Literary studies: ancient, classical Books
Cambridge University Press The Presence of Rome in Medieval and Early Modern
Book SynopsisThis book explores the cultural and intellectual stakes of medieval and renaissance Britain''s sense of itself as living in the shadow of Rome: a city whose name could designate the ancient, fallen, quintessentially human power that had conquered and colonized Britain, and also the alternately sanctified and demonized Roman Church. Wallace takes medieval texts in a range of languages (including Latin, medieval Welsh, Old English and Old French) and places them in conversation with early modern English and humanistic Latin texts (including works by Gildas, Bede, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Bacon, St. Augustine, Dante, Erasmus, Luther and Montaigne). ''The Ordinary'', ''The Self'', ''The Word'', and ''The Dead'' are taken as compass points by which individuals lived out their orientations to, and against, Rome, isolating important dimensions of Rome''s enduring ability to shape and complicate the effort to come to terms with the nature of self and the structure of human community.Trade Review'… the work is a masterpiece of comparative literature in the best sense of that term. It is innovative, well researched, and clearly written, and it deepens and enriches our understanding of 'Rome' as a place, idea, and transcendent category of selfhood in medieval and early modern 'Britain.'' Aaron Kitch, Modern Philology'Wallace's book … is a solid tribute to the presence of Rome, classical and Christian, in our civilization.' Winthrop Wetherbee, Speculum: A Journal of Medieval StudiesTable of Contents1. The ordinary; 2. The self; 3. The word; 4. The dead.
£28.49
Cambridge University Press Xenophon of Athens
Book SynopsisRe-evaluates Xenophon's supposed admiration of Sparta and argues that his work, the Lacedaimoniôn Politeia, is a critical and philosophical examination of Spartan socio-cultural practices driven by his Socratic ideas. Also demonstrates remarkable points of convergence with his fellow Socratic Plato, as well as connections with Isocrates too.Table of ContentsPreface; List of Abbreviations; Note on Spelling Conventions; Introduction; Part I. 1. Xenophon and his Literary Project; 2. The Lacedaimoniôn Politeia: Theories, Problems, Assumptions; Part II. 3. Reading Lacedaimoniôn Politeia 1-4; 4. Reading Lacedaimoniôn Politeia 5-10; 5. Reading Lacedaimoniôn Politeia 11-15; Part III. 6. The Place of the Lacedaimoniôn Politeia within Xenophon's Literary Project; 7. Xenophon, Plato and Isocrates; Conclusion; Appendix: Text and Translation of the Lacedaimoniôn Politeia; Bibliography; Index locorum; General Index.
£26.59
Cambridge University Press Ciceros Political Personae
Book SynopsisCicero''s speeches provide a fascinating window into the political battles and crises of his time. In this book, Joanna Kenty examines Cicero''s persuasive strategies and the subtleties of his Latin prose, and shows how he used eight political personae the attacker, the grateful friend, the martyr, the senator, the partisan ideologue, and others to maximize his political leverage in the latter half of his career. These personae were what made his arguments convincing, and drew audiences into Cicero''s perspective. Non-specialist and expert readers alike will gain new insight into Cicero''s corpus and career as a whole, as well as a better appreciation of the context, details, and nuances of individual passages.Trade Review'Kenty's thematic approach makes this book a welcome complement to scholarship that adopts a chronological approach to Cicero's writings.' J. Boersma, Choice'… a well-informed and deeply researched study, but also a highly entertaining read for everyone'. Damian Pierzak, Institute of Literary StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The orator as attacker; 2. The orator as friend; 3. The orator as a martyr; 4. The authority figure; 5. The champion of the senate; 6. The popular orator; 7. The voice of a faction; 8. A great man's spokesman; Conclusion.
£31.90
Cambridge University Press Greece and Mesopotamia
Book SynopsisThis book proposes a new approach to the study of ancient Greek and Mesopotamian literature. Ranging from Homer and Gilgamesh to Herodotus and the Babylonian-Greek author Berossos, it paints a picture of two literary cultures that, over the course of time, became profoundly entwined. Along the way, the book addresses many questions of crucial importance to the student of the ancient world: how did the literature of Greece relate to that of its eastern neighbours? What did ancient readers from different cultures think it meant to be human? Who invented the writing of universal history as we know it? How did the Greeks come to divide the world into Greeks and ''barbarians'', and what happened when they came to live alongside those ''barbarians'' after the conquests of Alexander the Great? In addressing these questions, the book draws on cutting-edge research in comparative literature, postcolonial studies and archive theory.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Parallel worlds; 2. Over the horizon; 3. Scripts from the archive; Further dialogues.
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Cambridge University Press Unspoken Rome
Book SynopsisShowcases innovative approaches to Latin literature by reading textual absence as a generative force for literary interpretation and reception. Includes chapters by a wide range of scholars, covering some of the main authors of the Latin literary tradition, often in dialogue with modern literature and philosophy.Table of ContentsIntroduction Tom Geue and Elena Giusti; Part I. Absence in Text: 1. Catullus' Sapphic lacuna: A Palimpsest of Absences and Presences Ábel Tamás; 2. Speaking Aposiopeseis: The (Generic) Sound of Silence in Statius' Thebaid Stefano Briguglio; 3. Allegorical Absences: Virgil, Ovid, Prudentius and Claudian Philip Hardie; 4. Tamen Apsentes Prosunt Pro Praesentibus: Proxied Absences and Roman Comedy Giuseppe Pezzini; 5. Absence Left Wanting: The Groove in Ovid's Remedia Victoria Rimell; 6. The Gaze on the Void: Hermeneutic Responses to Dido's First Appearance Viola Starnone; Part II. Absence in Context: 7. Speaking Silence in Cicero's Brutus and Tacitus' Dialogus de Oratoribus Kathrin Winter; 8. Et Sine Auctore Notissimi Uersus: Unauthored Poetry and Rome's Authoritative Turn Barbara Del Giovane; 9. Looking for the Emperor in Seneca's Letters Catharine Edwards; 10. Marcus Aurelius: Medi()ations not Medi(c)ations John Henderson; 11. Lost in Germania: The Absence of History in Tacitus' Ethnography James Mcnamara; 12. Conspicuous Absence: Tacitus' de Re Publica Ellen O'gorman; Part III. Going Beyond: 13. The Slave, Between Absence and Presence William Fitzgerald; 14. In Search of the Lost City: The Enduring Absence of Pompeii Joanna Paul; 15. Omnibus Umbra Locis Adero: Elena Ferrante and the Poetics of Absence Francesca Bellei; 16. The Philology of Grief: Catullus 101 and Anne Carson's Nox Erik Fredericksen; 17. Absence, Metaphysically Speaking: From Reception to Instauration? Duncan Kennedy; 18. Afterword: Lights Out Emily Gowers.
