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Leah O'Hearn
Akrasia and the Catullan Lover

Exploring how the Roman poet Catullus portrays erotic desire as a problem of self-control, Leah O'Hearn argues that Catullus presents himself as a lover plagued by akrasia (the failure to act on better ju…

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The Cambridge History of Later Latin Literature

Histories of Latin literature have often treated the period from the second to the seventh centuries as an epilogue to the main action - and yet the period includes such towering figures as Apuleius, Clau…

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The Cambridge History of Later Latin Literature

Histories of Latin literature have often treated the period from the second to the seventh centuries as an epilogue to the main action - and yet the period includes such towering figures as Apuleius, Clau…

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Barbara Seaman
Lovely Me

The definitive biography of Jacqueline Susann, author of the top 20 all-time bestselling novel in the 20th century, now a cult classic, Valley of the Dolls . With a new introduction by Maris Kriezman for …

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Shakespeare and Italy

Examining the relationship between Shakespeare and Italy, this collection considers how Shakespeare was inspired by Italian history, culture and literature, as well as the ways that Italy has, in turn, be…

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Silvia Montiglio
Schadenfreude and Its Wicked Delights in Ancient Greece

This volume explores the significance of schadenfreude in Greek literature and culture from the archaic period to the second century CE. It examines how schadenfreude works, what purposes it serves within…

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Eric Csapo, Peter Wilson
A Social and Economic History of the Theatre to 300 Bc: Volume 1, the Theatre Festivals of Athens: Documents with Translation and Commentary

This is the first volume of A Social and Economic History of the Theatre to 300 BC and focuses exclusively on the theatre festivals in the city of Athens. It presents and discusses in detail all the docum…

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Virginia Woolf,
A Room of One's Own

Penguin Publishing Group

Virginia Woolf's pioneering work of feminism, "probably the most influential piece of non-fictional writing by a woman in [the twentieth] century" (Hermione Lee), featuring a new introduction by…

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Rachana Kamtekar
Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. OSAP is …

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Trevor Boffone, Danielle Rosvally
Yassified Shakespeare

This book explores the under-theorized intersections between Shakespeare and drag in contemporary American culture and performances of and around what it terms "ShaxDrag."From the root word &quo…

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Anna Chiara Corradino,
Representations of Endymion and Selene

A focused study of an ancient myth and its reception, which provokes new consideration of how myth in general can challenge social norms. Analyzing the visual and literary transformations of the myth of E…

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Achille Castaldo
Ascetic Images

Examines the narrative articulation of social invisibility in works by two of the most influential Italian cultural producers of the twentieth century.The product of centuries of systemic violence and act…

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Máiréad Casey
Demon Possession and Sexual Violence in Post-Great Recession American Horror Cinema

University of Wales Press

Examines how cultural and economic anxieties in 2008 influenced the popularity of demon possession and gendered violence in American horror.This book examines American horror films as key sites for explor…

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Rachana Kamtekar
Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. OSAP is …

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Jan Carson
Few and Far Between

From a "deeply talented" (The New York Times Book Review), award-winning writer comes an alternate history of Northern Ireland's recent past where the last remaining residents of a haunted archi…

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Amaranth Feuth
Metaliterary Katabasis in the Writings of Eavan Boland, Derek Walcott and Gloria Naylor

Focusing on the ancient motif of the descent into the underworld (katabasis), this book examines how three 20th-century writers - Eavan Boland, Gloria Naylor and Derek Walcott - articulate their poetics a…

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Cicero,
Pro Quinctio. Pro Roscio Amerino. Pro Roscio Comoedo. Pro Tullio. de Lege Agraria

"Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician, and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise, dictatorship, a…

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James Merrill, Hilton Als
A Different Person

The son of extreme privilege who became a great American poet---winner of every major poetry prize, from the Pulitzer to the Bollingen---looks back on his coming of age as a gay man before Stonewall in a …

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Lloyd Whitesell
Queer and Trans Aesthetics

If a creative individual identifies as queer or trans, does that fact belong solely to the realm of biography, or does it pertain to their artistic achievement? In Queer and Trans Aesthetics, Lloyd Whites…

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Baltic Horror in film, gaming and literature

University of Wales Press

Argues that horror cinema originates from the overlooked Baltic region.Arguably, the Baltic region saw the birth of horror cinema when Germany produced its cycle of silent horror films. However, this geog…

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