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In den Thukydidesscholien mittelalterlicher griechischer Handschriften sind die Reste der wertvollen antiken und byzantischen Wort- und Texterklärungen zum schwierigen Thukydidestext überliefert. Die letzte, für ihre Zeit sehr verdienstvolle, Ausgabe...

In der 1968 gegründeten Reihe erscheinen Monographien aus den Gebieten der Griechischen und Lateinischen Philologie sowie der Alten Geschichte. Die Bände weisen eine große Vielzahl von Themen auf: neben sprachlichen, textkritischen oder...

WORK IS IN FRENCHThis book is a reproduction of a work published before 1920 and is part of a collection of books reprinted and edited by Hachette Livre, in the framework of a partnership with the National Library of France, providing the opportunity to...

With essays by Eileen A. Joy, Mary K. Ramsey, Edward Said, Claire Sponsler, Nicholas Howe, Allen J. Frantzen, John D. Niles, John Moreland, Alfred K. Siewers, James W. Earl, Janet Thormann, John M. Hill, Jeffrey J. Cohen, Carol J. Clover, Clare A. Lees,...

SIR PHILIP SIDNEY: ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: ELIZABETHAN SONNET CYCLE Sir Philip Sidney's 'Astrophel and Stella' is one of the major Elizabethan sonnet sequences, reprinted here in an attractive new edition. 'Astrophel and Stella' is a sonnet cycle of...

The main focus of interest in this book are the figures of writers and writing subjects in Rushdie's oeuvre who contemplate and reflect on the nature and purpose of their craft, their authorial identity and their positioning in society and...

This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame...

Post-Blackness. Post-Soul. Post-Black Art. New Blackness. How has the meaning of blackness changed in the twenty-first century? Cameron Leader-Picone suggests that this proliferation of terms, along with the renewed focus on questioning the relationship...

This early work by G. K. Chesterton was originally published in 1912. Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in London in 1874. He studied at the Slade School of Art, and upon graduating began to work as a freelance journalist. Over the course of his life,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the...

Das Buch ""Die Edessenische Abgarsage Auf Ihre Fortbildung Untersucht"" von Matthes, K. C. A. wurde im Jahr 1882 ver������ffentlicht. Es handelt sich um eine Untersuchung der Geschichte des ""Edessenischen Abgars"", einer Legende �����ber den syrischen...

Die Deutschen Volkslieder Vom Doktor Faust (1890) ist ein Buch des deutschen Schriftstellers Alexander Tille. Das Buch enth�����lt eine Sammlung von Volksliedern, die sich auf die bekannte Legende des Doktor Faustus beziehen. Die Lieder erz�����hlen von...

Das Buch ""Die Delphischen Hymnen: Untersuchungen �����ber Texte und Melodien"" wurde im Jahr 1894 von Otto Crusius ver������ffentlicht. Es handelt sich um eine umfassende Untersuchung der antiken griechischen Hymnen, die am Orakel von Delphi gesungen...

Das Buch ""Die Definition des Satzes: Nach den platonischen Dialogen Kratylus, Theaetet, Sophistes (1882)"" von Karl Uphues besch�����ftigt sich mit der Frage nach der Definition des Satzes in den platonischen Dialogen. Dabei werden insbesondere die...

Das Buch ""Die Construction Der Nebensatze Im Oxforder Texte Des Altfranzosischen Rolandsliedes (1884)"" von Otto Riecke befasst sich mit der Grammatik des Altfranz������sischen und insbesondere mit der Konstruktion von Nebens�����tzen im Oxforder Text...

""Die Chronik des Regino bis 813: Eine Quellenuntersuchung"" ist ein Buch von Hubert Ermisch, das im Jahr 1872 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Es handelt sich um eine Untersuchung der Quellen, die in der Chronik des Regino von Pr�����m enthalten sind, die die...

From Theocritus' Idylls to James Cameron's Avatar, Arcadia remains an enduring presence in world culture and a persistent source of creative inspiration. Why does Arcadia still exercise such a powerful pull on the imagination? This book responds by...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

No Place in Time: The Hebraic Myth in Late-Nineteenth-Century American Literature examines how the Hebraic myth, in which Jewishness became a metaphor for an ancient, pre-Christian past, was reimagined in nineteenth-century American realism. The Hebraic...

Re-Orienting the Fairy Tale: Contemporary Adaptations across Cultures seeks to "re-orient" the fairy tale across different cultures, media, and disciplines and proposes new approaches to the ever-expanding fairy-tale web in a global context...