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Cambridge University Press WorldMaking Renaissance Women
Book SynopsisThis book answers three simple questions. First, what mistaken assumptions do we make about the early modern period when we ignore women''s literary contributions? Second, how might we come to recognise women''s influence on the history of literature and culture, as well as those instances of outright pathbreaking mastery for which they are so often responsible? Finally, is it possible to see some women writers as world-makers in their own right, individuals whose craft cut into cultural practice so incisively that their shaping authority can be traced well beyond their own moment? The essays in this volume pursue these questions through intense archival investigation, intricate close reading, and painstaking literary-historical tracking, tracing in concrete terms sixteen remarkable women and their world-shaping activities.Table of ContentsIntroduction; The literary contours of women's world-making Brandie R. Siegfried and Pamela S. Hammons; Part I. Early Modern Women Framing the Modern World: 1. Erotic origins: genesis, the passion, and Aemilia Lanyer's Queer temporality Erin Murphy; 2. Aphra Behn's fiction: transmission, editing, and canonization Paul Salzman; 3. From aisling vision to Irish queen: the reimergence of Gráinne Ní Mháille in Europe's revolutionary period Brandie R. Siegfried; 4. Reframing the picture: screening early modern women for modern audiences Lisa Walters and Naomi Miller; Part II. Remaking the Literary World: 5. Uncloseted: geography and early modern women's dramatic writing Marion Wynne-Davies; 6. Lucy Hutchinson's memoirs as auto-biography Laura DeFurio; 7. Commonplace genres, or women's interventions in non-traditional literary forms: Madame de Sablé, Aphra Behn, and the maxim Victoria E. Burke; 8. Form, formalism, and literary studies: the case of Margaret Cavendish Lara Dodds; Part III. Connecting the Social Worlds of Religion, Politics, and Philosophy: 9. Royalism and resistance: the personal and the political in Anne, Lady Halkett's Meditations, 1660–1699 Suzanne Trill; 10. Hester Pulter's dissolving worlds Marshelle Woodward; 11. The feminist worlds of Margaret Cavendish David Cunning; 12. Augustus reigns, but poets still are low: Aphra Behn's world in the emperor of the moon (1687) Elaine Hobby; Part IV. Rethinking Early Modern Types and Stereotypes: 13. Learning to imitate women: male education and the grammar of female experience Catherine Loomis; 14. Mothers and widows: world-making against stereotypes in early modern English women's manuscript writings Pamela Hammons; 15. Queer virgins: nuns, reproductive futurism, and early modern English culture Jaime Goodrich; 16. Defensor Feminae: Aemilia Lanyer and Rachel Speght Elizabeth Hodgson; 17. Margaret Cavendish's Melancholy identity: gender and the evolution of a Genre Tina Skouen and Henriette Kolle.
£71.25
Cambridge University Press Exemplary Ethics in Ancient Rome
Book SynopsisThis ground-breaking study conveys the thrill and moral power of the ancient Roman story-world and its ancestral tales of bloody heroism. Its account of ''exemplary ethics'' explores how and what Romans learnt from these moral exempla, arguing that they disseminated widely not only core values such as courage and loyalty, but also key ethical debates and controversies which are still relevant for us today. Exemplary ethics encouraged controversial thinking, creative imitation, and a critical perspective on moral issues, and it plays an important role in Western philosophical thought. The model of exemplary ethics developed here is based on a comprehensive survey of Latin literature, and its innovative approach also synthesizes methodologies from disciplines such as contemporary philosophy, educational theory, and cultural memory studies. It offers a new and robust framework for the study of Roman exempla that will also be valuable for the study of moral exempla in other settings.Trade Review'… [This] exemplary book enriches the study of Roman exempla and of exemplarity as such. It opens many paths of productive debate, and will provide a trove of ideas and prompts to further research.' Matthew Roller, Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Roman values and the archetypal exemplum; 2. The special capacity of exemplary stories; 3. Exploitation, participation and the social function exempla; 4. The experience of learning from exempla; 5. Multiplicity, breadth, diversity and situational sensitivity in exemplary ethics; 6. Working consensus around Roman exempla; 7. Indeterminacy of exempla: interpretation, motivation and improvisation; 8. Sites of exemplarity: referentiality, memory, orality; 9. The dynamics of cultural memory: forgetting, rupture, contestation; 10. Changing sites of exemplarity: two case studies; 11. Diachronic overview of the exemplary terrain; 12. Controversial thinking through exempla; 13. Philosophical and literary adventures in the exemplary terrain; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press The European Book in the Twelfth Century
Book SynopsisThe ''long twelfth century'' (10751225) was an era of seminal importance in the development of the book in medieval Europe and marked a high point in its construction and decoration. This comprehensive study takes the cultural changes that occurred during the ''twelfth-century Renaissance'' as its point of departure to provide an overview of manuscript culture encompassing the whole of Western Europe. Written by senior scholars, chapters are divided into three sections: the technical aspects of making books; the processes and practices of reading and keeping books; and the transmission of texts in the disciplines that saw significant change in the period, including medicine, law, philosophy, liturgy, and theology. Richly illustrated, the volume provides the first in-depth account of book production as a European phenomenon.Trade Review'The book should and probably will be perceived as a companion volume to twelfth-century manuscript studies. Whether you read it as a manual to acquire a broader knowledge of the period, or selectively, as a reference tool, its comprehensive character makes it a very accessible introduction to the subject for junior and experienced scholars alike.' Joanna Fronska, Manuscript StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction Erik Kwakkel and Rodney Thomson; Part I. Book Production: 1. Codicology Erik Kwakkel and Rodney Thomson; 2. Book script Erik Kwakkel; 3. Decoration and illustration Martin Kauffmann; 4. Scribes and scriptoria Rodney Thomson; Part II. Readers and Their Books: 5. Scholars and their books Constant Mews; 6. The libraries of religious houses Teresa Webber; 7. Modes of reading Jenny Weston; 8. Practices of appropriation: writing in the margin Mariken Teeuwen; Part III. Types of Books: 9. Hebrew books Judith Schlanger; 10. Liturgical books Nicolas Bell; 11. Books of theology and bible study Lesley Smith; 12. Logic John Marenbon and Caterina Tarlazzi; 13. Old texts in new contexts: the classical revival Irene O'Daly; 14. Reading the sciences Charles Burnett; 15. Medical books Monica Green; 16. Law books Charles Radding; 17. Vernacular books Ian Short and Nigel F. Palmer.
