Literary studies: general Books

Within the frame of the sub-series Athenian Dialogues, this volume comprises a selected number of talks delivered at the annual Seminar of the Research Centre for Greek and Latin Literature of the Academy of Athens 2018-2019 on the broad topic of Ancient...

Cicero has played a pivotal role in shaping Western culture. His public persona, his self-portrait as model of Roman prose, philosopher, and statesman, has exerted a durable and profound impact on the educational system and the formation of the ruling...

Chance, in addition to the unavoidable ambiguity caused by time, is one of the main guilty parties in the transmission of ancient texts - or lack thereof. However, the same cannot be said for what concerns the mechanisms of selection and loss of...

"What to make of the British?" is a question that puzzled Stendhal throughout his whole life. In this new work, which is both a biography and an exercise in cultural history, David Ellis brings to bear on the issues it raises much new and unfamiliar...

Epidicus, a light-hearted comedy by Plautus about the machinations of a trickster slave and the inadequacies of his bumbling masters, appears here in both its original Latin and a sparkling new translation by Catherine Tracy. Epidicus, the cunning slave,...

In today’s discussions of religious difference and intolerance, the Middle Ages are often presented as a time of fixed racial, religious, and cultural identities, especially as regards the East and Islam. Representations of Saracens, however, show...

Throughout the centuries, the Italian peninsula has played an important role as a crossroads where different cultures met, transformed and continued their journeys. This volume retraces some of these crossings, in the fields of literature, architecture...

Four centuries after his death in 1616, Cervantes’s great novel (the first novel), Don Quixote (1605; 1615), continues to fascinate readers and generate debate about key questions. Were the efforts of the deluded hidalgo and his corpulent squire to...

From rubbery martyrs to wraith-like ascetics, and from pestilential dragons to troublesome giants, the bodies that fascinated audiences of saints' lives during the Middle Ages increasingly inform theoretical debates in medieval studies concerning...

Casanova, Stendhal, Tolstoy: Adepts in Self-Portraiture, the final volume of Stefan Zweig's masterful Master Builders of the Spirit trilogy, discloses the smaller version of a writer's own ego. Unconscious though it is, no reality is as important to the...

Enric Valor is one of the most important Valencian authors of the 20th century. This selection of his highly popular rondalles (folk tales) will for the first time introduce his work to an English-speaking audience. At a time when Catalan was under...

Our Henry James in Fiction, Film, and Popular Culture addresses the interesting revival of Henry James's works in Anglo-American film adaptations and contemporary fiction from the 1960s to the present. James's fiction is generally considered difficult...

This book engages with the critical decline of postmodernism and newer currents of thinking that have come to the fore, including postcolonialism, feminism, and cultural studies, constituting an exploration of the cultural landscape after the heyday of...

Gender, Crime, and Murder in Victorian England seeks to provide a comprehensive examination of the notorious Manning's 'Bermondsey murder', and its wider implications in Victorian criminal narrative and popular culture.

This book specialists from different literary and filmic studies explore the conflicting theoretical grounds that characterize the ontology of vulnerability as either a state of passivity, victimhood, and helplessness and/or as forms of human and...

This manuscript argues for the importance of Günter Grass as a political thinker in addition to his status as a novelist and public intellectual, capable of forming ethical responses to contemporary issues like neoliberalism and place of the petit...

The history of Baghdad in the 18th and 19th centuries had predominantly been written by two groups. The first group is Baghdadi scholars, and the second group is travellers. These two resources complement each other; while the literature of Baghdadi...

John Van Buren's 'Travel journal for a trip to Europe, 1838-1839' is a record of the a year he spent in England, Scotland, Ireland, Belgium and Holland, primarily for his father, Martin Van Buren, the 8th President of the United States. A fly-on-the-wall...

This Latin book presents a collection of notes and comments on Ovid's Heroides and the elegy of Albinovanus. A must-read for students and scholars of Latin literature.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of...

Guiot von Provins was one of the most important poets of the medieval period, and this book offers a comprehensive guide to his life and work. Baudler's detailed analysis of Guiot's poetry sheds light on the cultural and intellectual currents that...

This edition of John Lydgate's classic poem, Horse, Goose, and Sheep, is a must-read for scholars of medieval literature. Originally written in the late fourteenth century, the poem tells the story of three animals who set out on a pilgrimage to find the...

This classic journal is a must-read for anyone interested in the study of ancient Greek and Latin languages and literatures. Features include articles, reviews, and critical essays by leading scholars in the field.This work has been selected by scholars...

