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Cambridge University Press Fictions of Identity in Medieval France
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Cambridge University Press The Early History of Greed
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Cambridge University Press Human Vices and Human Worth in Dantes Comedy
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Cambridge University Press Virgil in Medieval England
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Cambridge University Press Floire and Blancheflor and the European Romance
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Cambridge University Press Wisdom Authority and Grammar in the Seventh Century
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Cambridge University Press Vernacular Literary Theory in the Middle Ages
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Cambridge University Press Reconsidering Tu Fu
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Cambridge University Press Literature and Society in Renaissance Crete
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Cambridge University Press Perception and Passion in Dantes Comedy
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Cambridge University Press Fighting for Rome
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Cambridge University Press Religion Learning and Science in the Abbasid Period
Book SynopsisThis volume of The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature deals with writings on learned subjects from the 'Abbasid period (eighth to thirteenth centures AD), the golden age of Arabic literature. These range from philosophy, theology, and law, through grammar and lexicography, to mathematics, astronomy and medicine.Table of ContentsList of plates; Editorial preface; List of abbreviations; Map; 1. Sunni theology Salvador Gómez Nogales; 2. Shi'i theological literature I. K. A. Howard; 3. Ibadi theological literature J. C. Wilkinson; 4. Quranic exegesis John Burton; 5. The prose literature of Sufism Caesar E. Farah; 6. Philosophical literature Muhsin Mahdi; 7. Arabic lexicography M. G. Carter; 8. Arabic grammar M. G. Carter; 9. Islamic legal literature P. W. Baker and I. D. Edge; 10. Administrative literature C. E. Bosworth; 11. Arabic biographical writing M. J. L. Young; 12. History and historians Claude Cahen; 13. Fatimid history and historians Abbas Hamdani; 14. Mathematics and applied science Donald R. Hill; 15. Astronomy David A. King; 16. Astrology David Pingree; 17. Geographical and navigational literature J. F. P. Hopkins; 18. The literature of Arabic alchemy Donald R. Hill; 19. Arabic medical literature Haskell D. Isaacs; 20. Al-Kindi Fritz W. Zimmerman; 21. Al-Razi Albert Z. Iskandar; 22. Al-Farabi Alfred L. Ivry; 23. Ibn Sina Salvador Gómez Nogales; 24. Al-Biruni and the sciences of his time George Saliba; 25. Al-Ghazali Adib Nayif Diyab; 26. Christian Arabic literature in the 'Abbasid period Samir Khalil Samir, SJ; 27. Judaeo-Arabic literature Paul B. Fenton; 28. The translation of Greek materials into Arabic L. E. Goodman; 29. Didactic verse Safa' Khulusi; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Virgil and the Augustan Reception
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Cambridge University Press Virgil on the Nature of Things
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Cambridge University Press The Poetics of Imitation
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Cambridge University Press The Literature of AlAndalus The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature
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Cambridge University Press Traditions and Contexts in the Poetry of Horace
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Cambridge University Press A History of AngloLatin Literature 1066 1422
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Cambridge University Press Trinity and Incarnation in AngloSaxon Art and Thought
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Cambridge University Press Representations of the Natural World in Old English Poetry
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Cambridge University Press Paradise Death Doomsday AngSax Lit 32 Cambridge Studies in AngloSaxon England Series Number 32
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Cambridge University Press Catullus the Poetics of Roma
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Cambridge University Press Aelfrics Letter to the Monks of Eynsham
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Cambridge University Press The Composition of Old English Poetry
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Cambridge University Press Being Greek Under Rome
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Cambridge University Press Horace the Rhetoric of Autho
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Cambridge University Press Petronius the Poet
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Cambridge University Press Passions in Roman Thought Li
