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Epistemic Impressions
Making and Mediating Classical Art and Text
Av Verity Platt
Inbunden, 2025
1755 kr
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Epistemic Impressions advances a new history of image-making and art-text relations in classical antiquity. Moving away from a focus on imitation (mimēsis), it looks instead to the concept of the seal-impression (typos), which played a vital role in ancient philosophies of mind: seals were …
Biopolitics and Ancient Thought
Av Jussi Backman, Jussi Backman m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
1682 kr
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The volume studies, from different perspectives, the relationship between ancient thought and biopolitics, that is, theories, discourses, and practices in which the biological life of human populations becomes the focal point of political government. It thus continues and deepens the critical …
Plato and the Metaphysical Feminine
One Hundred and One Nights
Av Irene Han
Inbunden, 2023
1287 kr
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Plato and the Metaphysical Feminine offers a new interpretation of the role of the female and the feminine in Plato's political dialogues--the Republic, Laws, and Timaeus--informed by Deleuze's film theory and Irigaray's psychoanalytic feminism. Irene Han reads Plato against the grain in order to …
Homer's Iliad and the Problem of Force
Inbunden, 2023
2102 kr
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The topic of force has long remained a problem of interpretation for readers of Homer's Iliad, ever since Simone Weil famously proclaimed it as the poem's main subject. This book seeks to address that problem through a full-scale treatment of the language of force in the Iliad from both …
The Art of Complicity in Martial and Statius
Martial's Epigrams, Statius' Silvae, and Domitianic Rome
Inbunden, 2021
2099 kr
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The Art of Complicity in Martial and Statius examines the relationship between politics and aesthetics in two poets from the reign of Domitian. Gunderson offers a comprehensive overview of the Epigrams of Martial and the Siluae of Statius. The praise of power found in these texts is not something …
Rethinking Metonymy
Literary Theory and Poetic Practice from Pindar to Jakobson
Inbunden, 2016
2099 kr
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Although metonymy has long been recognized as being a central device in poetic language, it has received little critical attention in its own right. Not only has this created a gap in literary analytical scholarship which needs to be addressed, but it has also allowed for problematic appropriations …
Rethinking Metonymy
Literary Theory and Poetic Practice from Pindar to Jakobson
Häftad, 2019
484 kr
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Although metonymy has long been recognized as being a central device in poetic language, it has received little critical attention in its own right. Not only has this created a gap in literary analytical scholarship which needs to be addressed, but it has also allowed for problematic appropriations …
Antiquities Beyond Humanism
Av Emanuela Bianchi, Sara Brill m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
1894 kr
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Greco-Roman antiquity is often presumed to provide the very paradigm of humanism from the Renaissance to the present. This paradigm has been increasingly challenged by new theoretical currents such as posthumanism and the "new materialisms", which point toward entities, forces, and systems that …
The Ancient Unconscious
Psychoanalysis and the Ancient Text
Inbunden, 2019
2437 kr
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In the field of classical studies, the psychoanalytic construction of the unconscious is rarely regarded as a fruitful methodological concept. Commonly understood as a modern conceptual invention rather than the discovery of a psychic reality, the notion of the unconscious is often criticized as an …
Aristotle on the Concept of Shared Life
Av Sara Brill
Inbunden, 2020
1647 kr
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According to the terms of Aristotle's Politics, to be alive is to instantiate a form of rule. In the growth of plants, the perceptual capacities and movement of animals, and the impulse that motivates thinking, speaking, and deliberating Aristotle sees the working of a powerful generative force …
Inventing the Novel
Bakhtin and Petronius Face to Face
Inbunden, 2019
2178 kr
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Inventing the Novel uses the work of the Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) to explore the ancient origins of the modern novel. The analysis focuses on one of the most elusive works of classical antiquity, the Satyrica, written by Nero's courtier, Petronius Arbiter (whose singular …
Encounters with the Plague in Homer, Sophocles, and Thucydides
Inbunden, 2025
1631 kr
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Encounters with the Plague in Homer, Sophocles, and Thucydides explores three of the earliest, and most influential, accounts of plague visitations in Western literature: Homer's Iliad book 1 (1-487), Sophocles' Oedipus the King (esp. 1-215), and Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War book 2 …
Law and Love in Ovid
Courting Justice in the Age of Augustus
Inbunden, 2021
2058 kr
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In classical scholarship, the presence of legal language in love poetry is commonly interpreted as absurd and incongruous. Ovid's legalisms have been described as frivolous, humorous, and ornamental. Law and Love in Ovid challenges this wide-spread, but ill-informed view. Legal discourse in Latin …
Metalepsis
Ancient Texts, New Perspectives
Av Sebastian Matzner, Sebastian Matzner m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
1935 kr
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'Metalepsis' is a term from classical rhetoric, but in the twentieth century, it was re-framed more broadly as a crossing of the boundaries that separate distinct narrative worlds. This modern notion of metalepsis, introduced by Gérard Genette, has so far largely been theorized on the basis of …
Sarah Kofman and Ancient Thought
Learning to Live at Last
Av John McKeane
Inbunden, 2026
1262 kr
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This volume is four books in one: a monograph on Sarah Kofman; an exploration of the 'philosophy in-deed' group she formed with Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe; a study of ancient thought's reception in 20th-century France; and an exploration of the concept of life. It …
Truth and Enjoyment in Cicero
Rhetoric and Philosophy Beyond the Pleasure Principle
Inbunden, 2026
1713 kr
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Truth and Enjoyment in Cicero offers a fundamental re-examination of the relation between truth and enjoyment as understood in the traditional confrontation between rhetoric and philosophy in Cicero. His simultaneous advocacy of classical rationality and continued emphasis on the importance of …
The Emergence of Ontological Styles of Thinking in Ancient Greece
Inbunden, 2025
1631 kr
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This book presents an innovative theoretical framework for exploring the intellectual culture of ancient Greece in the period 450–350 BC. The bewildering questions and surprising opportunities posed by emergent styles of ontological thinking at this time, about issues of being and becoming, of …
Diotima at the Barricades
French Feminists Read Plato
Inbunden, 2015
2389 kr
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Diotima at the Barricades argues that the debates that emerged from the burgeoning of feminist intellectual life in post-modern France involved complex, structured, and reciprocal exchanges on the interpretation and position of Plato and other ancient texts in the western philosophical and literary …
Diotima at the Barricades
French Feminists Read Plato
Häftad, 2019
402 kr
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Diotima at the Barricades argues that the debates that emerged from the burgeoning of feminist intellectual life in post-modern France involved complex, structured, and reciprocal exchanges on the interpretation and position of Plato and other ancient texts in the western philosophical and literary …
Narratology
Inbunden, 2019
2336 kr
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This volume explores the extraordinary contribution that classical poetics has made to twentieth and twenty-first century theories of narrative, aiming not to argue that modern narratologies simply present 'old wine in new wineskins', but rather to identify the diachronic affinities shared between …