A collection of essays on the works and legacy of the Hellenistic poet Callimachus, featuring contributions from leading scholars in the field. With its detailed analysis and new insights into Callimachus' poetry, this book is an essential resource for...

Ce livre est une étude approfondie de la poésie lyrique grecque, depuis les poètes archaïques comme Alcée et Anacréon jusqu'à Pindare et Bacchylide. Eugène Nageotte explore l'évolution de la poésie lyrique grecque, ainsi que son rôle dans la société...

The Epic Cycle was a collection of eight poems that recounted the stories of the Trojan War, including the Iliad and the Odyssey. Unfortunately, the poems themselves have been lost to time, surviving only through fragments and references in later...

Heinrich Rehrmann's Essay Concerning Anglo-Saxon Poetry is a comprehensive study of the genre, drawing on historical, linguistic, and literary sources. From the epic tales of Beowulf to the elegiac lyrics of The Wanderer, Rehrmann offers insightful...

De Cruquii Codice Vetustissimo is a fascinating study of the medieval manuscript, its provenance and provenience. Filled with meticulous research, this book is an important contribution to the history of medieval Europe.This work has been selected by...

Dieses Buch gibt einen Einblick in das Leben und Werk des Dichters Nonnos von Panopolis. Hierbei geht es um die Entstehung der griechischen Poesie und ihre Bedeutung für die Kultur. Sergej S. Uvarov zeigt, wie Nonnos von Panopolis die Dichtkunst...

Une édition complète et annotée de l'œuvre la plus célèbre de Dante, La Divine Comédie. L'ouvrage comprend également une étude approfondie sur l'histoire et le contexte de l'œuvre, ainsi que des commentaires pour aider les lecteurs à naviguer dans ce...

Dieses Werk ist ein Klassiker der Literaturgeschichte. Es bietet einen umfassenden Überblick über die griechische Literatur von ihren Anfängen bis zum Zeitalter Alexanders. Der Fokus liegt dabei insbesondere auf den großen epischen Werken wie den...

The Chronicle of Pierre de Langtoft in French Verse, from the Earliest Period to the Death of King Edward I is a historical work translated and edited by Thomas Wright. The book chronicles the early history of England, from the arrival of the Saxons to...

Consumption and the Literary Cookbook offers readers the first book-length study of literary cookbooks. Imagining the genre more broadly to include narratives laden with recipes, cookbooks based on cultural productions including films, plays, and...

The Embodied Child: Readings in Children's Literature and Culture brings together essays that offer compelling analyses of children's bodies as they read and are read, as they interact with literature and other cultural artifacts, and as they are...

This book examines textual representations of Africa in the Bengali nationalist and diasporic thought from 1928 to 1973.

Originally published in 1990 by Routledge, Dictionary of Riddles is a collection of nearly 1500 of the most cryptic and entertaining riddles from history. Drawn from sources throughout the world, the collection ranges from earthy medieval jokes about...

In this graceful, deeply learned book Steven Chase takes readers on a contemplative and theological journey into the angelic wisdom at the heart of the symbol of the cherubim. Providing the guiding hand for this journey is Richard of St. Victor whose...

Introduction: Virgin Reading, Possible Worlds Theory, and the Odyssean Intertext of Ulysses PART I: STEPHEN DEDALUS The Conflicts of Stephen Dedalus: From the "Telemachiad" to "Aeolus" The Stakes of Stephen's Gambit: "Scylla and...

Is it possible to be a citizen of the world? Cosmopolitan thought has been at the center of recent debates surrounding human rights, legal obligations, international relations and political responsibility. Most of these debates trace their origins to the...

Geoffrey Chaucer aimed his ethical critique and social satire at human failures to acknowledge guilt and their self-defensive use of shame. Shame and Guilt in Chaucer explores Chaucer's representation of these concepts in the context of modern affect...

Drawing from an eclectic mix of scholars from the US, UK, and Australia, Medieval Afterlives in Popular Culture examines the persistence of medieval themes, characters, and situations in a variety of media from reality television to Virginia Woolf,...

The plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries continue to inspire fresh interpretations in every genre and medium. Reinventing the Renaissance: Shakespeare and his Contemporaries in Adaptation and Performance offers new perspectives on the ways in...

Contextualizing the topos of the neglected child within a variety of discourses, this book challenges the assumption that the early nineteenth century witnessed a clear transition from a Puritan to a liberating approach to children and demonstrates that...