£36.87
Cambridge University Press Landscape Nature and the Sacred in Byzantium
Book SynopsisNature is as much an idea as a physical reality. By ''placing'' nature within Byzantine culture and within the discourse of Orthodox Christian thought and practice, Landscape, Nature and the Sacred in Byzantium explores attitudes towards creation that are utterly and fascinatingly different from the modern. Drawing on Patristic writing and on Byzantine literature and art, the book develops a fresh conceptual framework for approaching Byzantine perceptions of space and the environment. It takes readers on an imaginary flight over the Earth and its varied topographies of gardens and wilderness, mountains and caves, rivers and seas, and invites them to shift from the linear time of history to the cyclical time and spaces of the sacred - the time and spaces of eternal returns and revelations.Table of ContentsIntroduction: placing topographies; Part I. Topos and Cosmos: 1. Sacred topographies; 2. Sacred cosmographies; Part II. Land: 3. Gardens; 4. Wilderness; Part III. Rock: 5. Mountains; 6. Caves; Part IV. Water: 7. Rivers; 8. Seas; Epilogue.
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Cambridge University Press Dante Convivio
Book SynopsisDante''s Convivio, composed in exile between 1304 and 1307, is a series of self-commentaries on three of Dante''s long poems. These allegorical love poems and philosophical verse become the basis for philosophical, literary, moral, and political exposition. The prose is written in Italian so that those who were not educated in Latin could take part in what Dante called his ''banquet of knowledge''. In this edition, eminent Dante translator-scholar Andrew Frisardi offers the first fully annotated translation of the work into English, with an extensive introduction, making Dante''s often complex writings accessible to scholars and students. The parallel Italian text is also included for the first time in an English translation of the Convivio. Readers of this work can gain a strong understanding of the philosophical themes across Dante''s work, including the Divine Comedy, as well as the logic, politics and science of his time.Trade Review'As well as a translation, [Frisardi] offers the most recent Italian text, … along with a long thoughtful introduction and more than 200 pages of notes. … The Convivio … demands application and reflection. Frisardi provides serious, up-to-date help for the willing anglophone reader - substantial nourishment.' Peter Hainsworth, The Times Literary Supplement'Andrew Frisardi's new dual-language translation situates itself carefully into [a] flourishing current of contemporary work, and makes a most welcome addition to the available literature. … Frisardi's excellent edition-translation and its apparatus is to be welcomed for its concern to present afresh the Convivio to an anglophone readership and for the ways it foregrounds its importance and multifaceted character as one of Dante's most important 'other works'.' Simon Gilson, Speculum'I welcome this book as one of the finest heralds of an upcoming, new phase in the life of Dante's Convivio.' Ambrogio Camozzi Pistoja, Temenos Academy ReviewTable of ContentsTranslator's preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: the Convivio: a portrait; Dante and Lady Philosophia-Sapientia; Dante's quest for knowledge; Dante and nobility; Convivio: Book I; Book II; Book III; Book IV; Appendix: prose translations of the 'Three Canzoni'; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
£29.44
Cambridge University Press The Greeks and Their Histories
Book SynopsisLike every society, the Greek communities needed a unifying concept of their past, an 'intentional history'. In direct interaction with poets, they formed an aesthetic network in which myths were considered as historical events. This volume considers how Greeks' histories were consciously employed to help shape political and social realities.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The locus of intentional history: reference-group – producers – media; 2. Greek myths as a history of the Greeks: motifs – forms – structures; 3. Greek historiography between past and present; 4. Greek historiography between fiction and fact; Concluding perspectives.
£80.75
Cambridge University Press Thucydides The Peloponnesian War Book VI
Book SynopsisIn Books 6 and 7 Thucydides'' narrative is, as Plutarch puts it, ''at its most emotional, vivid, and varied'' as he describes the Sicilian Expedition that ended so catastrophically for Athens (415413 BCE). Book 6 features tense debates both at Athens, with cautious Nicias no match for risk-taking Alcibiades, and at Syracuse, with the statesmanlike Hermocrates confronting the populist Athenagoras. The spectacle of the armada is memorably described; so is the panic at Athens when people fear that acts of sacrilege may be alienating the gods, with Alcibiades himself so implicated that he is soon recalled. The Book ends with Athens seeming poised for victory; that will soon change, and a sister commentary on Book 7 is being published simultaneously. The Introduction discusses the narrative skill and the part these books play in the architecture of the history. Considerable help with the Greek is offered throughout the Commentary.Trade Review'Book 6 is beautifully written, packed with self-contained information about the text and citations of the secondary scholarship.' Gregory Crane, Tufts University, Bryn Mawr Classical Review'… Pelling provides us with a significant piece of work, all the more so because of his close focus upon literary matters, in which he excels. He is in full control of the text, its grammar and syntax, major and minor themes, and the enormous secondary literature that afflicts the scholar trying to explicate Thucydides' rhetorical genius.' Hunter R. Rawlings III, Histos'Anyone reading Thucydides' books VI and VII can, perhaps even should, benefit from the deep knowledge of and understanding for the text Pelling displays.' Jan P. Stronk, Exemplaria Classica'The Introductions serve as warm and erudite welcomes into a text often represented as cold and formidable. … The commentaries are extremely rich … Pelling's volumes facilitate greater access to Thucydides, while his insightful readings demonstrate the way that Thucydides' authorial choices leave the reader with a sense of the tragedy of the Peloponnesian War.' Rachel Bruzzone, Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; Deviations from Alberti; Sigla; THUCYDIDES: THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR BOOK VI; Commentary; Bibliography; Indexes.
