著者:Egbert J. Bakker
出版社: Cornell University Press
発売日: 2018年03月15日
Applying linguistic theory to the study of Homeric style, Egbert J. Bakker offers a highly innovative approach to oral poetry, particularly the poetry of Homer. By situating formulas and other featu……続きを見る
著者:Cynthia J. Brown
出版社: Cornell University Press
発売日: 2019年03月15日
Cynthia J. Brown explains why the advent of print in the late medieval period brought about changes in relationships among poets, patrons, and printers which led to a new conception of authorship.
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著者:Aaron Pelttari
出版社: University of Oklahoma Press
発売日: 2019年08月22日
Prudentius (b. 348 c.e.), one of the greatest Latin poets of late antiquity, was also a devoted Christian. His allegorical masterpiece, Psychomachia, combines epic language and theological speculati……続きを見る
著者:Helene P. Foley
出版社: Cornell University Press
発売日: 2019年03月15日
Ritual Irony is a critical study of four problematic later plays of Euripides: the Iphigenia in Aulis, the Phoenissae, the Heracles, and the Bacchae.
Examining Euripides' representation of sacrifici……続きを見る
著者:Peter W. Rose
出版社: Cornell University Press
発売日: 2019年03月15日
In this ambitious and venturesome book, Peter W. Rose applies the insights of Marxist theory to a number of central Greek literary and philosophical texts. He explores major points in the trajectory……続きを見る
In this sensitive reading of Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, Winthrop Wetherbee redefines the nature of Chaucer’s poetic vision. Using as a starting point Chaucer’s profound admiration for the achie……続きを見る
This book is intended to serve as an elementary edition for all studies of Egyptian Literature. Its object is to present a short series of specimens of Egyptian compositions, which represent all the……続きを見る
Dieses eBook ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel (1772-1829) war ein deutscher Kulturph……続きを見る
Aegis of Athena is a brief excavation of the Indo-European and Euro-American Spirit, globalization, mercantilism, nationalism and ancient mythoi using the Shield of Perseus. It reconciles myth and h……続きを見る
Get smarter on the sun! Whether that be on the beach or in the deck chair on your terrace or backyard. The Harvard Classics in 51 volumes include the essential works of world literature, showing the……続きを見る
Scholars have recently begun to study collections of Byzantine historical excerpts as autonomous pieces of literature. This book focuses on a series of minor collections that have received little or……続きを見る
This ebook contains Aristotle's complete works. This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the eboo……続きを見る
著者:Andrew Ford
出版社: Cornell University Press
発売日: 2019年03月15日
Andrew Ford here addresses, in a manner both engaging and richly informed, the perennial questions of what poetry is, how it came to be, and what it is for. Focusing on the critical moment in Wester……続きを見る
Contains Active Table of Contents (HTML) and in the end of book include a bonus link to the free audiobook. Meditations is a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor from 161 to……続きを見る
著者:Ann W. Astell
出版社: Cornell University Press
発売日: 2019年03月15日
Calling into question the common assumption that the Middle Ages produced no secondary epics, Ann W. Astell here revises a key chapter in literary history. She examines the connections between the B……続きを見る
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Collected Works of Theodore Dreiser" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Table of Contents: Novels: Sister Carrie Jenni……続きを見る
This book contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!
Novels
Jerome, Jerome K.: "Three Men in a Boat"
Joyce, James: "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"……続きを見る
The writing of letters often evokes associations of a single author and a single addressee, who share in the exchange of intimate thoughts across distances of space and time. This model underwrites ……続きを見る
While Homer's existence as a historical person is still a topic of debate, the writings attributed to the name have made their mark not only on Greek history and literature, but upon western civiliz……続きを見る
著者:Carol J. Clover
出版社: Cornell University Press
発売日: 2019年03月15日
Written in the thirteenth century, the Icelandic prose sagas, chronicling the lives of kings and commoners, give a dramatic account of the first century after the settlement of Icelandーthe period f……続きを見る
Athens: Its Rise and Fall in 2 volumes is a history of ancient Athens written by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Author's object was to combine an account of Athens' administration and politics with a complex……続きを見る
"Not of woman born, the Fortunate, the Unborn"ーthe terms designating those born by Caesarean section in medieval and Renaissance Europe were mysterious and ambiguous. Examining representations of C……続きを見る
In 'Reden gegen Verres' präsentiert Marcus Tullius Cicero eine Sammlung von fünf Reden, die er vor Gericht hielt, um den korrupten römischen Beamten Verres anzuklagen. Cicero's literarischer Stil is……続きを見る
In this Very Short Introduction, Peter Hainsworth and David Robey take a different approach to Dante, by examining the main themes and issues that run through all of his work, ranging from autobiogr……続きを見る
Ancient and medieval labyrinths embody paradox, according to Penelope Reed Doob. Their structure allows a double perspectiveーthe baffling, fragmented prospect confronting the maze-treader within, a……続きを見る
著者:Jesse Gellrich
出版社: Cornell University Press
発売日: 2019年03月15日
This book assess the relationship of literature to various other cultural forms in the Middle Ages. Jesse M. Gellrich uses the insights of such thinkers as Levi-Strauss, Foucault, Barthes, and Derri……続きを見る
著者:Paula Hershkowitz
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2016年12月31日
This book provides an innovative approach to the Hispano-Roman Christian poet Prudentius and his poetry. It is a breakthrough in Prudentian scholarship which unifies the differing disciplines of his……続きを見る
Recent advances in research show that the distinctive features of high medieval civilization began developing centuries earlier than previously thought. The era once dismissed as a "Dark Age" now tu……続きを見る
Literary Territories introduces readers to a wide range of literature from 200-900 CE in which geography is a defining principle of literary art. From accounts of Holy Land pilgrimage, to Roman mapm……続きを見る