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The Catholic University of America Press The Rose and Geryon The Poetics of Fraud and
Book SynopsisWe live in a world in which we watch our words, spoken or written. We do not wish to offend anyone by what we say. But consideration of our speech is not something new. As Gabriella Baika stakes out in this thought-provoking manuscript, worries about transgressive speech began in the High Middle Ages. This broad-ranging book explores the notion of peccata linguae “sins of the tongue”.
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Ohio State University Press Latin Elegy and Narratology Fragments of Story
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Ohio State University Press Catullus in Verona A Reading of the Elegiac
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Ohio State University Press Desiring Rome Male Subjectivity and Reading Ovids
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Ohio State University Press Reading Death in Ancient Rome
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Ohio State University Press Reflections of Romanity Discourses of
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Ohio State University Press How to Make a Human Animals and Violence in the
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Ohio State University Press Fashioning Change The Trope of Clothing in High
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Ohio State University Press Translating Troy Provincial Politics in
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Ohio State University Press Trading Tongues Merchants Multilingualism and
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Ohio State University Press Imagining the Parish in Late Medieval England
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Quest Books,U.S. The Hero and the Goddess The Odyssey as Pathway
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Carcanet Press Ltd Sappho Through English Poetry 27
Book SynopsisThe poetry of Sappho, who was born around 620 BC and lived on the Greek island of Lesbos, has inspired and fascinated readers and poets for two and a half thousand years. As in antiquity, she is regarded as Greece's supreme lyric poet. This book traces Sappho's reception in English-language poetry through translations and poems about her.Trade Review'Sappho Through English Poetry' is a brilliant idea - You find you're following English poetry over four centuries through the prism of two Greek poems, like a CD of Callas, Joan Sutherland, Piaf, Billie Holiday, Bjork and the Spice Girls all singing the same song.' - Ruth Padel, The Observer'What this collection achieves is a commentary on our own literary history, rather than simply a nod to a great classical poet.' - Jane Holland, Poetry Review
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University of Exeter Press Vida De Segundo Exeter Hispanic Texts Version
Book SynopsisThe Vita Secundi is a Greek text of the second century AD. The substantial introduction to the edition deals with the motives for the work's translation into Spanish, tracks the extent of its diffusion in Spain, and analyses in detail the textual history of the Spanish version.Trade Review ‘The volume is fully indexed, and in view of its adept and knowledgeable treatment of the subject, it will become essential reading.’ (Bulletin of Spanish Studies, Vol. LXXX, No. 1, 2003) Table of Contents
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Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers,U.S. Menaechmi
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Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers,U.S. Bedes Historia Ecclesiastical
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Michigan State University Press Who is Buried in Chaucers Tomb Studies in the
Book SynopsisExamines the history of books that we know as Chaucer's - a history that includes printers and publishers, editors, antiquarians, librarians, and book collectors.Trade ReviewA specialist study that makes an important contribution to the considerable corpus on Chaucer... -- Years Work in English Studies, Spring 2002.
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Michigan State University Press Troilus and Criseyde
Book SynopsisDescribed by Barry Windeatt as Chaucer's most ambitious single achievement, his masterpiece, Troilus and Criseyde is the first work in English to depict human passion with such sympathy and understanding.
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American School of Classical Studies at Athens Swans and Amber
Book SynopsisFrom papyrus rolls, copied and recycled through the centuries, hundreds of short extracts written by Greek poets in the 7th and 6th centuries B.C. survive. This lovely collection, translated into English by a leading classicist, presents a selection of ca. 100 poems by 17 authors with useful historical introductions.
