cosmic Web: Scientific Field Models and Literary Strategies in the Twenti…
From the central concept of the field—which depicts the world as a mutually interactive whole, with each part connected to every other part by an underlying field— have come models as diverse as quantum mathematics and Saussure’s theory of language. In The Cosmic Web, N. Katherine Hayles seeks to establish the scope of the field concept and to assess its importance for contemporary though…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781501722974, 9781501727931
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- 210
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- 530.143 HAY c
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