Norse mythology is obsessed with the idea of an onrushing and unstoppable apocalypse: Ragnarok, when the whole of creation will perish in fire, smoke, and darkness and the earth will nolonger support the life it once nurtured. Most of the Old Norse texts...

This book offers the first critical edition of the forty short texts James Joyce called “epiphanies.” Presenting the texts with background information and thorough annotations, this edition provides a vivid insight into Joyce’s art.

This innovative analysis shows how James Joyce uses the language of prayer to grapple with intangible things in his dreamlike masterpiece Finnegans Wake. Colleen Jaurretche moves beyond what scholars know about how Joyce wrote this work to suggest...

The Art of The Faerie Queene offers a new approach to Spenser's massive Elizabethan epic, presenting it is as a formally radical and innovative text. Where previous criticism has presented Spenser as a conservative technician, this book explores his...

This volume examines and theorizes the oft-ignored phenomenon of male-to-female (MTF) crossdressing in early modern drama, prose, and poetry, inviting MTF crossdressing episodes to take a fuller place alongside instances of female-to-male crossdressing...

Studies on the aesthetic representations of atrocity the world over have taken different discursive dimensions from history, sociology, political to human rights. These perspectives are usually geared towards understanding the manifestations, extent,...

Origin and Ellipsis in the Writing of Hilary Mantel provokes a re-engagement with Derrida's thinking in contemporary literature, with particular emphasis on the philosopher's preoccupation with the process of writing. This is the first book-length study...

Contemporary Native Fiction: Toward a Narrative Poetics of Survivance analyzes paradigmatic works of contemporary Native American/First Nations literary fiction using the tools of narrative theory. Each chapter is read through the lens of a narrative...

Analyzing Shakespeare's views on theatre and magic and John Dee's concerns with philosophy and magic in the light of the Italian version of philosophia perennis (mainly Marsilio Ficino, Pico della Mirandola and Giordano Bruno), this book offers a new...

The first full-length study of the reception of John Milton's (1608-74) writings in the Arab-Muslim world, this book examines the responses of Arab-Muslim readers to Milton's works, and in particular, to his epic poem: Paradise Lost. It contributes to...

This volume addresses dealings with the wondrous, magical, holy, sacred, sainted, numinous, uncanny, auratic, and sacral in the plays of Shakespeare and contemporaries, produced in an era often associated with the irresistible rise of a thinned-out...

Addressing the Victorian obsession with the sordid materiality of modern life, this book studies dirt in nineteenth-century English literature and the Victorian cultural imagination. Dirt litters Victorian writing - industrial novels, literature about...

Focusing on early Renaissance Franco-Ottoman relations, this book fills a gap in studies of Ottoman representations by early modern European powers by addressing the Franco-Ottoman bond. In French Encounters with the Ottomans, Pascale Barthe examines the...

What is the role of disgust or revulsion in early modern English literature? How did early modern English subjects experience revulsion and how did writers represent it in poetry, plays, and prose? What does it mean when literature instructs, delights,...

Disciplinary Measures from the Metrical Psalms to Milton studies the relationship between English poetry and church discipline in four carefully chosen bodies of poetry written between the Reformation and the death of John Milton. Its primary goal is to...

Tracing the rise of conduct literature and the didactic novel over the course of the eighteenth century, this book explores how British women used the didactic novel genre to engage in political debate during and immediately after the French Revolution...

This study explores the ways in which Dickens's published work and his thousands of letters intersect, to shape and promote particular myths of the reading experience, as well as redefining the status of the writer. It shows that the boundaries between...

A fundamental reappraisal of Plutarch's attitude towards rhetoric.Plutarch was not only a skilled writer, but also lived during the Second Sophistic, a period of cultural renaissance. This book offers new insights into Plutarch's seemingly moderate...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2017 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Literaturgeschichte, Epochen, Note: 3,0, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die folgende Arbeit handelt von den zwei verschiedenen Antike-Rezeptionen von Winckelmann und...

Masterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2017 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Ältere Deutsche Literatur, Mediävistik, Note: 1,3, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel (Institut für Ältere Deutsche Literatur), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Frage nach einem...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Ältere Deutsche Literatur, Mediävistik, Note: 2,3, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) (Germanistik), Veranstaltung: Althochdeutsche Literatur, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit...

Masterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2018 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Literaturgeschichte, Epochen, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit hat sich zum Ziel genommen anhand des Primärtextes „Der Luftangriff auf Halberstadt am 8. April...