Book SynopsisEssays explore the understanding of emotions (or 'passions') in Roman thought and literature from a wide range of Latin prose and verse writers. These searching studies of key literary and intellectual texts are all in clear and non-technical language, with Greek and Latin translated.Trade Review"...essays in this volume-such as those on Seneca, Tacitus, Statius, and Roman rhetoric-...open up some valuable perspectives on the Aeneid . Karl Galinsky, VergiliusTable of ContentsPreface; Conventions; Introduction: about this volume Susanna Morton Braund and Christopher Gill; Introduction: the emotions in Greco-Roman philosophy Christopher Gill; 1. Epicurean anger D. P. Fowler; 2. Cicero and the expression of grief Andrew Erskine; 3. The subjugaton of grief in Seneca's Epistles Marcus Wilson; 4. A passion unconsoled? Grief and anger in Juvenal Satire 13 Susanna Morton Braund; 5. Passion, reason and knowledge in Seneca's tragedies Alessandro Schiesaro; 6. Imagination and the arousal of the emotions in Greco-Roman rhetoric Ruth Webb; 7. Pity, fear and the historical audience: Tacitus on the fall of Vitellius D. S. Levene; 8. All in the mind: sickness in Catullus 76 Joan Booth; 9. Ferox uirtus: anger in Virgil's Aeneid M. R. Wright; 10. 'Envy and fear the begetter of hate': Statius' Thebaid and the genesis of hatred Elaine Fantham; 11. Passion as madness in Roman poetry Christopher Gill; Bibliography; Index of ancient passages; General index.
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Cambridge University Press Ovids Poetics of Illusion
Book SynopsisThis major study provides a comprehensive treatment of the ways in which Ovid creates and simultaneously deflates various kinds of illusion in his poetry, touching on his entire output, from the Amores to the exile poetry. It includes substantial discussions of Ovid's reception in western literature and art.Trade Review'… a book produced in exemplary fashion by Cambridge University Press, and which constantly sent me back to read more extended passages of the poet.' Notes and Queries'… this book … should be in the hands not only of anyone interested in Ovid, but of anyone interested in ancient, or modern, poetics as well.' Journal of Roman StudiesTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Impossible objects of desire; 3. Death, desire and monuments; 4. The Heroides; 5. Narcissus: the mirror of the text; 6. Pygmalion: art and illusion; 7. Absent presences of language; 8. Conjugal conjurings; 9. The exile poetry; 10. Ovid recalled in the modern novel; Bibliography; Index of modern authors; Index of passages discussed; General index.
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Cambridge University Press Literary Appropriations of the AngloSaxons from the Thirteenth to the Twentieth Century
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Cambridge University Press The Apocryphal Gospels of Mary in AngloSaxon England
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Cambridge University Press The Metrical Grammar of Beowulf
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Cambridge University Press Text of Old Testament AngloSaxon 15 Cambridge Studies in AngloSaxon England Series Number 15
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Cambridge University Press The Play of Character in Platos Dialogues
Book SynopsisThis book provides an interpretation of Plato in general and several dialogues in particular, from the point of view of dramatic characterization. It aims to show traditional 'analytical' philosophical interpreters the significance of such 'literary' features for understanding the philosophical issues at stake.Trade Review'Ruby Blondell provides a thoroughly researched, intelligently conceived, and well written book which addresses the specific manners in which Plato wrestles with and carries out this very complex task … Blondell has contributed an impressive piece of scholarship worthy of close and considered attention.' Jill Gordon, Colby College'… a thoroughly researched, intelligently conceived, and well written book … What she presents really is a new approach to understanding the evidence one is presented with in Plato's dialogues … Blondell has contributed an impressive piece of scholarship worthy of close and considered attention.' Jill Gordon, Ancient Philosophy'… invigorating … a welcome addition [an] excellent book … [its] insights do shed real and new light on the dramatic composition of the dialogues … the book will certainly be important in the debate about Platonic form and content.' M. M. McCabe, The Times Literary Supplement'… important, stimulating.' Myles Burnyeat, London Review of Books'What is especially pleasing about Blondell's book is that it puts its case so directly and clearly, as well as forcefully. I suggest that it should be treated as foundational for (so-called) literary interpretation of Plato.' Christopher Rowe, Phronesis'… this is a detailed and complex study of characterization containing many excellent individual observations.' Journal of Hellenic StudiesTable of ContentsPreface; 1. Drama and dialogue; 2. The imitation of character; 3. The elenctic Sokrates at work: Hippias Minor; 4. A changing cast of characters: Republic; 5. Reproducing Sokrates: Theaetetus; 6. Putting Sokrates in his place: Sophist and Statesman; Bibliography; General index; Index of passages cited.
