Ancient Classical category: 1324 books
Between Sequence and Sirventes
Aspects of the Parody in the Troubadour Lyric
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
"Parody marks the troubadour lyric from the outset, informing composition, performance and reception. This ground breaking study moves away from courtliness, the focus of most previous studies, and places troubadour parodic preactice int he context of the social and spiritual debates of 12th...
Prudentius, Spain, and Late Antique Christianity
Poetry, Visual Culture, and the Cult of Martyrs
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
This book provides an innovative approach to the Hispano-Roman Christian poet Prudentius and his poetry. It is a breakthrough in Prudentian scholarship which unifies the differing disciplines of history, archaeology, literature and art history in arguing that Prudentius and his envisaged Spanish audience...
by Andrew Lang
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016
Andrew Lang was a Scottish writer best known for collecting folklore, legends, and fairy tales and making a compendium of them to celebrate ethnic heritage.
The Apologetic Revisited
Exonerating Luke from an Ancestral Exegetical and Theological Burden
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
The trend in the scholarship of Luke has been that of presenting Luke as being interested in the survival of Christianity within the Power apparatus of the Roman world. To achieve this pivotal aim, he seems to overlook the abysmal social maladies and wrongdoings of the Powerful of his time hoping...
Fallen Animals
Art, Religion, Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
The premise of Fallen Animals is that some how and in some way The Fall of Adam and Eve as related in the Bible has affected all living beings from the largest to the smallest, from the oldest to the youngest, regardless of gender and geography. The movement from the blissful arena of the Garden of...
by Bruce Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 1999
This CliffsNotes guide includes everything you’ve come to expect from the trusted experts at CliffsNotes, including analysis of the most widely read literary works.
The Young Contributor
From 'Literature and Life'
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an American realist author and literary critic. He wrote his first novel, Their Wedding Journey, in 1871, but his literary reputation really took off with the realist novel A Modern Instance, published in 1882, which describes the decay of a marriage. His 1885...
by Janet Amber
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
Thank you for your interest in this booklet. The "...The Basics" series, is a series of booklets designed to help you get the basics or foundations about a subject. Time is one of our most precious resources and as such it does not comeback, for that reason the Amber siblings have created...
by Old Natural Ways, Rebecca Hartman
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Have you ever heard the phrase, “a stoic expression”? Most of us probably have and most of us probably understand it means to have a blank expression – quite useful in a poker game. It does go far beyond here though. The phrase regarding stoic expressions comes from the principle stoic belief...
by Elsie Spicer Eells
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2016
American author Elsie Spicer Ells collected folklore and fairy tales from Brazil, Spain, and the Azores, with many stories for children featuring animals.
Sofocle. Le tragedie
Tutto il teatro di Sofocle: Aiace, Trachinie, Antigone, Elettra, Edipo re, Filottete, Edipo a Colono
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Tutto il teatro di Sofocle: Aiace, Trachinie, Antigone, Elettra, Edipo re, Filottete, Edipo a Colono. Celebrato per la purezza dello stile e per la perfezione della struttura drammaturgica, Sofocle è il più limpido ma anche il più complesso ed enigmatico dei tre grandi tragici greci. Ateniese,...
Understanding «Praise of Folly» by Erasmus
Analysis of the essential chapters of Erasmus' Praise of Folly
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2018
Analysis of the essential chapters of Erasmus' Praise of Folly.
by Laura F. Kready
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
A fairy tale (also known as wonder tales, magic tales, or Märchen) is a genre of folklore presented as a short story typically featuring things like dwarfs, elves, dragons, fairies, giants, and magic or enchantments. In this vintage book, Laura F. Kready explores the fairy story in great detail,...
by Bliss Perry
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
My confidence that the genetic method is the natural way of approaching the subject has been shared by many lovers of poetry. I hope, however, that I have not allowed my insistence upon the threefold process of “impression, transforming imagination, and expression” to harden into a set formula....