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14 produkter
Cast of Character
Style in Greek Literature
Av Nancy Worman
Häftad, 2003
382 kr
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Well before Aristotle's Rhetoric elucidated the elements of verbal style that give writing its persuasive power, Greek poets and prose authors understood the importance of style in creating compelling characters to engage an audience. And because their works were composed in predominantly oral …
Abusive Mouths in Classical Athens
Av Nancy Worman
Häftad, 2011
672 kr
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This study of the language of insult charts abuse in classical Athenian literature that centres on the mouth and its appetites, especially talking, eating, drinking, and sexual activities. Attic comedy, Platonic dialogue, and fourth-century oratory often deploy insulting depictions of the mouth and …
Landscape and the Spaces of Metaphor in Ancient Literary Theory and Criticism
Av Nancy Worman
Inbunden, 2015
1785 kr
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This study explores a previously uncharted area of ancient literary theory and criticism: the ancient landscapes (such as the Ilissus river in Athens and Mount Helicon) that generate metaphors for distinguishing styles, which dovetail with ancient conceptions of metaphor as itself spatial and …
Abusive Mouths in Classical Athens
Av Nancy Worman
Inbunden, 2008
1928 kr
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This study of the language of insult charts abuse in classical Athenian literature that centres on the mouth and its appetites, especially talking, eating, drinking, and sexual activities. Attic comedy, Platonic dialogue, and fourth-century oratory often deploy insulting depictions of the mouth and …
Space, Place, and Landscape in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture
Inbunden, 2014
1850 kr
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This book brings together a collection of original essays that engage with cultural geography and landscape studies to produce new ways of understanding place, space, and landscape in Greek literature from the fifth and fourth centuries BCE. The authors draw on an eclectic collection of …
Landscape and the Spaces of Metaphor in Ancient Literary Theory and Criticism
Av Nancy Worman
Häftad, 2020
767 kr
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This study explores a previously uncharted area of ancient literary theory and criticism: the ancient landscapes (such as the Ilissus river in Athens and Mount Helicon) that generate metaphors for distinguishing styles, which dovetail with ancient conceptions of metaphor as itself spatial and …
Tragic Bodies
Edges of the Human in Greek Drama
Av Nancy Worman
Inbunden, 2020
1466 kr
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Winner of the PROSE Award (2022) for ClassicsThis book argues for a new way of reading tragedy that attends to how bodies in the ancient plays pivot between subject and object, person and thing, living and dead, and so serve as vehicles for confronting the edges of the human. At the same time, it …
Tragic Bodies
Edges of the Human in Greek Drama
Av Nancy Worman
Häftad, 2020
461 kr
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Winner of the PROSE Award (2022) for ClassicsThis book argues for a new way of reading tragedy that attends to how bodies in the ancient plays pivot between subject and object, person and thing, living and dead, and so serve as vehicles for confronting the edges of the human. At the same time, it …
Tragic Bodies
Edges of the Human in Greek Drama
Av Nancy Worman
E-bok, 2020
502 kr
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Winner of the PROSE Award (2022) for Classics This book argues for a new way of reading tragedy that attends to how bodies in the ancient plays pivot between subject and object, person and thing, living and dead, and so serve as vehicles for confronting the edges of the human. At the same time, it …
Tragic Bodies
Edges of the Human in Greek Drama
Av Nancy Worman
E-bok, 2020
491 kr
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Winner of the PROSE Award (2022) for Classics This book argues for a new way of reading tragedy that attends to how bodies in the ancient plays pivot between subject and object, person and thing, living and dead, and so serve as vehicles for confronting the edges of the human. At the same time, it …
Virginia Woolf's Greek Tragedy
Häftad, 2020
559 kr
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In Woolf's writings Greece and Greek tragedy in particular shape an exoticized aesthetic space that both emerges from and enables critique of the cosy settings and colonialist conceits of elite (and largely male) British attitudes toward culture and politics. Rather than highlighting Woolf's …
Virginia Woolf's Greek Tragedy
Av Nancy Worman
E-bok, 2018
590 kr
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In Woolf''s writings Greece and Greek tragedy in particular shape an exoticized aesthetic space that both emerges from and enables critique of the cosy settings and colonialist conceits of elite (and largely male) British attitudes toward culture and politics. Rather than highlighting Woolf''s …
Virginia Woolf's Greek Tragedy
Av Nancy Worman
E-bok, 2018
596 kr
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In Woolf''s writings Greece and Greek tragedy in particular shape an exoticized aesthetic space that both emerges from and enables critique of the cosy settings and colonialist conceits of elite (and largely male) British attitudes toward culture and politics. Rather than highlighting Woolf''s …
Virginia Woolf's Greek Tragedy
Inbunden, 2018
1790 kr
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In Woolf's writings Greece and Greek tragedy in particular shape an exoticized aesthetic space that both emerges from and enables critique of the cosy settings and colonialist conceits of elite (and largely male) British attitudes toward culture and politics. Rather than highlighting Woolf's …