£25.99
Cambridge University Press Thucydides The Peloponnesian War Book VII
Book SynopsisIn Books 6 and 7 Thucydides'' narrative is, as Plutarch puts it, ''at its most emotional, vivid, and varied'' as he describes the Sicilian Expedition that ended so catastrophically for Athens (415413 BCE). Book 7 opens with Athens seemingly on the point of victory, but the arrival of the Spartan commander Gylippus marks a change in fortunes and the Athenian commander Nicias is soon sending home a desperate plea for reinforcements. Three narrative masterpieces follow their arrival, first the eerie confusion of the night battle on the heights, then the naval clash in the Great Harbour, and finally the desperate attempt to escape and the slaughter at the river Assinarus. Following the sister commentary on Book 6, the Commentary offers students considerable help understanding the Greek while the Introduction discusses Thucydides'' narrative skill and the part these books play in the architecture of the history.Trade Review'… the level of erudition is high and the analysis of grammar, syntax, and rhetoric admirable. The introduction to this volume is very thorough … Pelling takes up all major and some minor aspects of the book and gives them full treatment …' Hunter R. Rawlings III, Histos'Anyone reading Thucydides' books VI and VII can, perhaps even should, benefit from the deep knowledge of and understanding for the text Pelling displays.' Jan P. Stronk, Exemplaria Classica'The Introductions serve as warm and erudite welcomes into a text often represented as cold and formidable … The commentaries are extremely rich … Pelling's volumes facilitate greater access to Thucydides, while his insightful readings demonstrate the way that Thucydides' authorial choices leave the reader with a sense of the tragedy of the Peloponnesian War.' Rachel Bruzzone, Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; Deviations from Alberti; Sigla; THUCYDIDES: THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR BOOK VII; Commentary; Bibliography; Indexes.
£23.99
Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Sappho
Book SynopsisNo ancient poet has a wider following today than Sappho; her status as the most famous woman poet from Greco-Roman antiquity, and as one of the most prominent lesbian voices in history, has ensured a continuing fascination with her work down the centuries. The Cambridge Companion to Sappho provides an up-to-date survey of this remarkable, inspiring, and mysterious Greek writer, whose poetic corpus has been significantly expanded in recent years thanks to the discovery of new papyrus sources. Containing an introduction, prologue and thirty-three chapters, the book examines Sappho''s historical, social, and literary contexts, the nature of her poetic achievement, the transmission, loss, and rediscovery of her poetry, and the reception of that poetry in cultures far removed from ancient Greece, including Latin America, India, China, and Japan. All Greek is translated, making the volume accessible to everyone interested in one of the most significant creative artists of all time.Trade Review'Including a general index (in addition to the reception index) and a very useful bibliography, this volume will be indispensable for all who are interested in Sappho and her tradition and for those working on archaic Greek poetry in general … Highly recommended.' P. Nieto, Choice MagazineTable of ContentsIntroduction P. J. Finglass and Adrian Kelly; Part I. Contexts: 1. Sappho's lives Maarit Kivilo; 2. Sappho's Lesbos Rosalind Thomas; 3. Sappho and sexuality Melissa Mueller; 4. Sappho and epic Adrian Kelly; 5. Sappho and Alcaeus Wolfgang Rösler; 6. Sappho and archaic Greek song culture Deborah Steiner; Part II. Poetics: 7. Sappho and genre Leslie Kurke; 8. Performing Sappho Franco Ferrari; 9. Sappho's metres and music Luigi Battezzato; 10. Sappho's dialect Olga Tribulato; 11. Sappho's poetic language Vanessa Cazzato; 12. Sappho's personal poetry André Lardinois; 13. Sappho's lyric sensibility Alex Purves; 14. Myth in Sappho Ruth Scodel; 15. The gods in Sappho Laura Swift; Part III. Transmission: 16. The Alexandrian edition of Sappho Lucia Prauscello; 17. Sappho on the papyri P. J. Finglass; 18. Editions of Sappho since the Renaissance P. J. Finglass; Part IV. Receptions: 19. Sappho in fifth- and fourth-century Greek literature Lyndsay Coo; 20. Sappho and Hellenistic poetry Richard Hunter; 21. Sappho at Rome Llewelyn Morgan; 22. Sappho in imperial Greek literature Ewen Bowie; 23. Sappho at Byzantium Filippomaria Pontani; 24. Early modern Sapphos in France and England Stuart Gillespie; 25. Early modern and modern German, Italian, and Spanish Sapphos Cecilia Piantanida; 26. Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Sapphos in France, England, and the United States Marguerite Johnson; 27. Sappho and modern Greece Dimitrios Kargiotis; 28. Sappho in the twentieth century and beyond: anglophone receptions Barbara Goff and Katherine Harloe; 29. Sappho in Australia and New Zealand Marguerite Johnson; 30. Sappho in Latin America Robert De Brose; 31. Sappho in Hebrew literature Adriana X. Jacobs; 32. Sappho in India Ruth Vanita; 33. Sappho in China and Japan Jingling Chen; List of works cited; Index of passages discussed; Index of subjects; Index of Greek.
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Cambridge University Press Diogenes Laertius Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Book SynopsisA new critical edition of Diogenes Laertius' Lives of Eminent Philosophers, a unique work which has had a profound influence on European literature and philosophy. A lengthy introduction lists all the manuscripts of the Lives and discusses its transmission in late antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Abbreviations and bibliography; Text (books 1–10); Sigla; Breviata; Svbsidivm interpretationis (books 1–10); Appendices; Index of proper names.
