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Women's Writing in Middle English

An Annotated Anthology

by Alexandra Barratt
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013

Women's writing in any period remains of critical concern, both at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Alexandra Barratt's edition offers a wide range of texts from the period 1300-1500, including: Original texts written by women in the Middle Ages Texts translated by women in the Middle Ages Prayers,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2008

Julian of Norwich, the fourteenth/early fifteenth-century anchoress and mystic, is one of the most important and best-known figures of the Middle Ages. Her Revelations, intense visions of the divine, have been widely studied and read; the first known writings of an English woman, their influence extends...
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by Emily Baragwanath
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2008

In his extraordinary story of the defence of Greece against the Persian invasions of 490-480 BC, Herodotus sought to communicate not only what happened, but also the background of thoughts and perceptions that shaped those events and became critical to their interpretation afterwards. Much as the...
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by Evert van Emde Boas
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017

This study of Euripides' Electra approaches the text through the lens of modern linguistics, marrying it with traditional literary criticism in order to provide new and informative means of analysing and interpreting what is considered to be one of the playwright's most controversial works. It is...
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Playing the Farmer

Representations of Rural Life in Vergil’s Georgics

by Philip Thibodeau
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011

Playing the Farmer reinvigorates our understanding of Vergil’s Georgics, a vibrant work written by Rome’s premier epic poet shortly before he began the Aeneid. Setting the Georgics in the social context of its day, Philip Thibodeau for the first time connects the poem’s idyllic, and idealized,...
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Interpreting Plato Socratically

Socrates and Justice

by J. Angelo Corlett
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018

J. Angelo Corlett’s new book, Interpreting Plato Socratically continues the critical discussion of the Platonic Question where Corlett’s book, Interpreting Plato’s Dialogues concluded. New arguments in favor of the Mouthpiece Interpretation of Plato’s works are considered and shown to be fallacious,...
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Beauty, Ugliness and the Free Play of Imagination

An Approach to Kant's Aesthetics

by Mojca Küplen
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015

This book presents a solution to the problem known in philosophical aesthetics as the paradox of ugliness, namely, how an object that is displeasing can retain our attention and be greatly appreciated. It does this by exploring and refining the most sophisticated and thoroughly worked out theoretical...
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by Étienne Wolff
Language: French
Release Date: September 27, 2016

Martial est un auteur mal connu en France. La chape morale du XIXe siècle pèse encore sur lui. Il reste condamné pour son obscénité (réelle, mais qui ne devrait pas effaroucher nos contemporains, habitués à pire) et sa servilité (supposée, car c’est l’étiquette qui imposait de s’adresser...
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Guerre de Troie, guerres des cultures et guerres du Golfe

Les usages de l« Iliade » dans la culture écrite américaine contemporaine

by Gaël Grobéty, Danielle Van Mal-Maeder
Language: French
Release Date: March 5, 2014

A la fin de la Guerre froide, les Etats-Unis d’Amérique deviennent la première puissance mondiale, animée par l’idéal de défendre les valeurs occidentales et de répandre la démocratie dans le monde. Or, cette « mission » de l’Amérique suscite critiques et interrogations, car ni ses...
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by Collectif
Language: French
Release Date: November 13, 2014

Ces Éclats de littérature grecque explorent plusieurs facettes des différents genres littéraires de la Grèce ancienne, d’Homère et de ses commentateurs aux textes de la seconde sophistique, mais ce sont aussi les modernes qui, de La Fontaine à Pascal Quignard, font scintiller leur lecture...
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by Aurelius Victor, Nicolas-Auguste Dubois
Language: French
Release Date: April 26, 2016

Extrait :  Vers l’an sept cent vingt-deux de la fondation de la ville, on reprit, à Rome, l’usage d’obéir entièrement à  un seul chef. Octavien, fils d’Octavius, et adopté par César, son grand-oncle ; Octavien, qu’un sénatus-consulte surnomma...
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by Collectif
Language: French
Release Date: January 30, 2013

« Mythe » et « fiction » : deux catégories qui renvoient aux notions d’imagination, de fantaisie et de chimère ; à cette puissance ennemie de la raison raisonnante que Malebranche, dans une réflexion célèbre, appelait la « folle du logis ». « Mythe et fiction », un pléonasme ? Le...
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Œdipe roi de Sophocle (Analyse approfondie)

Approfondissez votre lecture des romans classiques et modernes avec Profil-Litteraire.fr

by Harmony Vanderborght, Profil-litteraire.fr
Language: French
Release Date: June 9, 2017

Retrouvez dans cette analyse approfondie d'Œdipe roi de Sophocle tout ce que vous devez savoir sur cette oeuvre classique !Après la disparition du roi de Thèbes, Laïos, la cité grecque semble frappée d'une malédiction. Sur les conseils de l'oracle d'Apollon, Œdipe décide de retrouver l'assassin...
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Les « Emblèmes » dAndré Alciat

Introduction, texte latin, traduction et commentaire dun choix demblèmes sur les animaux

by Anne-Angélique Andenmatten
Language: French
Release Date: February 13, 2018

L’humaniste et juriste milanais André Alciat (1492-1550) est connu pour être le créateur de ce qui deviendra, au cours du XVIe siècle, le genre de l’emblème, caractérisé par sa structure tripartite (inscriptio, pictura, subscriptio). L’Emblematum liber, publié pour la première fois...
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