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Die Publikation analysiert die Konstruktivität von verführerischer Weiblichkeit in Texten aus der Romantik, dem Fin de Siècle sowie der Literatur und dem Kino des 20. Jahrhunderts als Projektion eines Betrachters, der, ähnlich der ovidischen Sagengestalt Narziss, die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-12-27
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Education in Late Antiquity offers the first comprehensive account of the Graeco-Roman debate on education between c. 300 and 550 CE. Jan Stenger traces changing attitudes towards the aims and methods of teaching, learning, and formation through the explicit and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-12-23
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We are living in a moment of environmental and existential crisis that demands a response. Why then study Classics now? From the European assimilation and destruction of the New World to our present environmental destruction of our shared world, Humans, among Other...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-12-16
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We are living in a moment of environmental and existential crisis that demands a response. Why then study Classics now? From the European assimilation and destruction of the New World to our present environmental destruction of our shared world, Humans, among Other...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-12-16
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Der Mythos von Orpheus und Eurydike ist allgegenwärtig. Die vorliegende Publikation verfolgt seine Spuren in der Gegenwart. In Texten und Medien aller Arten treten der mythische Sänger und seine todgeweihte Frau auf. Stets aufs Neue stellen diese Werke die Frage nach...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-10-25
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Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts takes as its starting point an understanding that a medieval book is a whole object at every point of its long history. As such, medieval books can be studied most profitably in a holistic manner as objects-in-the-world. This means...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-10-21
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Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts takes as its starting point an understanding that a medieval book is a whole object at every point of its long history. As such, medieval books can be studied most profitably in a holistic manner as objects-in-the-world. This means...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-10-21
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This book elucidates the poetics of Philodemus of Gadara, a first century BCE Epicurean philosopher and poet, whose On Poems survives in extensive fragments among the Herculaneum papyri. Although his treatise was primarily polemical and lacks positive exposition, his...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-10-18
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Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Stories for an Uncertain World understands the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales to communicate a radical uncertainty haunting most human endeavors, one that challenges effective knowledge of the future, the past, or the distant present;...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-10-14
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Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Stories for an Uncertain World understands the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales to communicate a radical uncertainty haunting most human endeavors, one that challenges effective knowledge of the future, the past, or the distant present;...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-10-14
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The birth of the Greek alphabet marked a new horizon in the history of writing, as the vowelless Phoenician alphabet was borrowed and adapted to write vowels as well as consonants. Rather than creating a single unchanging new tradition, however, its earliest...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-08-26
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The birth of the Greek alphabet marked a new horizon in the history of writing, as the vowelless Phoenician alphabet was borrowed and adapted to write vowels as well as consonants. Rather than creating a single unchanging new tradition, however, its earliest...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-08-26
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The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature and actively seeks to promote research that not only focuses on the array of subjects medievalists now pursue in...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-08-19
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The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature and actively seeks to promote research that not only focuses on the array of subjects medievalists now pursue in...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-08-19
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Discover a holistic perspective on Ovid's Metamorphoses Book 10 with this insightful resource. In A Student's Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses Book 10, Shawn O'Bryhim offers an insightful and concise examination of the literary, grammatical, and textual matters...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2021-07-12
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Provides the necessary context to read elegiac and lyric poetry, designed for novice and experienced Classics and Latin students alike A Guide to Latin Elegy and Lyric explores the language of Latin poetry while helping readers understand the socio-cultural context of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2021-06-29
Collection :
Blackwell Guides to Classical Literature
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Disorienting Empire is the first book to examine Republican Latin poetry's recurring interest in characters who become lost. Basil Dufallo explains the prevalence of this theme with reference to the rapid expansion of Rome's empire in the Middle and Late Republic. It...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-06-25
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Obscene poetry, servants' slanders against their masters, the diabolical acts of those who committed massacre and regicide. This is a book about the harmful, outward manifestation of inner malice--villainy--in French culture (1463-1610). In pre-modern France, villainous...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-04-15
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Obscene poetry, servants' slanders against their masters, the diabolical acts of those who committed massacre and regicide. This is a book about the harmful, outward manifestation of inner malice--villainy--in French culture (1463-1610). In pre-modern France, villainous...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-04-15
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'Though home is a name, a word, it is a strong one', said Charles Dickens, 'stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit answered to, in strongest conjuration.' The ancient Greek word nostos, meaning homecoming or return, has a commensurate power and mystique. Irish...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-04-01
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