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PIMS Mediaeval Studies 85 2023
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Griffith Institute The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant Volume 0
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Griffith Institute Thirteen Coptic Acrostic Hymns Volume 0 Griffith
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Griffith Institute Coptic and Greek Texts Relating to the
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Griffith Institute Crowns in Egyptian Funerary Literature Royalty
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Medieval Institute Publications Word Picture and Spectacle 5 Early Drama Art and
Book SynopsisEssays addressing issues in the study of medieval art, literature, and drama. The topics covered include scatological illustration in Gothic manuscripts, connections between word and picture in religious art, perceived relationship between divine and human creativity and an exploration in the phenomenology of space and time in medieval theater.Table of ContentsPreface The Symbolic Significance of Figurae Scatologicae in Gothic Manuscripts by Karl P. Wentersdorf The Word in Religious Art of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance by Roger Ellis Space and Time in Medieval Drama: Meditations on Orientation in the Early Theater by Clifford Davidson Ut enim faber...sic creator: Divine Creation as Context for Human Creativity in the Twelfth Century by R. W. Hanning
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Medieval Institute Publications Studia Occitanica
Book SynopsisThe first of two volumes dedicated to the memory of Paul Remy and having as theme the scientific domain to which he had dedicated his research for nearly forty years: the Occitan literature and language.Table of ContentsPreface Paul Remy (1919–1979) by Patrick Collard La dreicha maniera de trobar: Von der Bedeutung der provenzalischen Dichtung für das europäische Geistesleben by Richard Baum Les troubadours dans la Divine Comédie: Un problème d'onomastique poétique by Raoul Blomme Le personnage de Frédéric II dans la poésie lyrique d'oc du XIIIe siècle by Charles Brucker Appunti in margine al discordo plurilingue di Raimbaut de Vaqueiras by Furio Brugnolo De la folie à la mort: Images de l'individu chez Peire Cardenal dans les pièces Una ciutatz fo, no sai cals et Un sirventes novel vueill comensar by Geneviève Crémieux Une réminiscence hébraique dans la musique du troubadour Guillaume IX by Marie-Henriette Fernandez The Seasonal Topos in the Old Provençal canso: A Reassessment by Eliza Miruna Ghil Ben feira chanso (PC 194,3) by Marc-René Jung La conception de la fin'amor chez quelques troubadours by Jean Larmat A propos de deux mélodies de Raimon Jordan by Jean Maillard Les vers longs de Guillaume d’Aquitaine by Ulrich Mölk Lyrisme et sincérité: Sur une chanson de Bernart de Ventadorn by Don A. Monson Critical Positions on Marcabru: From Christian Misogynist to Spokesman for fin'amors by Deborah Nelson L'image des saisons dans la poésie d'Arnaut Daniel by Marie-Françoise Notz Et ai be faih co 1 fols en pon: Bernart de Ventadorn, Jacques de Vitry, and Q. Horatius Flaccus by William D. Paden Jr. L'inspiration poularisante chez Bernard de Ventadour by Jean Charles Payen Guilhem Molinier as Literary Critic by Wendy Pfeffer Texte à l'endroit, monde à l'envers: Sur une chanson de Raimbaut d'Aurenga, Ar resplan la flors enversa by Alice Planche Le troubadour Palais: Édition critique, traduction et commentaire by Peter T. Ricketts En prélude à une nouvelle édition de Pons de Capdoill: La chanson Us gais conortz me fai gajamen far by Jean-Claude Rivière Le somni de Guillem de Saint-Didier by Aimo Sakari La conception poétique de quelques troubadours tardifs by Elisabeth Schulze-Busacker Amour courtois et amour divin chez Raimbaut d'Orange by Arié Serper Love Poems with Political Hearts: Bertran de Born and the Courtly Language of War by Patricia Harris Stäblein Farai chansoneta nueva by Antoine Tavera De la rupture comme principe esthétique de sirventes by Suzanne Thiolier-Méjean Diversity despite Similarity: Two Middle High German contrafacta of a Provençal Song by Stephanie Cain Van D'Elden Raimbaut d'Orange Qi tals motz fai / c'anc mais non foron dig cantan (éd. Pattison, ch. XVI, vv. 5-6; PC 389,37) by Marc Vuijlsteke The Varying 'I's of Troubadour Lyric by James J. Wilhelm Ai Deus! car no sui ironda? by Werner Ziltener
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Medieval Institute Publications John Gower
