Estudios literarios: clásicos, primitivos y medievales

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  • The Invisible Man
    Herbert George Wells
    On a bitter evening in the depths of winter, a mysterious stranger arrives to the remote English village of Iping, his face swaddled in bandages.The Invisible Man tells the tale of Griffin, a scientist who has found a way to make himself invisible. To his anger and dismay, however, the experiment appears irreversible. Freed from the constraints of the law and rejected by a soci...
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    14,21 €

  • The illusion of the Burgundian state
    Élodie Lecuppre-Desjardin / Christopher Fletcher
    On 25 January 1474, Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy, appeared before his subjects in Dijon. Robed in silk, gold and precious jewels and wearing a headpiece that gave the illusion of a crown, he made a speech in which he cryptically expressed his desire to become a king. Three years later, Charles was killed at the battle of Nancy, an event that plunged the Great Principality...
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    43,76 €

  • La Cassette
    Plaute
    Le titre de cette comédie provient d’une cassette ou corbeille (cistella) contenant des objets grâce auxquels Silénie, élevée par la courtisane Melénide, et qui enfant avait été exposée, sera finalement reconnue. Le jeune Alcésimarque s’éprend d’elle, et après avoir franchi tout une série d’obstacles, il pourra enfin l’épouser, lorsque l’on découvrira que Sélénie est la fille d...
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    9,78 €

  • Casina
    Plaute
    Cette pièce raconte le combat entre un vieillard lubrique, amoureux d’une petite esclave, et sa mégère de femme qui fait tout pour l’empêcher d’arriver à ses fins. Des ruses sans cesse contrées, des raclées par esclaves interposés, des vieux qui jouent aux jeunes premiers et des matrones qui s’encanaillent pour la belle esclave Casina, dont tous parlent et qu’on ne voit jamais....
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    9,65 €

  • Dante, un camino de setecientos años
    Cecilia Avenatti de Palumbo / Cecilia Avenatti de Palumbo / Daniel Del Percio / Nora Sforza
    No bastaría una biblioteca para contener las ideas que surgen de la lectura de la obra de Dante. Pero quizás sí una palabra quela propia Divina Comedia nos ofrece: trasumanar, transhumanar, superar los límites de lo humano en un sentido muy lejano al mundocotidiano, y sin embargo, convergente con él. El viaje, su viaje, eshacia Dios, pero también hacia un hombre futuro. El homb...
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    17,16 €

  • Vijftig hoogtepunten uit de Russische literatuur
    Tengbergen Maarten
    Vijftig hoogtepunten uit de Russische literatuur is een standaardwerk met gedetailleerde samenvattingen en diepgaande analyses van de meest bekende werken uit de Russische literatuur (romans, novellen, dichtwerken, toneelstukken).In tegenstelling tot de meeste andere literatuurboeken is Vijftig hoogtepunten niet opgebouwd rond de auteurs maar rond hun werken. De twee delen besl...
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    23,58 €

  • Vijftig hoogtepunten uit de Russische literatuur
    Tengbergen Maarten
    Vijftig hoogtepunten uit de Russische literatuur is een standaardwerk met gedetailleerde samenvattingen en diepgaande analyses van de meest bekende werken uit de Russische literatuur (romans, novellen, dichtwerken, toneelstukken).In tegenstelling tot de meeste andere literatuurboeken is Vijftig hoogtepunten niet opgebouwd rond de auteurs maar rond hun werken. De twee delen besl...
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    23,66 €

  • Inscription of Tiglath-Pileser I, King of Assyria
    A.H. Sayce
    The beginning of Tiglath-Pileser’s I reign, laid heavy involvement in military campaigns, as suggested from translated texts from the Middle Assyrian period. The texts were believed to be 'justification of war.' Although little literary text is available from the time of Tiglath-Pieser I, there is evidence to show that the reign of Tiglath-Pileser I inspired the act of recordin...
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    4,86 €

  • Love Through the Ages
    Rajesh Giri
    Love Through the Ages: The Impact of Famous Love Stories on Modern Relationships is an enchanting exploration of the profound influence that iconic love stories have had on our understanding and experiences of love in the present day. From timeless classics to contemporary tales, this book takes you on a captivating journey through the ages, uncovering the universal truths and ...
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    11,03 €