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Penguin Books Ltd Medieval English Verse
Book SynopsisShort narrative poems, religious and secular lyrics, and moral, political, and comic verses are all included in this comprehensive collection of works from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.Table of ContentsForewordIntroductionPoems of the Nativity1. "I sing of a Maiden"2. "Bringing us bliss now"3. "Holy Mary, mother mild"4. "Lady, Lady, fair and bright"5. "Of a Rose, a lovely Rose"6. "Jesus, son most sweet and dear"7. "Let us gather hand in hand"8. "As I was lying down at night"Poems on the Passion9. "Upon a Holy Thursday, up rose Our Lord"10. "Now sinks the sun beneath the wood"11. "White was his naked breast"12. "Lovely tear from lovely eye"13. "You who created everything"14. "Man and woman, look on me!"15. "Look on your Lord, Man, hanging on the Rood"16. "Mother and Maiden, come and see!"17. "My folk, what have I done to you"Poems of Adoration18. "All other love is like the moon"19. A Goodly Orison to Our Lady20. "Holy Mary, Lady bright"21. "A maid of Christ made warm request"22. "Adam lay in bondage"23. "Love made firm in Christ"Poems of Sin and Death24. "Merry it is while summer lasts"25. "The life of this world"26. "When the turf is your tower"27. "Now that man is hale and whole"28. "When my eyes are fogged"29. "Long life, O Man, you hope to gain"30. The Ten Ages of Man31. "Hard it is to flit"32. "Ubi Sunt qui ante Nos Fuerunt?"33. "Holy Lady Mary, Mother, Maid"Miscellaneous Religious Poems34. The Ten Commandments35. The Covetous Man36. "No longer will I wicked be!"37. "Lord, you called to me"38. The Thrush and the Nightingale39. "The man who would the truth tell"40. "Though you be king of tower and town"41. "Pride is out and pride is in"42. "Blowing was made for sport and game"43. The Adulterous Falmouth SquireSelections from the Bestiary44. The Lion45. The Stag46. The WhaleMiscellaneous Secular Poems47. "I am from Ireland"48. "Maiden on the moor lay"49. "Of every kind of tree"50. "All night by the rose, rose"51. "I am Rose, alas for me"52. "Tell me, broom wizard, tell me"53. "Now blossoms the spray"54. "Love is soft and love is sweet"55. "I newly have a garden"56. "I have a little sister"57. "I have a noble cockerel"58. The Servant Girl's Holiday59. "Not long ago I met a clerk"60. "Brainy teacher, is it your"61. "Swarthy smoke-blackened smiths"62. "The Man in the Moon can stand or stride"63. "Lord who grants us life and looks upon us all"64. The Lion65. The Bear66. The DragonPolitical Poems67. Song of the Battle of Lewes, 126468. The Battle of Bannockburn, by Lawrence Minot69. On the Death of Edward III70. Patiene, or Jonah and the Whale71. PearlThe Harley LyricsReligious Poems72. "This middle-earth was made for man"73. "O God above us, grant my boon"74. "The tears of weeping wet my cheek"75. "O God, who does all deeds of might"76. "Winter rouses all my grief"77. "Now fade the rose and lily-flower"78. "Jesu, through your noble might"79. "With sadness in my song"80. "Mother, stand firm beneath the Rood!"81. "When I see blossoms thronging"82. "The heart of Man can hardly know" (i)Secular Poems83. "The heart of Man can hardly know"84. "Spring's about with love again"85. "Between March and April"86. "Through Ribblesdale I'd like to ride"87. "A beauty white as whale's bone"88. "I know of a beauty, a beryl most bright"89. "Love hurts me with its craving"90. "In Maytime in the merry dawn"91. "In April, when, as all can hear"92. "Riding in a wood unknown"93. "My death I love, my life I hate"94. Sir OrfeoTwo Comic Verse Tales95. Dame Siriz and the Weeping Bitch96. The Fox and the Wolf in the WellAppendix I: Provenance of the PoemsAppendix II: Further Bibliography
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Epic of Gilgamesh
Book SynopsisA great king, strong as the stars in Heaven. Enkidu, a wild and mighty hero, is created by the gods to challenge the arrogant King Gilgamesh. But instead of killing each other, the two become friends. Travelling together to the Cedar Forest, they fight and slay the evil monster Humbaba. But when Enkidu is killed, his death haunts and breaks the mighty Gilgamesh. Terrified of mortality, he resolves to find the secret of eternal life...
