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131 produkter
Alexander the Great
Lives and Legacies
Inbunden, 2025
183 kr
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This book offers a fresh perspective on the reign of Alexander the Great. It re-examines Alexander’s military victories and personality, while also exploring the impact of his campaigns on the people he conquered. Alexander’s story, Stephen Harrison argues, is one that includes the vital roles that …
Babel
Adventures in Translation
Av Dennis Duncan, Stephen Harrison m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
296 kr
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This innovative collection of essays shows how linguistic diversity has inspired people across time and cultures to embark on adventurous journeys through the translation of texts. It tells the story of how ideas have travelled via the medium of translation into different languages and cultures, …
Classical Scholarship and Its History
From the Renaissance to the Present. Essays in Honour of Christopher Stray
Av Stephen Harrison, Christopher Pelling
Häftad, 2022
346 kr
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It is unusual for a single scholar practically to reorient an entire sub-field of study, but this is what Chris Stray has done for the history of UK classical scholarship. His remarkable combination of interests in the sociology of scholars and scholarship, in the history of the book and of …
Remaking the Classics
Literature, Genre and Media in Britain 1800-2000
Av Lorna Hardwick, Stephen Harrison m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
2446 kr
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This important collection of essays both contributes to the expanding field of classical reception studies and seeks to extend it. Focusing on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain, it looks at a range of different genres (epic, novel, lyric, tragedy, political pamphlet). Within the published …
Classics in the Modern World
A Democratic Turn?
Av Stephen Harrison, Lorna Hardwick
E-bok, 2013
1473 kr
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Classics in the Modern World brings together a collection of distinguished international contributors to discuss the features and implications of a ''democratic turn'' in modern perceptions of ancient Greece and Rome. It examines how Greek and Roman material has been involved with issues of …
Lucretius and the Early Modern
Av Philip Hardie, Stephen Harrison m. fl.
E-bok, 2015
1834 kr
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The rediscovery in the fifteenth century of Lucretius'' De rerum natura was a challenge to received ideas. The poem offered a vision of the creation of the universe, the origins and goals of human life, and the formation of the state, all without reference to divine intervention. It has been hailed …
Rediscovering E. R. Dodds
Scholarship, Education, Poetry, and the Paranormal
Av Stephen Harrison, Christopher Pelling m. fl.
E-bok, 2019
1666 kr
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Rediscovering E. R. Dodds offers the first comprehensive assessment of a remarkable classical scholar, who was also a poet with extensive links to twentieth-century English and Irish literary culture, the friend of Auden and MacNeice. Dodds was born in Northern Ireland, but made his name as Regius …
Rediscovering E. R. Dodds
Scholarship, Education, Poetry, and the Paranormal
Av Stephen Harrison, Christopher Pelling m. fl.
E-bok, 2019
1666 kr
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Rediscovering E. R. Dodds offers the first comprehensive assessment of a remarkable classical scholar, who was also a poet with extensive links to twentieth-century English and Irish literary culture, the friend of Auden and MacNeice. Dodds was born in Northern Ireland, but made his name as Regius …
Classics in the Modern World
A Democratic Turn?
Av Stephen Harrison, Lorna Hardwick
E-bok, 2013
1473 kr
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Classics in the Modern World brings together a collection of distinguished international contributors to discuss the features and implications of a ''democratic turn'' in modern perceptions of ancient Greece and Rome. It examines how Greek and Roman material has been involved with issues of …
Epic Performances from the Middle Ages into the Twenty-First Century
Av Claire Kenward, Stephen Harrison m. fl.
E-bok, 2018
1756 kr
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Greek and Roman epic poetry has always provided creative artists in the modern world with a rich storehouse of themes. Tim Supple and Simon Reade''s 1999 stage adaptation of Ted Hughes'' Tales from Ovid for the RSC heralded a new lease of life for receptions of the genre, and it now routinely …
Epic Performances from the Middle Ages into the Twenty-First Century
Av Claire Kenward, Stephen Harrison m. fl.
