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The Pervigilium Veneris
A New Critical Text, Translation and Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
This study provides a critical edition of the Pervigilium Veneris with a Latin text, translation and commentary. This late-antique poem, the 'Vigil of Venus', is of unknown date and authorship. It exists in four heavily corrupted manuscripts, including the Codex Salmasianus, as part of a collection...
Curiosa
Essais critiques de littérature ancienne ignorée ou mal connue ( Edition intégrale ) annoté
Language: French
Release Date: July 14, 2018
Ce recueil est formé d’Études et de Notices placées en tête de réimpressions ou de traductions d’ouvrages curieux à quelque titre, qui ont été publiées depuis une dizaine d’années environ par M. Isidore Liseux. Voltaire disait, non sans une apparence de raison, qu’un livre qui n’a...
Body of Vision
Northrop Frye and the Poetics of Mind
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
In Body of Vision, Michael Sinding connects Northrop Frye’s groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of the human imagination with cognitive poetics – the cutting-edge school of literary criticism that applies the principles of cognitive science to the interpretation of literary texts...
The Nature of Early Greek Lyric
Three Preliminary Studies
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1987
Three important literary questions in early Greek lyrics are addressed in this study. First, Fowler attempts to determine the extent that Homer and epic poetry generally influenced the lyric poets, with respect to both the style of compositions and their content. Identifying the certain examples of...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 1983
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 1983
Originally published in 1983, The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature was the first general survey of the field to have been published in English for over fifty years and the first attempted in such detail in a multi-volume form. The volumes of the History provide an invaluable source of reference...
by Beatrice Fannon
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
This volume brings together a wide range of original, scholarly essays on key figures and topics in medieval literature by leading academics. The volume examines the major authors such as Chaucer, Langland and the Gawain Poet, and covers key topics in medieval literature, including gender, class,...
Vie de Périclès
Traduit par D. Ricard, 1830
Language: French
Release Date: April 20, 2017
La vie de Pércilès de Plutarque, traduit par D. Ricard en 1830. Extrait: César, voyant un jour, à Rome, de riches étrangers qui portaient entre leurs bras de petits chiens et de petits singes auxquels ils prodiguaient les caresses, leur demanda si chez eux les femmes ne font point d’enfants....
by Apulée, Désiré Nisard
Language: French
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: August 11, 2015
(I, 1, 1) Je veux ici coudre ensemble divers récits du genre des fables milésiennes.
C’est une assez douce musique, et qui va chatouiller agréablement vos oreilles, pour peu qu’elles soient bénévoles, et que votre goût ne répugne pas aux...
Apuleius
A Latin Sophist
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2004
This book is a response to the literary pleasures and scholarly problems of reading the texts of Apuleius, most famous for his novel Metamorphoses or Golden Ass. Living in second-century North Africa, Apuleius was more than an author of fiction; he was a consummate orator and professional intellectual,...
by Paulin Paris
Language: French
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Language: French
Release Date: September 4, 2012
5 Oeuvres de Paulin Paris Historien français de la littérature, spécialiste de l’époque médiévale (1800-1881)
Ce livre numérique présente une collection de 5 Oeuvres de Paulin Paris éditées en texte intégral....
by Sean Sheehan
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
Modern scholarship judges Herodotus to be a more complex writer than his past readers supposed. His Histories is now being read in ways that are seemingly incompatible if not contradictory. This volume interrogates the various ways the text of the Histories has been and can be read by scholars: as...
by James Guillaume
Language: French
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Nos lecteurs connaissent les événements de Buenos-Aires, dont toute la presse a parlé. Le dimanche 14 novembre dernier, le chef de la police de la République Argentine, le colonel Falcon, et son secrétaire, ont été tués par une bombe. L’auteur...
Modern Honor
A Philosophical Defense
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
This book examines the notion of honor with an eye to dissecting its intellectual demise and with the aim of making a case for honor’s rehabilitation. Western intellectuals acknowledge honor’s influence, but they lament its authority. For Western democratic societies to embrace honor, it must...
Women Writing Latin
Women Writing Latin in Roman Antiquity, Late Antiquity, and the Early Christian Era
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
This book is part of a 3-volume anthology of women's writing in Latin from antiquity to the early modern era. Each volume provides texts, contexts, and translations of a wide variety of works produced by women, including dramatic, poetic, and devotional writing. Volume One covers the age of Roman Antiquity and early Christianity.