  • The Poetic Edda Six Cosmology Poems
    Maria Kvilhaug
    The Edda poems were written down in the Old Norse language by Icelandic scholars during the 11th to 13th centuries AD. They contain a poetical, metaphorical lore about Cosmos and the fate of mortals on the path to immortality. A lore that is, despite having been transmitted in writing by medieval monks and scholars, deeply steeped in ancient Pre-Christian beliefs. ...
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    15,52 €

  • Sabuja Kabita
    Sushri Sandhya Mohanty
    ସବୁଜ କବିତାର ଦିଗ୍‌ବଳୟ ଖୁବ୍ ପ୍ରସାରିତ ନୁହେଁ । ପୁଣି ଏ ଗୋଷ୍ଠୀର କବିଙ୍କ ସଂଖ୍ୟା ଖୁବ୍ ସୀମିତ । ପାଞ୍ଚଜଣ ବନ୍ଧୁ ଏକାଠି ହୋଇ କିଛି ଲେଖାଲେଖି ପାଇଁ ପ୍ରୟାସ କରିଥିଲେହେଁ ସେମାନଙ୍କ ମଧ୍ୟରୁ ଦୁଇଜଣ ସାହିତ୍ୟରାଜ୍ୟରେ ଆଦୌ ପାଙ୍‌କ୍ତେୟ ହୋଇନାହାନ୍ତି । କିନ୍ତୁ ସାହିତ୍ୟ-ସଂଗଠନ, ପତ୍ରିକା ପ୍ରକାଶନ ଦିଗରେ ସେ ଦୁହିଁଙ୍କ ଅବଦାନ ନିଶ୍ଚୟ ସ୍ୱୀକୃତ ହେବ । ଅନ୍ୟ ତିନିଜଣ କବିଙ୍କ ମଧ୍ୟରୁ ଅନ୍ନଦାଶଙ୍କର ମାତ୍ର ଚାରିବର୍ଷ ପାଇଁ ଓଡ଼ିଆ କବିତା ଲେଖିବାରେ ମନ ବଳେଇ...
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  • Encountering The Book of Margery Kempe
    This innovative critical volume brings the study of Margery Kempe into the twenty-first century. Structured around four categories of ’encounter’ - textual, internal, external and performative - the volume offers a capacious exploration of The Book of Margery Kempe, characterised by multiple complementary and dissonant approaches. It employs a multiplicity of scholarly and crit...
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    43,93 €

  • Greek Memories
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    50,82 €

  • Gods and Mortals in Early Greek and Near Eastern Mythology
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    48,80 €

  • Sleep and its spaces in Middle English literature
    Megan G. Leitch / Megan Leitch
    Middle English literature is intimately concerned with sleep and the spaces in which it takes place. In the medieval English imagination, sleep is an embodied and culturally determined act. It is both performed and interpreted by characters and contemporaries, subject to a particular habitus and understood through particular hermeneutic lenses. While illuminating the intersecti...
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    44,11 €

  • Aspects of the Novel
    E.M. Forster
    Widely accepted as a pioneering work of literary criticism, Forster’s Aspects of the Novel provides the critical readers with fundamental conceptual tools to approach the study of novels. His lectures, compiled in this book, are invaluable for students and researchers who intend to pursue their critical studies on the genre of fiction, cutting across languages, cultures and lit...
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    16,39 €

  • The Poetic Edda
    Edward Pettit
    This book is an edition and translation of one of the most important and celebrated sources of Old Norse-Icelandic mythology and heroic legend, namely the medieval poems now known collectively as the Poetic Edda or Elder Edda. Included are thirty-six texts, which are mostly preserved in medieval manuscripts, especially the thirteenth-century Icelandic codex traditionally known ...
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    100,57 €

  • The gift of narrative in medieval England
    Nicholas Perkins
    This invigorating study places medieval romance narrative in dialogue with theories and practices of gift and exchange, opening new approaches to questions of storytelling, agency, gender and materiality in some of the most engaging literature from the Middle Ages. It argues that the dynamics of the gift are powerfully at work in romances: through exchanges of objects and peopl...
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    44,16 €