Book SynopsisThe 13 essays included here all represent a fresh approach by North American and European scholars to offer a representative sample of the many diverse directions taken by Gower studies today. The essays demonstrate the life still present in Gower's work and serve as both an excellent introduction and update on the state of Gower scholarship.Table of ContentsContents Illustrations Introduction Nature and the Good in Gower's Confessio Amantis by Hugh White Gather Ye Rosebuds: Gower's Comic Reply to Jean de Meun by James Dean Genial Gower: Laughter in the Confessio Amantis by Linda Barney Burke Constance and the World in Chaucer and Gower by Winthrop Wetherbee Gower, Chaucer, and the Classics: Back to the Textual Evidence by Gotz Schmitz Did Gower Write Cento? by R. F. Yeager Gower's Source Manuscript of Nicholas Trevet's Les Cronicles by Robert M. Correale John Gower and the Book of Daniel by Russell A. Peck Gower's Metaethics by Michael P. Kuczynski God's Faithfulness and the Lover's Despair: The Theological Framework of the Iphis and Araxarethan Story by David G. Allen Aspects of Gentilesse in John Gower's Confessio Amantis, Books III-V by Kurt Olsson The Illustrations in New College MS. 266 for Gower's Conversion Tales by Peter C. Braeger Miniatures as Evidence of Reading in a Manuscript of the Confessio Amantis (Pierpont Morgan MS. M. 126) by Patricia Eberle Contributors
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McMaster University Press The YearNames of the First Dynasty of Babylon
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McMaster University Press The YearNames of the First Dynasty of Babylon
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ISD International The Yearbook of Langland Studies 1 1987
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ISD International Year Book of Langland Studies Vol 2
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ISD International The Year Book of Langland Studies Vol 3
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ISD International The Yearbook of Langland Studies 5 1991
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ISD International The Yearbook of Langland Studies 6 1992
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ISD International Year Book of Langland Studies Vol 7
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ISD International The Yearbook of Langland Studies 9 1995
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Eisenbrauns Essays in Memory of E. A. Speiser
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American Oriental Society Studies in Literature from the Ancient Near East
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Michigan Classical Press Polybius Book I A Commentary
Book SynopsisDavid D. Phillips presents a commentary on Polybius' first book. Volume includes the definitive text by Theodor Buttner-Wobst, with detailed commentary on points of linguistic and historical interest, and an introduction to Polybius' life, the Histories and Polybian language, style, and tone. An index of Greek words is included.Trade Review 'a long-awaited contribution to Polybian scholarship, as it focuses on the historian's language and style and opens up this difficult text to those in need of more direction. 'The fact that this volume was used to and is intended to teach from is clear from the presentation of Polybius' original text. The Greek is printed in a clear and easily readable font, the number of the passages are presented at the top of each page, and the individual passage numbers within the text are highlighted in bold for ease of identification. '... it will open doors to the teaching, analysis and reception of Polybius. It will hopefully be the impetus for further linguistic commentaries on Polybius' work, and the start of a new direction in the teaching of post-classical koinê Greek.' Emma Nicholson, University of Exeter -- Emma Nicholson, University of Exeter * Histos 12 (2018) *Teachers and students reading Polybius in Greek will find this commentary to be a useful asset for understanding the language and context of the first book of the Histories. [...]I recommend this commentary as a companion text for students reading Polybius in Greek at the advanced undergraduate, post-baccalaureate, or early graduate levels. Daniel Walker Moore, University of Virginia -- Daniel Walker Moore, University of Virginia * Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2017.11.54 *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Complete Greek Text of Book Commentary Index of Greek Words
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Handbook to the Reception of Greek Drama
Book SynopsisA Handbook to the Reception of Greek Drama offers a series of original essays that represent a comprehensive overview of the global reception of ancient Greek tragedies and comedies from antiquity to the present day.Table of ContentsForeword x List of Illustrations xi Notes on Contributors xiii Note on Nomenclature and Spelling xviii Introduction 1Betine van Zyl Smit Part I The Ancient World 11 1 The Reception of Greek Tragedy from 500 to 323 BC 13Martin Revermann 2 Greek Comedy and its Reception, c. 500–323 BC 29Alan H. Sommerstein 3 Greek Drama in the Hellenistic World 45Sarah Miles 4 Greek Comedy at Rome 63Peter Brown 5 Roman Tragedy 78Gesine Manuwald Part II Transition 95 6 Ancient Drama in the Medieval World 97Carol Symes Part III The Renewal of Ancient Drama 131 7 The Reception of Ancient Drama in Renaissance Italy 133Francesca Schironi 8 Ancient Drama in the French Renaissance and up to Louis XIV 154Rosie Wyles 9 The Reception of Greek Drama in Early Modern England 