E-bok, 2018
1756 kr
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Greek and Roman epic poetry has always provided creative artists in the modern world with a rich storehouse of themes. Tim Supple and Simon Reade''s 1999 stage adaptation of Ted Hughes'' Tales from Ovid for the RSC heralded a new lease of life for receptions of the genre, and it now routinely …
Seamus Heaney and the Classics
Bann Valley Muses
Av Helen Eastman, Fiona Macintosh m. fl.
E-bok, 2019
1497 kr
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Seamus Heaney, the great Irish poet, made a significant contribution to classical reception in modern poetry; though occasional essays have appeared in the past, this volume is the first to be wholly dedicated to this perspective on his work. Comprising literary criticism by scholars of both …
Seamus Heaney and the Classics
Bann Valley Muses
Av Helen Eastman, Fiona Macintosh m. fl.
E-bok, 2019
1258 kr
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Seamus Heaney, the great Irish poet, made a significant contribution to classical reception in modern poetry; though occasional essays have appeared in the past, this volume is the first to be wholly dedicated to this perspective on his work. Comprising literary criticism by scholars of both …
Complex Inferiorities
The Poetics of the Weaker Voice in Latin Literature
Av Stephen Harrison, Sebastian Matzner
E-bok, 2018
1476 kr
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This volume investigates an important and surprisingly widespread phenomenon in Latin literature, which has to date received little sustained discussion: the deliberate assumption of a weaker voice by speakers who in fact hold sufficient status not to be forced into this position. Though often …
Complex Inferiorities
The Poetics of the Weaker Voice in Latin Literature
Av Stephen Harrison, Sebastian Matzner
E-bok, 2018
1476 kr
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This volume investigates an important and surprisingly widespread phenomenon in Latin literature, which has to date received little sustained discussion: the deliberate assumption of a weaker voice by speakers who in fact hold sufficient status not to be forced into this position. Though often …
Roman Receptions of Sappho
Av Stephen Harrison, Thea S. Thorsen
E-bok, 2018
1898 kr
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Sappho, a towering figure in Western culture, is an exemplary case in the history of classical receptions. There are three prominent reasons for this. Firstly, Sappho is associated with some of the earliest poetry in the classical tradition, which makes her reception history one of the longest we …
Roman Receptions of Sappho
Av Stephen Harrison, Thea S. Thorsen
E-bok, 2018
1898 kr
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Sappho, a towering figure in Western culture, is an exemplary case in the history of classical receptions. There are three prominent reasons for this. Firstly, Sappho is associated with some of the earliest poetry in the classical tradition, which makes her reception history one of the longest we …
Apuleius in European Literature
Cupid and Psyche since 1650
Av Regine May, Stephen Harrison
E-bok, 2024
1476 kr
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The story of Cupid and Psyche is first known through the Latin novel Metamorphoses or The Golden Ass by the second-century AD writer Apuleius--one of the few Latin fictions from Roman antiquity to have survived in its entirety. Apuleius in European Literature: Cupid and Psyche since 1650 examines …
Apuleius in European Literature
Cupid and Psyche since 1650
Av Regine May, Stephen Harrison
E-bok, 2024
1476 kr
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The story of Cupid and Psyche is first known through the Latin novel Metamorphoses or The Golden Ass by the second-century AD writer Apuleius--one of the few Latin fictions from Roman antiquity to have survived in its entirety. Apuleius in European Literature: Cupid and Psyche since 1650 examines …
Rupert Brooke, Charles Sorley, Isaac Rosenberg, and Wilfred Owen
Classical Connections
Av Lorna Hardwick, Stephen Harrison m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
1566 kr
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Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, and Charles Sorley all died in the First Word War. They came from diverse social, educational, and cultural backgrounds, but for all of the writers, engagement with Greek and Roman antiquity was decisive in shaping their war poetry.The world views and …
Apuleius in European Literature
Cupid and Psyche since 1650
Av Stephen Harrison, Regine May
Inbunden, 2024
2186 kr