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OUP India Classical Mythology in Context
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Oxford University Press Inc Antigone Greek Tragedy in New Translations
Book SynopsisThis finely-tuned translation of Sophocles' Antigone by Richard Emil Braun, offers an interpretation informed by exemplary scholarship and critical insight. Braun's translation highlights the extraordinary structural symmetry and beauty of Sophocles' design by focusing on the balanced and harmonious view of tragically opposed wills that makes the play so moving.Trade ReviewAn exceptionally compelling translation that captures the feel of the original. The introduction and the end material add several useful dimensions. Highly recommended! * George Perreault, Gonzaga University *Braun's translation is as steely as the Greek and his introduction cuts through to the heart of the play. * J.P. Sullivan, University of California, Santa Barbara *Praise for the series:While every reader may have a favorite translation that does this or that differently, these are finely modulated to seem neither foolishly colloquial nor irritatingly archaic. The great delight of this series, for me, are the first-rate brief introductions, the practical and wise notes, the enormously useful classical glossary. This series is likely to be a standard for years to come. * Kliatt Young Adult Paperback Guide *The transaltion is very readable....Notes are very helpful. * Brad Wright, Cornell University *The translation, introduction, notes, appendix, and glossary should attract the intelligent reader. The translation itself is accurate and of high quality. * Patricia P. Watsen, University of South Carolina *
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Oxford University Press Inc Empire of Letters Writing in Roman Literature and
Book SynopsisShedding new light on the history of the book in antiquity, Empire of Letters tells the story of writing at Rome at the pivotal moment of transition from Republic to Empire (c. 55 BCE-15 CE). By uniting close readings of the period''s major authors with detailed analysis of material texts, it argues that the physical embodiments of writing were essential to the worldviews and self-fashioning of authors whose works took shape in them. Whether in wooden tablets, papyrus bookrolls, monumental writing in stone and bronze, or through the alphabet itself, Roman authors both idealized and competed with writing''s textual forms.The academic study of the history of the book has arisen largely out of the textual abundance of the age of print, focusing on the Renaissance and after. But fewer than fifty fragments of classical Roman bookrolls survive, and even fewer lines of poetry. Understanding the history of the ancient Roman book requires us to think differently about this evidence, placing it into the context of other kinds of textual forms that survive in greater numbers, from the fragments of Greek papyri preserved in the garbage heaps of Egypt to the Latin graffiti still visible on the walls of the cities destroyed by Vesuvius. By attending carefully to this kind of material in conjunction with the rich literary testimony of the period, Empire of Letters exposes the importance of textuality itself to Roman authors, and puts the written word back at the center of Roman literature.Trade ReviewParticularly noteworthy is Frampton's focus on the specific technology and materiality of writing, which forms an indispensable context not only for understanding the writers of the late Republic and the Augustan period (the focus of this study) but also for later writers. Written in an accessible style, with abundant references to earlier scholarship, this book constitutes an ideal first step for students interested in the history of writing in Rome, and will be especially welcome to students and scholars of Roman literature. ... Summing up: Highly recommended * M. L. Goldman, CHOICE *This is an engagingly written and thought-provoking volume that usefully brings together a wide range of interesting literary and physical material on specific topics. * The Classical Review *Frampton set herself the difficult task of producing an exhaustive overview of all aspects of the material aspects of writing in the Graeco-Roman world, but with emphasis on Latin language, by scouring available literary and epigraphic sources for information. The successful result is this eminently readable volume, which answers questions about ancient literacy that had never occurred to this reviewer, for one, to ask.... A beguiling book, a pleasure to read. * Classical Journal-Online *This is a very good book to shake up the classicists still relying on approaches of yore. * The Library *there is a great deal of interest and plenty of incentive to appreciate the inadequacy of one's experience as one settles down to study Horace * Keith Maclennan, Classics for All *Frampton explores the fascinating minutiae of the physical act of writing in Roman antiquityâ. For those of us who love the Roman literary tradition, Empire of Letters immerses us in the grit and gravel of Lucretius' and Virgil's tools of the trade, giving classically-minded readers the delightful opportunity to feel the papyrus and smell the wax. * FORMA Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Introduction: More Than Words Chapter 1: Classics and the Study of the Book Chapter 2: Writing and Identity Chapter 3: The Text of the World Chapter 4: Tablets of Memory Chapter 5: The Roman Poetry Book Chapter 6: Ovid and the Inscriptions Conclusion: Texts and Objects References Index locorum Index
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The University of Chicago Press Practicing Literary Theory in the Middle Ages
Book SynopsisLiterary scholars often avoid category of aesthetic in discussions of ethics, believing that aesthetic judgments can vitiate analyses of a literary work's sociopolitical heft. This title reveals that aesthetics formal aspects of literary language that make it senseperceptible are indeed inextricable from ethics in writing of medieval literature.Trade Review"Eleanor Johnson is a kind of literary-critical mechanic, revealing with brilliance and skill how particular formal and rhetorical elements work discretely and together to shape the readerly process - not for its own sake, but for the larger premodern project of personal ethical transformation. The research is first-rate and the arguments are original. The book will have an immediate and lasting effect on the study of medieval literature." (Bruce Holsinger, University of Virginia)"
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University of Chicago Press Geographies of Philological Knowledge
Book SynopsisExamines the relationship between medievalism and colonialism in the nineteenth-century Hispanic American context through the striking case of the Creole Andres Bello (1781-1865), a Venezuelan grammarian whose lifelong philological work on the medieval heroic narrative would later become Spain's national epic, The Poem of the Cid.Trade Review"Nadia R. Altschul has been responsible for some of the most searching studies of the links between the European premodern past and the colonial enterprise. In her new book, she turns her attention to the Americas and to the central role of Andres Bello in the formation of Latin American cultural identities. The result is a fundamental rethinking of an apparently authoritative humanism, revealing its Creole status. Beneath Altschul's lucid and precise prose is a passionate intelligence. It will be welcomed not only by students of Spanish-language literatures but also by those in postcolonial studies and transnational American studies." (John M. Ganim, author of Medievalism and Orientalism)"
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The University of Chicago Press Signifying God
Book SynopsisIn this text, Sarah Beckwith explores the lavish and complex form of the York Corpus Christi plays. She shows how organizing the plays served as a political mechanism for regulating labour, and how theatre and sacrement combined in them to do theological work.
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The University of Chicago Press Dante and the Limits of the Law
Book SynopsisOffers the study of the legal structure crucial to Dante's Divine Comedy. This title makes the compelling case that Dante deliberately exploits this highly structured legal system to explore the phenomenon of exceptions to it, introducing Dante to crucial current debates about literature's relation to law, exceptionality, and sovereignty.Trade Review"Written with grit and polemical brio, Justin Steinberg's book takes readers into the technical world of medieval legal conventions as they appear and even shape the vast and detailed legal system of Dante's Divine Comedy. Filling a substantial lacuna in the critical bibliography of the Commedia, the cogent and absolutely persuasive Dante and the Limits of the Law makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the poem." (Giuseppe Mazzotta, Yale University)"
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The University of Chicago Press Trade and Romance Emersion Emergent Village
Book SynopsisExamines the complex relations between the expansion of trade in Asia and the production of heroic romance in Europe from the second half of the thirteenth century through the late seventeenth century.Trade Review"Both immensely erudite and fun to read, Michael Murrin's Trade and Romance chronicles three stages of Europe's premodern commercial engagements with Asia: the traversing of the Silk Route, the arrival of the Portuguese in the Indian Ocean, and the exploration by Englishmen and Russians of a northern land route to China. Trade and Romance can be enjoyed not only by historians and literary scholars, for whom it will be essential reading, but also by a broader educated public that shares Murrin's interest in historical geography." (David Quint, Yale University)"
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The University of Chicago Press The Story of Sapho The Other Voice in Early
Book SynopsisThe Story of Sapho makes available for the first time in modern English a self contained section from Scudery's novel Artamene ou le Grand Cyrus. This edition also includes a translation of an oration in which Sapho extols the talents of women to persuade them to write.