173Claire Kenward Part IV The Modern and Contemporary World 199 10 Greece: A History of Turns, Traditions, and Transformations 201Gonda Van Steen 11 The History of Ancient Drama in Modern Italy 221Martina Treu 12 The Reception of Greek Theater in France since 1700 238Cécile Dudouyt 13 Germany, Austria, and Switzerland 257Anton Bierl 14 The Reception of Greek Drama in Belgium and the Netherlands 283Thomas Crombez 15 The Reception of Greek Drama in England from the Seventeenth to the Twenty]First Century 304Betine van Zyl Smit 16 Conquering England: Ireland and Greek Tragedy 323Fiona Macintosh 17 The Reception of Greek Drama in the Czech Republic 337Eva Stehlíková 18 Antigone, Medea, and Civilization and Barbarism in Spanish American History 348Aníbal A. Biglieri 19 Greek Drama in the Arab World 364Mohammad Almohanna 20 The Reception of Greek Tragedy in Japan 382Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. 21 Greek Drama in North America 397Peter Meineck 22 Greek Drama in Australia 422Paul Monaghan 23 The Reception of Greek Drama in Africa: “A Tradition That Intends to Be Established” 446Barbara Goff 24 Greek Drama in Opera 464Michael Ewans 25 Filmed Tragedy 486Kenneth MacKinnon References 506 Index 552
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Renaissance Poetry
Book SynopsisThe most comprehensive collection of essays on Renaissance poetry on the market Covering the period 15201680, A Companion to Renaissance Poetry offers 46 essays which present an in-depth account of the context, production, and interpretation of early modern British poetry. It provides students with a deep appreciation for, and sensitivity toward, the ways in which poets of the period understood and fashioned a distinctly vernacular voice, while engaging them with some of the debates and departures that are currently animating the discipline. A Companion to Renaissance Poetry analyzes the historical, cultural, political, and religious background of the time, addressing issues such as education, translation, the Reformation, theorizations of poetry, and more. The book immerses readers in non-dramatic poetry from Wyatt to Milton, focusing on the key poetic genresepic, lyric, complaint, elegy, epistle, pastoral, satire, and religious poetry. It also offers an inclusive account of the poTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors ix Preface xvii Acknowledgments xx Part I Contexts 1 Transitions and Translations 3 1 The Medieval Inheritance of Early Tudor Poetry 3Seth Lerer 2 Translation and Translations 16A. E. B. Coldiron 3 Instructive Nymphs: Andrew Marvell on Pedagogy and Puberty 31Lynn Enterline Religions and Reformations 50 4 Poetry and Sacrament in the English Renaissance 50Gary Kuchar 5 “A sweetness ready penn’d”?: English Religious Poetics in the Reformation Era 63Susannah Brietz Monta Authorships and Authorities 78 6 Manuscript Culture: Circulation and Transmission 78Steven W. May and Arthur F. Marotti 7 Miscellanies in Manuscript and Print 103Jonathan Gibson 8 Renaissance Authorship: Practice versus Attribution 115Stephen B. Dobranski 9 Female Authorship 128Wendy Wall 10 Stakes of Hagiography: Izaak Walton and the Making of the “Religious Poet” 141Jonathan Crewe Defenses and Definitions 154 11 Theories and Philosophies of Poetry 154Robert Matz 12 Tudor Verse Form: Rudeness, Artifice, and Display 166Joseph Loewenstein 13 Genre: The Idea and Work of Literary Form 183Patrick Cheney Part II Forms and Genres 199 Epic and Epyllion 201 14 Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene 201Gordon Teskey 15 Paradise Lost: Experimental and Unorthodox Sacred Epic 214David Loewenstein 16 Forms of Creativity in Lucy Hutchinson’s Order and Disorder 227Shannon Miller 17 The Epyllion 239Jim Ellis Lyric 250 18 Petrarchism and Its Counterdiscourses: The Sonnet Tradition from Wyatt to Milton 250Gordon Braden 19 Wyatt and Surrey: Songs and Sonnets 262Chris Stamatakis 20 Synecdochic Structures in the Sonnet Sequences of Sidney and Spenser 276Catherine Bates 21 “I am lunaticke”: Michael Drayton, Samuel Daniel, and the Evolution of the Lyric 289Danijela Kambaskovic]Schwartz 22 Art and History Then: Reading Shakespeare’s Sonnet 146 303Christopher Warley 23 Metapoetry and the Subject of the Poem in Donne and Marvell 314Barbara Correll 24 Jonson and the Cavalier Poets 325Syrithe Pugh Complaint and Elegy 339 25 Complaint 339Rosalind Smith, Michelle O’Callaghan, and Sarah C. E. Ross 26 Funeral Elegy 353Andrea Brady Epistolary and Dialogic Forms 365 27 Letters of Address, Letters of Exchange 365M. L. Stapleton 28 Answer Poetry and Other Verse “Conversations” 376Cathy Shrank Satire, Pastoral, and Popular Poetry 389 29 Verse Satire 389Michelle O’Callaghan 30 Proper Work, Willing Waste: Pastoral and the English Poet 401Catherine Nicholson 31 Digging into “Veritable Dunghills”: Re]appreciating Renaissance Broadside Ballads 414Patricia Fumerton Religious Poetry 432 32 Female Piety and Religious Poetry 432Femke Molekamp 33 The Psalms 446Hannibal Hamlin 34 Donne and Herbert 459Helen Wilcox Part III Positions and Debates 471 35 Archipelagic Identities 473Willy Maley 36 Chorography, Map]Mindedness, Poetics of Place 485Andrew Hadfield 37 Masculinity 498Joseph Campana 38 Queer Studies 510Stephen Guy]Bray 39 Sensation, Passion, and Emotion 519Douglas Trevor 40 The Body in Renaissance Poetry 531Michael Schoenfeldt 41 Poetry and the Material Text 545Adam Smyth 42 Science and Technology 557Jessica Wolfe 43 Economic Criticism 570William J. Kennedy 44 New Historicism, New Formalism, and Thy Darling in an Urn 583Richard Strier 45 Allegory 595Kenneth Borris 46 The Sublime 611Patrick Cheney Index 628
