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'I love thee... once more helpless, and therewith hopeless!--but this time no longer silent, before the Friendship which is Love, the Love which is Friendship.'
Considered one of the first examples of the 'homosexual' novel, Edward Prime-Stevenson's Imre: A Memorandum...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-04-14
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'The poem I had planned to write on the banks of the Ganga was never written. But it materialized in my life.'
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), Nobel Laureate and polymath, is one of the most eminent Indian writers of world literature. This volume presents new...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-04-14
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'Hans Castorp filled his lungs with the pure mountain air--this fresh, light atmosphere that was so easy to inhale and held no scent of moisture, no content, no memories...'
Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain (1924) is a social comedy with tragic overtones, providing a...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-02-25
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'Let us go on, then! And I will tell you the story of my sister and her daughter, from beginning to end.'
Alis al-Bustani's Sa'iba (1891) is one of the earliest known novels authored in Arabic by a female writer. Written when the Arabic novel was only in its third or...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-02-25
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'Let us go on, then! And I will tell you the story of my sister and her daughter, from beginning to end.'
Alis al-Bustani's Sa'iba (1891) is one of the earliest known novels authored in Arabic by a female writer. Written when the Arabic novel was only in its third or...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-02-20
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'Hans Castorp filled his lungs with the pure mountain air--this fresh, light atmosphere that was so easy to inhale and held no scent of moisture, no content, no memories...'
Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain (1924) is a social comedy with tragic overtones, providing a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-02-18
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This volume presents a newly edited text of Euripides' Electra with a scene-by-scene and line-by-line commentary that addresses a wide variety of questions, including the nature of Euripidean tragedy. In his Introduction and across several discussions in the commentary,...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-01-28
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C'è una notte fitta, "una densa notte di tenebre", che avvolge le origini dell'umanità. Per secoli, filosofi e storici hanno tentato di illuminarla con la luce della ragione astratta, fallendo. Poi, agli albori del Settecento, un uomo solo, Giambattista Vico, fece una...
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Cactus
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2026-03-13
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Scritti tra il 1945 e il 1947, i ventisette brevi dialoghi di questo libro non sono una semplice rivisitazione colta dei miti greci. Sulla scia degli studi antropologici e della psicanalisi, Pavese trasforma figure come Edipo, Achille, Orfeo e Prometeo in interlocutori...
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Cactus
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2026-03-02
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Musical as Classical Reception: Amplifying Antiquity investigates music as a site of classical reception from the early modern rise of opera to contemporary hip-hop. The volume's contributors explore topics across musical genres and classical sources--myth, epic, lyric,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-12-03
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Musical as Classical Reception: Amplifying Antiquity investigates music as a site of classical reception from the early modern rise of opera to contemporary hip-hop. The volume's contributors explore topics across musical genres and classical sources--myth, epic, lyric,...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-11-20
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The main challenge in writing the history of Roman women is their silence, for they either did not themselves write, or what writing they did was not kept and transmitted. There are, however, a few welcome exceptions, such as the work of the Roman elegiac poet Sulpicia....
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OUP Oxford
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2025-11-19
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A comprehensive collection of translated sources on the wars and world of Alexander's successors Successors to Alexander the Great brings together—for the first time in a single collection—the essential translated sources for the tumultuous period following the death of...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2025-11-14
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Blackwell Sourcebooks in Ancient History
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The main challenge in writing the history of Roman women is their silence, for they either did not themselves write, or what writing they did was not kept and transmitted. There are, however, a few welcome exceptions, such as the work of the Roman elegiac poet Sulpicia....
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OUP Oxford
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2025-11-07
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Xenophon was acknowledged in Antiquity as a philosopher, a historian (third in the triad of great Classical historians, alongside Herodotus and Thucydides), and a literary artist. His narrative was appreciated for its literary qualities including its charm, wit, vigour,...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-09-26
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Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of festival drama which flourished in Athens during the fifth century BC. One of the most original playwrights in the entire Western tradition, his comedies are remarkable for their...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-09-26
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Immersion used to be disregarded by academic scholarship as a secondary aspect of ancient narrative. It was mostly considered typical of a passive reading style unworthy of intellectual consideration. However, the study of the immersive strategies adopted by ancient...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-09-26
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Immersion used to be disregarded by academic scholarship as a secondary aspect of ancient narrative. It was mostly considered typical of a passive reading style unworthy of intellectual consideration. However, the study of the immersive strategies adopted by ancient...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-09-15
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George C. Manning examines the presentation of anger in the Íslendingasögur ('Sagas of Icelanders') and associated Íslendingaþættir ('Tales of Icelanders'), a remarkable Old Norse-Icelandic corpus of texts written down in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries that...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-07-16
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The 24 essays collected in this book address the complex interactions between concepts of time, grammatical tense, and type of genre of prose or poetry in ancient Greek literature.The chronological scope stretches across nearly a millennium from archaic epic to the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-07-14
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