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Civil War and the Collapse of the Social Bond
The Roman Tradition at the Heart of the Modern
Av Michèle Lowrie, Barbara Vinken
Häftad, 2023
502 kr
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Can civil war ever be overcome? Can a better order come into being? This book explores how the Roman civil wars of the first century BCE laid the template for addressing perennially urgent questions. The Roman Republic's collapse and Augustus' new Empire have remained ideological battlegrounds to …
Classics and Celtic Literary Modernism
Yeats, Joyce, MacDiarmid and Jones
Häftad, 2023
499 kr
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Celtic modernism had a complex history with classical reception. In this book, Gregory Baker examines the work of W. B. Yeats, James Joyce, David Jones and Hugh MacDiarmid to show how new forms of modernist literary expression emerged as the evolution of classical education, the insurgent power of …
Blindness and Spectatorship in Ancient and Modern Theatres
Towards New Ways of Looking and Looking Back
Inbunden, 2023
1685 kr
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The use of disability as a metaphor is ubiquitous in popular culture - nowhere more so than in the myths, stereotypes and tropes around blindness. To be 'blind' has never referred solely to the inability to see. Instead blindness has been used as shorthand for, among other things, a lack of …
Ancient Fantasies and Modern Power
Neo-Antique Architecture at American World's Fairs, 1893-1915
Häftad, 2026
605 kr
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Chicago's Columbian Exposition of 1893 celebrated the quadricentennial of Columbus's 'discovery" of the Americas by creating a fantastical white city composed of Roman triumphal arches and domes, Corinthian colonnades, and Egyptian obelisks. World's fairs were among the most important cultural, …
Ancient Fantasies and Modern Power
Neo-Antique Architecture at American World's Fairs, 1893-1915
Inbunden, 2026
1576 kr
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Chicago's Columbian Exposition of 1893 celebrated the quadricentennial of Columbus's 'discovery" of the Americas by creating a fantastical white city composed of Roman triumphal arches and domes, Corinthian colonnades, and Egyptian obelisks. World's fairs were among the most important cultural, …
Medieval Responses to Ovid's Exile
Inbunden, 2025
1704 kr
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The Augustan poet Ovid exerted significant influence over the Middle Ages, and his exile captured the later medieval imagination. Medieval Responses to Ovid's Exile examines a variety of creative scholastic and literary responses to Ovid's exile across medieval culture. It ranges across the …
Classical Victorians
Scholars, Scoundrels and Generals in Pursuit of Antiquity
Inbunden, 2013
1531 kr
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Victorian Britain set out to make the ancient world its own. This is the story of how it failed. It is the story of the headmaster who bludgeoned his wife to death, then calmly sat down to his Latin. It is the story of the embittered classical prodigy who turned to gin and opium - and the virtuoso …
The Perpetual Immigrant and the Limits of Athenian Democracy
Inbunden, 2018
1575 kr
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In the fifth and fourth centuries BCE, immigrants called 'metics' (metoikoi) settled in Athens without a path to citizenship. Galvanized by these political realities, classical thinkers cast a critical eye on the nativism defining democracy's membership rules and explored the city's anxieties over …
Modernism and Homer
The Odysseys of H.D., James Joyce, Osip Mandelstam, and Ezra Pound
Inbunden, 2015
1832 kr
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This comparative study crosses multiple cultures, traditions, genres, and languages in order to explore the particular importance of Homer in the emergence, development, and promotion of modernist writing. It shows how and why the Homeric epics served both modernist formal experimentation, …
Afterlives of the Roman Poets
Biofiction and the Reception of Latin Poetry
Inbunden, 2019
2153 kr
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Conscious of ancient modes of reading poetry 'for the life', Roman poets encoded versions of their lives into their texts. The result is a body of literature that cries out to be read in terms of lives in reception. Afterlives of the Roman Poets shows how the fictional biographies (or …
Feeling and Classical Philology
Knowing Antiquity in German Scholarship, 1770-1920
Häftad, 2022
486 kr
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Nineteenth-century German classical philology underpins many structures of the modern humanities. In this book, Constanze Güthenke shows how a language of love and a longing for closeness with a personified antiquity have lastingly shaped modern professional reading habits, notions of biography, …
Modernism and Homer
The Odysseys of H.D., James Joyce, Osip Mandelstam, and Ezra Pound
Häftad, 2020
654 kr
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This comparative study crosses multiple cultures, traditions, genres, and languages in order to explore the particular importance of Homer in the emergence, development, and promotion of modernist writing. It shows how and why the Homeric epics served both modernist formal experimentation, …
The Perpetual Immigrant and the Limits of Athenian Democracy
Häftad, 2019
426 kr
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In the fifth and fourth centuries BCE, immigrants called 'metics' (metoikoi) settled in Athens without a path to citizenship. Galvanized by these political realities, classical thinkers cast a critical eye on the nativism defining democracy's membership rules and explored the city's anxieties over …
Borges' Classics
Global Encounters with the Graeco-Roman Past
Av Laura Jansen
Häftad, 2024
457 kr
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In Borges' Classics, Laura Jansen reads the oeuvre of the Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges as a radically globalized model for reimagining our relationship with the classical past. This major study reveals how Borges constructs a new 'physics of reading' the classics, which privileges a …
Borges' Classics
Global Encounters with the Graeco-Roman Past
Av Laura Jansen
Inbunden, 2018
1872 kr