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Epic and History
Book SynopsisWith contributions from leading scholars, this is a unique cross-cultural comparison of historical epics across a wide range of cultures and time periods, which presents crucial insights into how history is treated in narrative poetry.Trade Review"I would recommend this volume both for scholars of epic and heroic literature (especially if they have interests in comparative literature or in questions of orality and historicity), who will no doubt enjoy its generally succinct essays with pertinent bibliography for each tradition." (Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 9 February 2011) "Essential. Graduate students and researchers." (Choice, October 2010)Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables vii Notes on Contributors viii Series Editor’s Preface xiv 1 Introduction 1 David Konstan and Kurt A. Raaflaub 2 Maybe Epic: The Origins and Reception of Sumerian Heroic Poetry 7 Piotr Michalowski 3 Historical Events and the Process of Their Transformation in Akkadian Heroic Traditions 26 Joan Goodnick Westenholz 4 Epic and History in Hittite Anatolia: In Search of a Local Hero 51 Amir Gilan 5 Manly Deeds: Hittite Admonitory History and Eastern Mediterranean Didactic Epic 66 Mary R. Bachvarova 6 Epic and History in the Hebrew Bible: Definitions, “Ethnic Genres,” and the Challenges of Cultural Identity in the Biblical Book of Judges 86 Susan Niditch 7 No Contest between Memory and Invention: The Invention of the Pa08ava Heroes of the MahAbhArata 103 James L. Fitzgerald 8 From “Imperishable Glory” to History: The Iliad and the Trojan War 122 Jonas Grethlein 9 Historical Narrative in Archaic and Early Classical Greek Elegy 145 Ewen Bowie 10 Fact, Fiction, and Form in Early Roman Epic 167 Sander M. Goldberg 11 The Song and the Sword: Silius’s Punica and the Crisis of Early Imperial Epic 185 Raymond D. Marks 12 The Burden of Mortality: Alexander and the Dead in Persian Epic and Beyond 212 Olga M. Davidson 13 Slavic Epic: Past Tales and Present Myths 223 Susana Torres Prieto 14 Historicity and Anachronism in Beowulf 243 Geoffrey Russom 15 The Nibelungenlied – Myth and History: A Middle High German Epic Poem at the Crossroads of Past and Present, Despair and Hope 262 Albrecht Classen 16 Medieval Epic and History in the Romance Literatures 280 Joseph J. Duggan 17 Roland’s Migration from Anglo-Norman Epic to Royal French Chronicle History 293 Michel-André Bossy 18 A Recurrent Theme of the Spanish Medieval Epic: Complaints and Laments by Noble Women 310 Mercedes Vaquero 19 History in Medieval Scandinavian Heroic Literature and the Northwest European Context 328 Robert D. Fulk 20 Traditional History in South Slavic Oral Epic 347 John Miles Foley 21 Lord Five Thunder and the 12 Eagles and Jaguars of Rabinal Meet Charlemagne and the 12 Knights of France 362 Dennis Tedlock 22 History, Myth, and Social Function in Southern African Nguni Praise Poetry 381 Richard Whitaker 23 Epic and History in the Arabic Tradition 392 Dwight F. Reynolds 24 Comments on “Epic and History” 411 Dean Miller Index 425
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Prodigious Muse
Book SynopsisJuxtaposing religious and secular writings by women and tracing their relationship to the male-authored literature of the period, often surprisingly affirmative in its attitudes toward women, Cox reveals a new and provocative vision of the Italian Counter-Reformation as a period far less uniformly repressive of women than is commonly assumed.Trade ReviewThis is a worthy sequel to Cox's last book, full of little-studied literature, some of it completely new. Choice Highly recommended to all, offering new faces and new facts, even a new tone in female authors suffering in an age of misogyny. Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance An important contribution to a field about which too little is now written. -- Kathleen Olive Parergon To list the many literary discoveries of this book would be an impresa difficult even for the many guerriere of the Counter-Reformation, let alone for a reviewer constricted by space... astonishing research. -- Laura Giannetti Sixteenth Century Journal As Cox stresses, the religious literature of this period has, like that of women, been comprehensively neglected for far too long. -- Jane Everson Times Literary Supplement Such a wide-ranging and thoughtful book makes an impressive contribution to what is a lively and developing field, and will surely encourage further research on the complexities of women's writing in