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The University of Chicago Press Sappho Is Burning
Book SynopsisThis study offers a different reading of the archaic lesbian poet, Sappho, whose poetry dates from the seventh century BC. Her presentation of many certitudes in the history of poetry, philosophy and sexuality are featured here.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments 1: Fragmentary Introduction 2: The Aesthetics of the Fragment 3: Sappho's Body-in-Pieces 4: Sappho in the Text of Plato 5: Helen 6: Sappho in the History of Sexuality 7: Michel Foucault, Sappho, and the Postmodern Subject 8: Asianism and the Theft of Enjoyment Select Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press Eleanor of Aquitane and Six Others
Book SynopsisAn examination of the lives of prominent 12th-century French women as well as popular female literary figures of the time. Focusing on medieval notions of women and love, the author studies women's biographies and analyzes how female characters were treated in fable and legend.
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The University of Chicago Press Dantes Interpretive Journey Volume 1996 Religion
Book SynopsisCritically engaging the thought of Heidegger, Gadamer and others, this work contributes both to the criticism of Dante's Divine Comedy, and to the theory of interpretation. It uses hermeneutical theory to provide a reading of the poem, focusing on Dante's address to the reader.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: Truth and interpretation in the Divine Comedy 1: Historicity of Truth 2: Truth through Interpretation and the Hermeneutic of Faith 3: Interpretive Ontology: Dante and Heidegger Ch. 1: The Address to the Reader 1: The Ontological Import of the Address to the Reader 2: Reader's Address as Scene of the Production of Sense 3: Truth, Sendings, Being-Addressed: Deconstruction versus Hermeneutics or Dialogue with Derrida? 4: A Philological Debate: Auerbach and Spitzer 5: Petrarch, Boccaccio, and the Fiction of Philology Ch. 2: Dante's Hermeneutic Rite of Passage: Inferno IX 1: Blockage 2: Passage 3: Ambiguities 4: Appendix: Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, and the Meaning of a Modern Understanding of Dante Ch. 3: The Temporality of Conversion 1: Interpretation as Ontological Repetition and Dante's Fatedness 2: Ecstatic and Repetitive Temporality 3: Phenomenology of Fear/Anxiety in Inferno I 4: Dantesque Allegory and the Act of Understanding Ch. 4: The Making of History 1: Relocating Truth: From Historical Sense to Reader's Historicity 2: Reality and Realism in Purgatorio X 3: Some History (and a Reopening) of the Question of the Truth of the Commedia Ch. 5: Resurrected Tradition and Revealed Truth 1: Dante's Statius 2: Hermeneutics, Historicity, and Suprahistorical Truth Recapitulatory Prospectus: A New Hermeneutic Horizon for Religious Revelation in Poetic Literature? Core Bibliography of Recurrently Cited Sources Index
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The University of Chicago Press Discoverers Explorers Settlers The Diligent
Book SynopsisSend those on land that will show themselves diligent writers. So urged the sailing instructions prepared for explorer Henry Hudson. With distinctive command of the primary texts created by such diligent writers as Columbus, William Bradford, and Thomas Jefferson, Wayne Franklin describes how the New World was created from their new words. The long verbal discovery of America, he asserts, entailed both advance and retreat, sudden insights and blind insistence on old ways of seeing. The discoverers, explorers, and settlers depicted America in wordsor via maps, tables, and landscape viewsas a complex spatial and political entity, a place where ancient formula and current fact were inevitably at odds.
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The University of Chicago Press Before the Closet SameSex Love from Beowulf to
Book SynopsisExamining the intolerance of homosexuality in the early medieval period, this study challenges the long-held belief that the early Middle Ages tolerated same-sex relations. The work focuses on Anglo-Saxon literature but also includes examinations of contemporary opera, dance and theatre.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Straightforward Pt. 1: Trouser Roles and Transvestites 1: What's Love Got to Do with It? 2: Kiss and Tell: Anglo-Saxon Tales of Manly Men and Women Pt. 2: The Anglo-Saxons 3: Surveying Same-Sex Relations in the Early Middle Ages 4: The Sociology of Sex in Anglo-Saxon Laws and Penitentials 5: The Shadow of Sodom: Same-Sex Relations in Pastoral Prose and Poetry Pt. 3: From Angles to Angels 6: Sex and the Anglo-Saxons from the Norman Conquest to the Renaissance 7: Alla, Angli, and Angels in America Afterword: Me and My Shadows Notes Index
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The University of Chicago Press Songbook
Book SynopsisShows what poetry was before the emergence of the modern category poetry: that is, how vernacular songbooks of the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries shaped our modern understanding of poetry by establishing expectations of what is a poem, what is a poet, and what is lyric poetry itself.Trade Review"A book distinguished not only by clarity of presentation and learning but also by impressive comparative scope." (Speculum) "Songbook is written in an eloquent, confident, elegant style, clearly argued and exceptionally well designed and edited." (Times Literary Supplement)
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University of Chicago Press The Complete Greek Tragedies Volume 3 Euripides
Book SynopsisThe Grene and Lattimore edition of the Greek tragedies has been among the most widely acclaimed and successful publications of the University of Chicago Press. On the occasion of the Centennial of the University of Chicago and its Press, we take pleasure in reissuing this complete work in a handsome four-volume slipcased edition as well as in redesigned versions of the familiar paperbacks. For the Centennial Edition two of the original translations have been replaced. In the original publication David Grene translated only one of the three Theban plays, Oedipus the King. Now he has added his own translations of the remaining two, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone, thus bringing a new unity of tone and style to this group. Grene has also revised his earlier translation of Prometheus Bound and rendered some of the former prose sections in verse. These new translations replace the originals included in the paperback volumes Sophocles I (which contains all three Theban plays), Aeschylus II, Greek Tragedies, Volume I, and Greek Tragedies, Volume III, all of which are now being published in second editions. All other volumes contain the translations of the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides for the most part from the original versions first published in the 1940s and 1950s. These translations have been the choice of generations of teachers and students, selling in the past forty years over three million copies.