  • Objects of affection
    Myra Seaman
    Objects of affection recovers the emotional attraction of the medieval book through an engagement with a fifteenth-century literary collection known as Oxford, Bodleian Library Manuscript Ashmole 61. Exploring how the inhabitants of the book’s pages - human and nonhuman, tangible and intangible - collaborate with its readers then and now, this book addresses the manuscript’s ma...
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    44,09 €

  • The Philomena of Chrétien the Jew
    Peter Haidu
    Ovid’s gruesome tale of rape, mutilation, and revenge, transformed into Philomena and retold in French octosyllables, found its way into the fourteenth century Ovide moralisé with a signature at its mid-point: Crestiens li gois, the great twelfth century romancer’s early avatar. Writing two generations after the Jewish massacres of the First Crusade, Christian the Goy playfully...
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    17,69 €

  • Saracens and their World in Boiardo and Ariosto
    Maria Pavlova
    A ubiquitous presence in European chivalric literature, the multifaceted figure of the Saracen Other plays a vital role in shaping the knightly values and ideologies underpinning some of the most influential narrative poems of the Italian Renaissance. By combining historical research and close reading and bringing to bear a wealth of literary and documentary sources, some of wh...
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    23,23 €

  • A Grammar of the Homeric Dialect, Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged
    D. B. Monro
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    42,12 €

  • Violent Victorian Medievalism
    Mary Boyle
    medievalism, n. ’the reception, interpretation or recreation of the European Middle Ages in post-medieval cultures’ Louise D’Arcens, 2016 A fascination with the Middle Ages shaped public life in the nineteenth century - and in exchange, it reshaped the Middle Ages into a form still dominant today. Englishness became inextricably connected with a reimagined medieval past express...
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    9,52 €

  • Menander
    Alan H. Sommerstein
    This book introduces readers who may have no previous knowledge of Menander’s comedies to Epitrepontes (The Arbitration), arguably the most exquisitely crafted of his better-preserved plays. It explains what we know about the play, how we know it, and how far we can tentatively fill in the gaps in our knowledge. Sommerstein analyses the nature of the dramatic genre (Athenian N...
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    42,39 €

  • The ’Christian’ Mission of Jesus
    Don Wesley Davis
    The Gospel of Mark begins with the writer telling readers that Jesus came proclaiming the Kingdom of God at the launch of his ministry in Galilee. Mark gives his readers the exact wording of Jesus’ mission statement in Mark 1:15, which are words that Jesus would have spoken almost four decades prior to Mark’s time of writing. The statement is both apocalyptic and anachronistic,...
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    24,33 €

  • Seven Against Thebes
    Aleksander Krawczuk / Tom Pinch
    Seven Against Thebes was one of the most important myths of antiquity: in The Iliad, Agamemnon and Diomedes kept referring to its heroes as their personal ideals. For the next two thousand years, it was the subject of countless poetic and dramatic works. One of Europe’s best-selling authors of books on antiquity discusses the myth, its roots in the Bronze Age, its historical tr...
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    19,98 €

  • Cultural Inquiries in English Literature, 1400–1700
    Scott Oldenburg
    A narrative of Elizabethan London through the eyes of William Muggins, an impoverished silk-weaver who wrote poetry about the plague, motherhood, childrearing, poverty, and the responsibility individuals have to one another. ...
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    42,63 €

  • Looking at Agamemnon
    David Stuttard
    Agamemnon is the first of the three plays within the Oresteia trilogy and is considered to be one of Aeschylus’ greatest works. This collection of 12 essays, written by prominent international academics, brings together a wide range of topics surrounding Agamemnon from its relationship with ancient myth and ritual to its modern reception. There is a diverse array of discussion ...
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    52,44 €

  • Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio
    Zygmunt G. Barański
    Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, the three crowns of Italian literature, dealt with literature, doctrine, and reality in distinct, yet also overlapping, ways. In this major collection of nineteen essays, Barański explores how they endeavoured to create and establish their authority and identity as writers, while developing new ideas about literature and its status in the world, ...
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    33,82 €

  • God’s Exiles and English Verse
    John D. Niles
    This is the first integrative, historically grounded book to be written about the Exeter Book of Old English poetry. By approaching the Exeter codex as a whole, the book seeks to establish a sound footing for the understanding of any and all of its parts, seen as devout yet cosmopolitan expressions of late Anglo-Saxon literary culture. 2 illus. ...
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    40,60 €


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