these particular decades in Italy and beyond. -- Clare Copeland Journal of Ecclesiastical History Building on her encyclopedic Women's Writing in Italy, 1400-1650 (2008), Virginia Cox's latest monograph, The Prodigious Muse, continues to emphasize the depth and breadth of early modern Italian women's writing... The Prodigious Muse amply sustains its argument that understanding early modern women's writing requires assimilating the full range of authors and genres at play in the later sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries -- Sarah Gwyneth Ross Journal of Modern History After the acclaimed Women's Writing in Italy 1450-1650, in which Virginia Cox offered a crucial critical overview of the phenomenon of Renaissance women writers, she now develops the most critically innovative section of her previous work with this important, intriguing, impressive, beautifully written, and comprehensive new book. The Prodigious Muse -- which implies in its title the variety, ambition, originality, and exceptionality of women's creativity of the period -- is the result of a huge amount of research that opens the way to a new perspective on late-sixteenth- and early-seventeenth-century literature and culture, not only contributing to studies of women but also offering a new view of the history of Counter-Reformation politics and culture. The book is fascinating reading for those who want to learn more on the subject. It proposes a stimulating and well-documented new approach, offering important sources of information to those who work on Counter-Reformation literature and history, as well as on women's writing. -- Eleanora Carinci Catholic Historical ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter One: Contexts1. The Female Writer in Context: Opportunities, Attitudes, Models2. Women's Writing and the Counter-Reformation3. Religious Writing in Post-Tridentine Italy: A Poetics of Conversion4. Secular Writing in Post-Tridentine Italy: The New Sensualism and the Misogynist TurnChapter Two: Lyric Verse1. Women's Lyric Output, 1580–16302. Pietosi avetti: Spiritual Lyric and the Female Poet3. The Dwindling Muse: Female-Authored Secular Lyric in Post-Tridentine ItalyChapter Three: Drama1. Drama for the Doge: Moderata Fonte's Le feste2. Arcadian Adventures: Women Writers and Pastoral Drama3. The Challenge of Tragedy: Valeria Miani's CelindaChapter Four: Sacred Narrative1. Women Writers and the New Sacred Narrative2. Refashioning the Gospels: New Testament Narrative in Moderata Fonte and Francesca Turina3. Hagiographic Epic: Lucrezia Marinella's Lives of Saints Columba and Francis4. Hagiographic Epic Remade: Marinella's Lives of Mary and Saint Catherine of Siena5. A Medicean Sacred Epic: Maddalena Salvetti's David perseguitatoChapter Five: Secular Narrative1. Women Writers and the Literature of Chivalry2. Ideology and History in Female-Authored Chivalric Epic3. Gender, Arms, and Love in Female-Authored Chivalric Fiction4. The Fortunes of Female-Authored Chivalric Fiction5. Beyond Chivalry: Lucrezia Marinella's Experiments in Mythological Epic and Pastoral RomanceChapter Six: Discursive Prose1. Output and Principal Trends2. Authorizing Women: The Problem of Docere3. Preachers in Print: Religious Institutio in Maddalena Campiglia and Chiara Matraini4. Proclaiming Women's Worth: Fonte, Marinella, and the Querelle des femmesCodaAppendix: Italian Women Writers Active 1580-1635NotesBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Remembering the Crusades
Book SynopsisIts unprecedented multidisciplinary and cross-cultural approach points the way to a complete reevaluation of the place of the crusades in medieval and modern societies.Trade ReviewThis is a fascinating book that ever historian and history buff should read and use as a reference, but it must be mandatory reading for all students of history in all universities. -- Hrayr Berberoglu Winesworld's Magazine Editors and contributors alike deserve praise for a timely and closely knit collection that shows what can be done in this new field of query. -- Norman Housley Catholic Historical ReviewTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Crusading and the Work of Memory, Past and PresentPart I: Remembrance and ResponseChapter 1. Memory, Wonder, and Desire in the Travels of Ibn Jubayr and Ibn BattutaChapter 2. Constructing Memories of Martyrdom: Contrasting Portrayals of Martyrdom in the Hebrew Narratives of the First and Second CrusadeChapter 3. Lambert of Saint-Omer and the Apocalyptic First CrusadePart II: Sites and Structures: Cities, Buildings, and BodiesChapter 4. Remembering the Crusades in the Fabric of Buildings: Preliminary Thoughts about Alternating VoussoirsChapter 5. Commemorating the Fall of Jerusalem: Remembering the First Crusade in Text, Liturgy, and ImageChapter 6. Erasing the Body: History and Memory in Medieval Siege PoetryChapter 7. The Servile Mother: Jerusalem as Woman in the Era of the CrusadesPart III: Institutional Memory and Community IdentityChapter 8. Saladin in Sunni and Shi'a MemoriesChapter 9. Paul the Martyr and Venetian Memories of the Fourth CrusadeChapter 10. Aspects of Hospitaller and Templar Memory Chapter 11. Visual Self-Fashioning and the Seals of the Knights Hospitaller in EnglandList of Contributors Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Empire of the Self