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The University of Chicago Press Of Farming and Classics A Memoir
Book SynopsisDavid Grene devoted his life to two things: farming, which he began as a boy in Ireland and continued into old age; and classics, which he taught for several decades that culminated in his translating and editing the Complete Greek Tragedies. This memoir which he wrote before his death weaves together these interests to tell a quirky story.Trade Review"An illuminating read for every classical scholar engaged with the current quest for the subject's roots, and the excavation of the way that it has evolved over the past century and a half." - Edith Hall, Times Literary Supplement "David Grene reminds us of two crucial aspects of modern life exemplified by this rare individual. First is the symbiosis between the life of contemplation and action - and just how it is that hard physical and dirty work offers real value in rediscovering nature, bringing with it a certain pragmatism that permeates reading and thinking.... Second, Grene reminds us of what constitutes success in life." - Victor Davis Hanson, New York Sun "Grene was as much part of the rural farming community in Ireland as of the academic community in Chicago, and Irish people found it as hard to imagine him as a professor of Greek as his academic colleagues found it hard to imagine him as a dairy farmer." - Irish Times "David Grene could easily be described with the cliche 'last of a breed,' but he was also the first of his kind. Or at least, the first in a long time.... His personal style reincarnated that of the Roman artistocrats, with their love of the soil and taste for good books." - Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune"
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The University of Chicago Press Sealed in Parchment
Book SynopsisThe 44 surviving manuscripts of the work of Chretien de Troyes pose a number of questions about who used these books and in what way. In Sealed in Parchment, Sandra Hindman scrutinizes both text and images to reveal what the manuscripts can tell us about medieval society and politics.
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The University of Chicago Press A Commentary on The Complete Greek Tragedies.
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The University of Chicago Press The Theatricality of Greek Tradegy Playing Space
Book SynopsisAncient Greek tragedy has been an inspiration to Western culture, but the way it was first performed has long remained in question. In The Theatricality of Greek Tragedy, Graham Ley provides an illuminating discussion of key issues relating to the use of the playing space and the nature of the chorus, offering a distinctive impression of the performance of Greek tragedy in the fifth century BCE.Drawing on evidence from the surviving texts of tragedies by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, Ley explains how scenes with actors were played in the open ground of the orchestra, often considered as exclusively the dancing place of the chorus. In reviewing what is known of the music and dance of Greek antiquity, Ley goes on to show that in the original productions the experience of the chorusexpressed in song and dance and in interaction with the charactersremained a vital characteristic in the performance of tragedy. Combining detailed analysis with broader reflections about the nature of a
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The University of Chicago Press Poetic Justice Rereading Platos Republic
Book SynopsisWhen Plato set his dialogs, written texts were disseminated primarily by performance and recitation. He wrote them, however, when literacy was expanding. Jill Frank argues that there are unique insights to be gained from appreciating Plato's dialogs as written texts to be read and reread. At the center of these insights are two distinct ways of learning to read in the dialogs. One approach that appears in the Statesman, Sophist, and Protagoras, treats learning to read as a top-down affair, in which authoritative teachers lead students to true beliefs. Another, recommended by Socrates, encourages trial and error and the formation of beliefs based on students' own fallible experiences. In all of these dialogs, learning to read is likened to coming to know or understand something. Given Plato's repeated presentation of the analogy between reading and coming to know, what can these two approaches tell us about his dialogs' representations of philosophy and politics? With Poetic Justice, Ji
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The University of Chicago Press Staging Contemplation Participatory Theology in
Book SynopsisAn English lit account of how contemplation worked for medieval audiences and how works were presented to readers at the time to aid them in achieving a contemplative state.
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The University of Chicago Press The Soul of Tragedy Essays on Athenian Drama
Book SynopsisBrings together scholars to offer perspectives on the Greek tragedy. The collection pays homage to this genre by offering an exploration into the oldest form of dramatic expression. This book is a celebration and a model of collaboration that will be useful reading for scholars in classics, literature, and drama.
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The University of Chicago Press Remembering Repeating On Miltons Theology and
Book SynopsisIn this graceful and compelling book, Regina Schwartz presents a powerful reading of Paradise Lost by tracing the structure of the poem to the pattern of repeated beginnings found in the Bible. In both works, the world order is constantly threatened by chaos. By drawing on both the Bible and the more contemporary works of, among others, Freud, Lacan, Ricoeur, Said, and Derrida, Schwartz argues that chaos does not simply threaten order, but rather, chaos inheres in order. A brilliant study that quietly but powerfully recharacterizes many of the contexts of discussion in Milton criticism. Particularly noteworthy is Schwartz's ability to introduce advanced theoretical perspectives without ever taking the focus of attention away from the dynamics and problematics of Milton's poem.--Stanley Fish
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University of Chicago Press The Unrepentant Renaissance From Petrarch to
Book SynopsisWho during the Renaissance could have dissented from the values of reason and restraint, patience and humility, rejection of the worldly and the physical? This title counters the prevalent view of the period as dominated by the regulation of bodies and passions, intending to reclaim the Renaissance as an era happily churning with energies.Trade Review"Well-articulated, intelligent, and written with the ease and confidence of a mature scholar. There is nothing in this book that isn't freshly thought through in an energetic and open way." (Gordon Braden, University of Virginia)"
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The University of Chicago Press Lost Property The Woman Writer English Literary
Book SynopsisExamining the history of the representations of women writers from Margery Kemp and Christine de Pizan to Elizabeth I and Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, this volume shows how the woman writer came to embody alienation from tradition.
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The University of Chicago Press Common Prayer
Book SynopsisThis text explores the relationship between prayer and poetry in the century following the Protestant Reformation. The author challenges the conventional and largely misleading distinctions between the ritualized worlds of Catholicism and the more individualistic focus of Protestantism.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin The Complete Poetry of Catullus
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Back Bay Books So We Read on
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WW Norton & Co The Song of Roland
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WW Norton & Co Piers Plowman An Alliterative Verse Translation
Book SynopsisA translation of the 14th century poem, which offers a picture of society in the late Middle Ages on the threshold of the early modern world.
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