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Cambridge University Press Chaucer Traditions Studies in Honour of Derek Brewer
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Cambridge University Press Subjectivity in Troubadour Poetry
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Cambridge University Press The Cansos and Sirventes of the Troubadour Giraut de Borneil
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Cambridge University Press Images of Community in Old English Poetry
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Cambridge University Press The Making of Textual Culture Grammatica and Literary Theory 3501100 19 Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Series Number 19
Book SynopsisThis is the a major study of the cultural work performed by grammatica, the central discipline concerned with literacy, language, interpretation and literature in medieval society. Grammatica was, with all aspects of Latin literary text, its language, meaning and value. Martin Irvine demonstrates that grammatica, though the first of the liberal arts, was not simply one discipline among many: it had an essentially constitutive function, defining language, meaning and texts for other medieval disciplines. Martin Irvine draws together several aspects of medieval culture - literary theory, the nature of literacy, education, biblical interpretation, the literary canon and linguistic thought - in order to disclose the more far-reaching social effect of grammatica, chief of which was the making of textual culture in the medieval West.Trade Review"The book is hugely comprehensive, drawing on a wide bibliography and some materials available only in manuscript. It is a very useful reference work." Nicolette Zeeman, Studies in the Age of Chaucer"His excellent study of this authorized method of reading does for the early Middle Ages what the work of scholars such as Judson Allen, Rita Copeland, Douglas Kelly, Alastair Minnis, and Marjorie Curry Woods has done for the later Middle Ages....It is essential reading for anyonne who seeks to understand the otherness of medieval litertaure." Martin Camargo, Modern Philology"This is an excellent book, a very important book which should be read or at least consulted by all students of the Middle Ages..." ManuscriptaTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Prefece; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Grammatica: a historical and methodological introduction; 1. The formation of grammatica within classical discursive practices; 2. The developing model of grammatica in the Roman and early medieval world; 3. Linguistic foundations; 4. Enarratio I: commentaries on Vergil from Donatus to Fulgentius; 5. Grammatica and the formation of medieval textual communities: Alexandria to Isidore of Seville; 6. Enarratio II: interpretation and the grammar of allegory; 7. Grammatica and textual culture in Anglo-Saxon England and Carolingian Europe; 8. The genres of grammatical culture and manuscript textuality; 9. The implications of grammatical culture in Anglo-Saxon England; 10. Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Indexes.
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Cambridge University Press Irish Tradition in Old English Lit 6 Cambridge Studies in AngloSaxon England Series Number 6
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Cambridge University Press Language and Stage in Medieval and Renaissance England
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Cambridge University Press Graphic Unconscious French Writing 37 Cambridge Studies in French Series Number 37
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Cambridge University Press Medieval Dutch Literature 21 Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Series Number 21
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Cambridge University Press Visible Song Transitional Literacy in Old English Verse 4 Cambridge Studies in AngloSaxon England Series Number 4
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Cambridge University Press Old English Lives St Margaret 9 Cambridge Studies in AngloSaxon England Series Number 9
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Cambridge University Press Textuality of Old English Poetry 13 Cambridge Studies in AngloSaxon England Series Number 13
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Cambridge University Press Stone Lake
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Cambridge University Press Ransom Revenge and Heroic Identity in the Iliad
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