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"Vivam" is the very last word of Ovid's masterpiece, the Metamorphoses: "I shall live." If we're still reading it two millennia after Ovid's death, this is by definition a remarkably accurate prophecy. Ovid was not the only ancient author with aspirations to be read for...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-09-24
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"Vivam" is the very last word of Ovid's masterpiece, the Metamorphoses: "I shall live." If we're still reading it two millennia after Ovid's death, this is by definition a remarkably accurate prophecy. Ovid was not the only ancient author with aspirations to be read for...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-09-24
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LONGLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2021'One of the year's funniest books' i Paper'Funny, smart, soulful and sometimes devastating ... It made me laugh and cry' EMILIE PINE, author of Notes to Self_______________Patrick Freyne has tried a lot of stupid ideas in his...
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Penguin
Parution :
2020-09-17
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With contributions by: William Boyd, Candice Carty-Williams, Imtiaz Dharker, Roddy Doyle, Pico Iyer, Robert Macfarlane, Andy Miller, Jackie Morris, Jan Morris, Sisonke Msimang, Dina Nayeri, Chigozie Obioma, Michael Ondaatje, David Pilling, Max Porter, Philip Pullman,...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2020-09-17
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Probably the greatest British novelist of his generation, Graham Greene's own story was as strange and compelling as those he told of Pinkie the Mobster, Harry Lime, or the Whisky Priest. A restless traveller, he was a witness to many of the key events of modern history...
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Little, Brown Book Group
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2020-09-03
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**Winner of the WARWICK PRIZE FOR WOMEN IN TRANSLATION and the HELEN AND KURT WOLFF TRANSLATION PRIZE****Winner of the Society of Authors' FIRST TRANSLATION AWARD****Longlisted for the INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE**"A fine example of everyone's favourite genre: the...
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Maclehose Press
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2020-08-20
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This book provides a comprehensive reading of some of A.S. Byatt’s major novels. Focusing on memory, Renaissance forms of theatrical reinvention in post-war culture, ekphrasis, visuality, the cognitive processes of the mind, gender and science, the book retraces a...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-08-07
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The book reunites transdisciplinary studies investigating the questions of construction and deconstruction of gender in filmic, literary, and television Romance cultures by referring to a corpus that stretches from plays of travesty in 18th century opera to...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2020-08-06
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In 1719, the former secretary of State and famous English writer Joseph Addison passed away and was burried in Westminster Abbey among the great national poets. A few decades later, the great lexicographer Samuel Johnson defined Joseph Addison’s prose style as the...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2020-07-24
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Ovid's remarkable and endlessly fascinating Metamorphoses is one of the best-known and most popular works of classical literature, exerting a pervasive influence on later European literature and culture. A vast repository of mythic material as well as a sophisticated...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-06-26
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Ovid's remarkable and endlessly fascinating Metamorphoses is one of the best-known and most popular works of classical literature, exerting a pervasive influence on later European literature and culture. A vast repository of mythic material as well as a sophisticated...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-06-26
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The Catilinarians are a set of four speeches that Cicero, while consul in 63 BC, delivered before the senate and the Roman people against the conspirator Catiline and his followers. Or are they? Cicero did not publish the speeches until three years later, and he...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-06-11
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From the beginning, kings ruled Rome; Lucius Brutus established freedom and the consulship. So wrote the Roman historian Tacitus in the second century AD, but the view was orthodox. It is still widely accepted today.
But how could the Romans of later times have possibly...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-06-04
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Oxford Approaches to Classical Literature introduces individual works of Greek and Latin literature to readers who are approaching them for the first time. Each volume sets the work in its literary and historical context and aims to offer a balanced and engaging...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-05-15
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Oedipus the King is the best-known play we have from the pen of Sophocles and was recognized as a masterpiece in Aristotle's Poetics, which cites the play more often than any other as an example of how to write tragedy.
The principal character is the king of a city...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-05-07
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Classical literature is full of humans, gods, and animals in impressive motion. The specific features of this motion are expressive; it is closely intertwined with decisions, emotions, and character. However, although the importance of space has recently been realized...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-04-30
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Classical literature is full of humans, gods, and animals in impressive motion. The specific features of this motion are expressive; it is closely intertwined with decisions, emotions, and character. However, although the importance of space has recently been realized...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-04-30
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In this thrilling anthology, bestselling mystery writers abandon the cloak of fiction to investigate the suspenseful secrets in their own lives.For many of us, a good, heart-pounding mystery is the perfect escape from real-world confusion and chaos. But what about the...
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Seal Press
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2020-04-21
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Il volume raccoglie i contributi dell’omonima sezione del 35. Romanistentag. Attraverso una serie di casi esemplari, affiancati da indagini di carattere tipologico, intende contribuire a circoscrivere quella modalità, così diffusa nel Settecento italiano, di migrazioni...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-04-20
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International in scope and based on primary research, this book gathers twelve new essays by critics including both well-established and newer voices. It aims to stimulate further enquiry, research and critical reflection, in sceptical, analytic or celebratory modes, on...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-04-09
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