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In Borges' Classics, Laura Jansen reads the oeuvre of the Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges as a radically globalized model for reimagining our relationship with the classical past. This major study reveals how Borges constructs a new 'physics of reading' the classics, which privileges a …
Translating Virgil
A Cultural History of the Western Tradition from the Eleventh Century to the Present
Inbunden, 2025
2468 kr
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Virgil remains one of the most important poets in the history of literature. This emerges in the rich translation history of his poems. Hardly a European language exists into which at least one of his poems has not been translated, from Basque to Ukrainian and Dutch to Turkish. Susanna Braund's …
The Vernacular Aristotle
Translation as Reception in Medieval and Renaissance Italy
Inbunden, 2020
1832 kr
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This book explores the ways in which Aristotle's legacy was appropriated and reshaped by vernacular readers in Medieval and Renaissance Italy. It considers translation in a broad sense, looking at commentaries, compendia, rewritings, and abridgments alongside vernacular versions of Aristotle's …
Dionysus after Nietzsche
The Birth of Tragedy in Twentieth-Century Literature and Thought
Av Adam Lecznar
Inbunden, 2020
1585 kr
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Dionysus after Nietzsche examines the way that The Birth of Tragedy (1872) by Friedrich Nietzsche irrevocably influenced twentieth-century literature and thought. Adam Lecznar argues that Nietzsche's Dionysus became a symbol of the irrational forces of culture that cannot be contained, and explores …
Brecht and Tragedy
Radicalism, Traditionalism, Eristics
Inbunden, 2021
1641 kr
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This wide-ranging, detailed and engaging study of Brecht's complex relationship with Greek tragedy and tragic tradition argues that this is fundamental for understanding his radicalism. Featuring an extensive discussion of The Antigone of Sophocles (1948) and further related works (the Antigone …
The Nero-Antichrist
Founding and Fashioning a Paradigm
Inbunden, 2020
1585 kr
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It has traditionally been assumed that biblical writers considered Nero to be the Antichrist.. This book refutes that view. Beginning by challenging the assumption that literary representations of Nero as tyrant would have been easily recognisable to those in the eastern Roman empire, where most …
Dionysus after Nietzsche
The Birth of Tragedy in Twentieth-Century Literature and Thought
Av Adam Lecznar
Häftad, 2024
457 kr
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Dionysus after Nietzsche examines the way that The Birth of Tragedy (1872) by Friedrich Nietzsche irrevocably influenced twentieth-century literature and thought. Adam Lecznar argues that Nietzsche's Dionysus became a symbol of the irrational forces of culture that cannot be contained, and explores …
The Vernacular Aristotle
Translation as Reception in Medieval and Renaissance Italy
Häftad, 2023
523 kr
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This book explores the ways in which Aristotle's legacy was appropriated and reshaped by vernacular readers in Medieval and Renaissance Italy. It considers translation in a broad sense, looking at commentaries, compendia, rewritings, and abridgments alongside vernacular versions of Aristotle's …
Brecht and Tragedy
Radicalism, Traditionalism, Eristics
Häftad, 2022
569 kr
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This wide-ranging, detailed and engaging study of Brecht's complex relationship with Greek tragedy and tragic tradition argues that this is fundamental for understanding his radicalism. Featuring an extensive discussion of The Antigone of Sophocles (1948) and further related works (the Antigone …
The Nero-Antichrist
Founding and Fashioning a Paradigm
Häftad, 2024
467 kr
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It has traditionally been assumed that biblical writers considered Nero to be the Antichrist.. This book refutes that view. Beginning by challenging the assumption that literary representations of Nero as tyrant would have been easily recognisable to those in the eastern Roman empire, where most …
Classics and Celtic Literary Modernism
Yeats, Joyce, MacDiarmid and Jones
Inbunden, 2022
1362 kr
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Celtic modernism had a complex history with classical reception. In this book, Gregory Baker examines the work of W. B. Yeats, James Joyce, David Jones and Hugh MacDiarmid to show how new forms of modernist literary expression emerged as the evolution of classical education, the insurgent power of …
Civil War and the Collapse of the Social Bond
The Roman Tradition at the Heart of the Modern
Av Michèle Lowrie, Barbara Vinken
Inbunden, 2022
1565 kr
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Can civil war ever be overcome? Can a better order come into being? This book explores how the Roman civil wars of the first century BCE laid the template for addressing perennially urgent questions. The Roman Republic's collapse and Augustus' new Empire have remained ideological battlegrounds to …
Classical Victorians
Scholars, Scoundrels and Generals in Pursuit of Antiquity
Häftad, 2016
586 kr
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Victorian Britain set out to make the ancient world its own. This is the story of how it failed. It is the story of the headmaster who bludgeoned his wife to death, then calmly sat down to his Latin. It is the story of the embittered classical prodigy who turned to gin and opium - and the virtuoso …
Afterlives of the Roman Poets
Biofiction and the Reception of Latin Poetry
Häftad, 2024
560 kr
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Conscious of ancient modes of reading poetry 'for the life', Roman poets encoded versions of their lives into their texts. The result is a body of literature that cries out to be read in terms of lives in reception. Afterlives of the Roman Poets shows how the fictional biographies (or …
Feeling and Classical Philology
Knowing Antiquity in German Scholarship, 1770-1920
Inbunden, 2020
1585 kr
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Nineteenth-century German classical philology underpins many structures of the modern humanities. In this book, Constanze Güthenke shows how a language of love and a longing for closeness with a personified antiquity have lastingly shaped modern professional reading habits, notions of biography, …