Book SynopsisHe demonstrates a significant point of contact between two writers generally thought to be antagonists-the idea that imperial speech structures reveal the self.Trade ReviewThis [review] can hardly do justice to the scope and richness of Star's argument in each chapter, to the thoroughness with which he discusses his chosen texts, and to the creativity with which he exploits his simultaneous treatments of Seneca and Petronius. This book makes a major contribution to the modern bibliography of selfhood and self-formation in the early empire, and it will doubtless generate further debate in so vibrant an area of study. -- Gareth Williams Classical Journal With this book, Star contributes to a growing body of scholarship on the construction of the self in classical antiquity. Choice If this book only managed to demonstrate -- as it unquestionably does -- the complementary intertexuality of the Satyricon with Senecan philosophy, that alone would be a noteworthy achievement. But in fact The Empire of the Self is rife with compelling readings of its target texts that have ramifications beyond a narrow understanding of either author of their relationship to one another. Star's study offers its readers valuable insights into the governing metaphors and preoccupations of the Roman intelligentsia in the mid-first century CE. -- Amanda Wilcox Bryn Mawr Classical Review Star has performed a valuable service in presenting a fresh approach to familiar authors which helps the discussion to move beyond some of the established academic truisms of the last few decades, and identifying the common conceptual ground that they share. He offers us a fresh perspective on both Seneca's and Petronius' views of self-fashioning, making a major contribution to several recent areas of interest within classics. Both graduate students and scholars working on Neronian literature or Roman concepts of identity will benefit from reading Star's argument. HermathenaTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Soul-Shaping Speech1. Senecan Philosophy and the Psychology of Command2. Self-Address in Senecan Tragedy3. Self-Address in the SatyriconPart II: Soul-Revealing Speech4. Political Speech in Declementia5. Soul, Speech, and Politics in the Apocolocyntosisand the Satyricon6. Writing, Body, and MoneyEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Roman Literary Culture
Book SynopsisThis edition includes a new preface and an updated bibliography.Trade ReviewFantham offers a succinct but generous guide to recent scholarship in Latin literature. I heartily recommend her book to scholars of Latin literature, to instructors seeking a textbook for History of Latin Literature courses and to graduate students studying for exams. -- T. Keith Dix Sharp NewsTable of ContentsPreface to the Second EditionPreface to the First EditionIntroductionToward a Social History of Latin LiteratureAuthor, Audience, and MediumEnnius and Cato, Two Early WritersNew Genres of Literature, from Lucilius to ApuleiusGeneric PreoccupationsChapter OneStarting from ScratchDrama—The First Literary GenreComedy: Naevius, Plautus, and TerenceThe Tragic TraditionPatriotism and History in Poetry and ProseThe First Latin History: Cato's OriginesFrom the Gracchi to Sulla: Lucilian Satire and the New IndividualismCatullus and LucretiusChapter TwoRome at the End of the RepublicRoman Education, for Better or WorseLiterature and NationalismLiterature and the AmateurLiterary Studies and the Recreation of Literary HistoryLiterature and Scholarship: Cicero's Evidence for the Studies of Caesar and VarroChapter ThreeThe Coming of the Principate: "Augustan" Literary CultureThe Survivors: The New Poets Gallus and VirgilThe Roman Poetry Book, a New Literary FormPrivate and Public PatronageThe Emperor as Theme and PatronThe Best of Patrons, and the Patron's Greater FriendPerformance and ReadershipSpoken and Written Prose in Augustan Society: Rhetoric as Training and DisplayThe First Real HistoriesChapter FourUn-Augustan ActivitiesThe Literature of YouthLove and ElegyOvid the Scapegoat, and the Sorrows of AugustusInnocence and Power of the BookChapter FiveAn Inhibited Generation: Suppression and SurvivalPermissible Literature: ProseMoral Treatises and LettersDidactic and Descriptive PoetryThe Tastes and Prejudices of Augustus's Imperial SuccessorsThe Divergence of Theater and DramaChapter SixBetween Nero and Domitian: The Challenge to PoetryThe Neronian RevivalPoetry and Parody in a New SettingVicissitudes of the Epic MuseProfessional Poets in the Time of DomitianChapter SevenLiterature and the Governing Classes: From the Accession of Vespasian to the Death of TrajanEquestrian and Senatorial Writers: A Changing EliteChoices of Literary Career: Fame or Survival?Pliny's Letters and His Literary WorldThe Public World of the Senator and OratorThe World of the AuditoriumChapter EightLiterary Culture in Decline: The Antonine YearsHadrian, the PhilhelleneThe Traveling SophistsThe Provinces and Latin CultureMarcus Aurelius and His TeachersAulus Gellius, the Eternal Student in Rome and GreeceApuleius, the Ultimate Word ArtistChapter NineClassical Literary Culture and the Impact of ChristianityTertullian and His SuccessorsDiocletian and a Generation of Political ChangeAusoniusThe Controversy over the Altar of Victory: Symmachus and PrudentiusClaudianThe Maturity of Christian Prose: Jerome and AugustineMacrobius: The Last Celebrant of Secular Literary CultureNotesBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Lure of the Arcane
