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Judah D Galinsky
The Making of a Medieval Bestseller

This study is a history of a medieval bestseller--Rabbi Isaac of Corbeil's handbook of accessible religious law relevant to Jews living in the Diaspora in medieval times. Galinsky describes how it came in…

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Krista A Milne
The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England

It is generally accepted that the contingencies of manuscript survival have disproportionately destroyed some sorts of manuscripts and not others, but there is no consensus as to which sorts. Considerable…

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Giulio Celotto, Laurel Fulkerson
Sulpicia

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 welcom…

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Christian Lehmann
Dickens and the Classics

This book examines Charles Dickens's underappreciated engagement with Classical knowledge and its role in his cultural commentary. By treating his novels as collaborations with illustrators, particularly …

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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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Rebecca Davis
Graceful Narratives

Graceful Narratives argues that the concept of grace functions as a form of literary theory in late-medieval English texts, generating dilated, deliberative narratives that resist linear plotting and crea…

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Emily Pillinger, Miranda Stanyon
Music as Classical Reception

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 topi…

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Sublime Cosmos in Graeco-Roman Literature and its Reception

The essays collected in this volume examine manifestations of our sublime cosmos in ancient literature and its reception. Individual themes include religious mystery; calendrical and cyclical thinking as …

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Erica Weaver
The Hermeneutics of Distraction in Early Medieval England

This book writes the cultural and intellectual history of distraction through the study of the affective practices of a particular community of medieval writers and readers: the influential circle of Ã†th…

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Natalia I Petrovskaia
The Modern Afterlives of Old Irish Travel Narratives

This book explores the reception of the medieval Irish tradition of fantastic journey tales in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels , C.S. Lewis's The Voyage of the Dawn Treader , Umberto Eco's Baudolino ,…

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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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The Philology of the Future

This book gathers a group of scholars whose work has been influenced by the distinctive dialogue between ancient philosophy (and rhetoric) and critical theory promoted by the scholarship of James I. Porte…

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Joel P Christensen
The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Odyssey

The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Odyssey brings together internationally recognized experts to provide commentary style essays for non-specialists on each book of the Homeric epic. The introduction pr…

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Wolfgang David Cirilo De Melo, Scott Scullion
The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Latin Textual Criticism

Readers and scholars of contemporary literature in English and other languages generally do not have to worry very much about their source texts: what is published in book form is essentially what the aut…

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Joel P Christensen
The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Odyssey

The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Odyssey brings together internationally recognized experts to provide commentary style essays for non-specialists on each book of the Homeric epic. The introduction pr…

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The Oxford Chaucer

This authoritative edition of the complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer presents Chaucer's works for a new generation of students, and for a wide range of general readers. It provides all that undergraduates…

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Verführung (1995)

Als junges Mädchen folgte Anne Elliot dem Rat ihrer mütterlichen Freundin Lady Russel. Sie ließ die Vernunft über ihr Herz siegen und löste die Verlobung mit dem aufstrebenden Captain Wentworth, obwohl si…

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Jane Eyre (2006)

Was kann ein ungeliebtes Waisenkind schon vom Leben erwarten? Ein großes Abenteuer, das sie mit viel Mut und Willenskraft bestehen kann. Die bewegende Geschichte der Jane Eyre, eindrucksvoll beschrieben …

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Sarah Bowden
Writing Sin in the German Lands, 1050-1215

This book is about the relationship between dealing with sin and writing poetry in the Middle Ages; focusing particularly on twelfth-century Germany, it discusses how people performed penance and thought …

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Jonathan S Burgess
The Travels of Odysseus

The Travels of Odysseus employs the theme of travel to explore the Odyssey and its contexts. After an introductory chapter, Chapter 2 provides analysis of the "wanderings" or Apologos of Odysseu…

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