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The story of Cupid and Psyche is first known through the Latin novel Metamorphoses or The Golden Ass by the second-century AD writer Apuleius--one of the few Latin fictions from Roman antiquity to have survived in its entirety. Apuleius in European Literature: Cupid and Psyche since 1650 examines …
Lucretius and the Early Modern
Av David Norbrook, Stephen Harrison m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
2863 kr
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The rediscovery in the fifteenth century of Lucretius' De rerum natura was a challenge to received ideas. The poem offered a vision of the creation of the universe, the origins and goals of human life, and the formation of the state, all without reference to divine intervention. It has been hailed …
Rediscovering E. R. Dodds
Scholarship, Education, Poetry, and the Paranormal
Av Christopher Stray, Christopher Stray m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
1853 kr
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Rediscovering E. R. Dodds offers the first comprehensive assessment of a remarkable classical scholar, who was also a poet with extensive links to twentieth-century English and Irish literary culture, the friend of Auden and MacNeice. Dodds was born in Northern Ireland, but made his name as Regius …
Epic Performances from the Middle Ages into the Twenty-First Century
Av Fiona Macintosh, Justine McConnell m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
3107 kr
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Greek and Roman epic poetry has always provided creative artists in the modern world with a rich storehouse of themes. Tim Supple and Simon Reade's 1999 stage adaptation of Ted Hughes' Tales from Ovid for the RSC heralded a new lease of life for receptions of the genre, and it now routinely …
Seamus Heaney and the Classics
Bann Valley Muses
Av Stephen Harrison, Fiona Macintosh m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
1812 kr
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Seamus Heaney, the great Irish poet, made a significant contribution to classical reception in modern poetry; though occasional essays have appeared in the past, this volume is the first to be wholly dedicated to this perspective on his work. Comprising literary criticism by scholars of both …
Complex Inferiorities
The Poetics of the Weaker Voice in Latin Literature
Av Sebastian Matzner, Stephen Harrison
Inbunden, 2018
2336 kr
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This volume investigates an important and surprisingly widespread phenomenon in Latin literature, which has to date received little sustained discussion: the deliberate assumption of a weaker voice by speakers who in fact hold sufficient status not to be forced into this position. Though often …
Roman Receptions of Sappho
Av Thea S. Thorsen, Stephen Harrison
Inbunden, 2019
3107 kr
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Sappho, a towering figure in Western culture, is an exemplary case in the history of classical receptions. There are three prominent reasons for this. Firstly, Sappho is associated with some of the earliest poetry in the classical tradition, which makes her reception history one of the longest we …
Rupert Brooke, Charles Sorley, Isaac Rosenberg, and Wilfred Owen
Classical Connections
Av Elizabeth Vandiver, Stephen Harrison m. fl.
E-bok, 2024
1581 kr
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Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, and Charles Sorley all died in the First Word War. They came from diverse social, educational, and cultural backgrounds, but for all of the writers, engagement with Greek and Roman antiquity was decisive in shaping their war poetry.The world views and …
Rupert Brooke, Charles Sorley, Isaac Rosenberg, and Wilfred Owen
Classical Connections
Av Elizabeth Vandiver, Stephen Harrison m. fl.
E-bok, 2024
1581 kr
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Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, and Charles Sorley all died in the First Word War. They came from diverse social, educational, and cultural backgrounds, but for all of the writers, engagement with Greek and Roman antiquity was decisive in shaping their war poetry.The world views and …
Greek and Roman Antiquity in First World War Poetry
Making Connections
Av Lorna Hardwick, Stephen Harrison m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
1510 kr
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Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, and Charles Sorley all died in the First Word War. They came from diverse social, educational, and cultural backgrounds, but for all of the writers, engagement with Greek and Roman antiquity was decisive in shaping their war poetry.The world views and …