Book SynopsisAfter much investigation, Ziolkowski reinforces Umberto Eco's notion that the most powerful secret, the magnetic center of conspiracy fiction, is in fact a secret without content.Trade ReviewConspiracies, whether attributed to mystery cults, Freemasons, Socialists, or Rosicrucians, pervade literature from Euripides to Umberto Eco, as Theodore Ziolkowski shows in Lure of the Arcane. Ziolkowski has read everything, taking even a 3,000-page German novel in his stride, and summarizes and analyses his material fascinatingly for lesser mortals. Times Literary Supplement Ziolkowski is excellently placed to attempt the construction of a genre history... As such, his treatment of the literature and the array of texts included is predictably masterful, moving with ease from Greek and Roman mysteries in antiquity to the Medieval representations of the Knights Templar, through the Rosicrucian manifestoes and the German Enlightenment lodge novels, to the literary depictions of secret societies of Romantic Socialism. Nova Religio This is a literary and cultural history for the twenty-first century: fascinating in scope and focus, striking in its attention to detail, solid in its continuity, and indisputably erudite. Choice An erudite, thought-provoking argument for considering this literary engagement as a sub-genre in its own right. Times Literary Supplement The wealth of examples, the lively and indeed intimate writing style, and the delicate refusal to go too far in the analysis of paranoid fantasies all contribute to a welcome dealing with mystery, secrecy, and the arcane. Modern PhilologyTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1. The Mystery Cults of Antiquity2. The Order of Knights Templar in the Middle Ages3. The Rosicrucians of the Post-Reformation4. The Lodges of the Enlightenment5. Secret Societies of Romantic Socialism6. Modern Variations7. Interlude: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion8. The Playfulness of PostmodernismConclusionNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Rethinking the New Medievalism
Book SynopsisOther contributors include Jack Abecassis, Marina Brownlee, Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet, Andreas Kablitz, and Ursula Peters.Trade ReviewThe present volume in many ways celebrates and continues Nichols's ideas and influence in the past 25 years, but it does much more than that. As Bloch (French and Romance philology, Columbia Univ.) puts it in his introduction, the essays "contain many elements belonging to the New Philology-an attention to the material conditions of the medieval work, especially to the givens of manuscript culture, a questioning of authorship and authority, an interrogation of the integrity of medieval texts, recognition of the relation between the verbal and the visual."... Nichols's discussion of the challenges and opportunities for new philology in the digital age will be required reading in graduate seminars on digital humanities. Choice The essays ranged here by German and American scholars, in homage to Nichols and his cohort of new materialists, new philologists, new medievalists, are strong and ambitious attempts to revisit the twenty-year-old call for methodological reinvention. Common KnowledgeTable of ContentsIntroduction. The New Philology Comes of AgeChapter 1. New Challenges for the New MedievalismChapter 2. Reflections on The New PhilologyChapter 3. Virgil's "Perhaps": Mythopoiesis and Cosmogony in Dante's Commedia (Remarks on Inf. 34, 106–26)Chapter 4. Dialectic of the Medieval CourseChapter 5. Religious Horizon and Epic Effect: Considerations on the Iliad, the Chanson de Roland, and the NibelungenliedChapter 6. The Possibility of Historical Time in the Crónica SarracinaChapter 7. Good Friday Magic: Petrarch's Canzoniere and the Transformation of Medieval Vernacular PoetryChapter 8. The Identity of a TextChapter 9. Conceiving the Text in the Middle AgesChapter 10. Dante's Transfigured Ovidian Models: Icarus and Daedalus in the CommediaChapter 11. Ekphrasis in the Knight's TaleChapter 12. Montaigne's Medieval Nominalism and Meschonnic's Ethics of the SubjectChapter 13. The Pèlerinage Corpus in the European Middle Ages: Processes of Retextualization Reflected in the ProloguesChapter 14. Narrative Frames of Augustinian Thought in the Renaissance: The Case of RabelaisChapter 15. From Romanesque Architecture to RomanceList of Contributors Index
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