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Beyond Arthurian Romances - The Reach of Victorian Medievalism (Hardcover, 2005 ed.): J. Palmgren, L. Holloway Beyond Arthurian Romances - The Reach of Victorian Medievalism (Hardcover, 2005 ed.)
J. Palmgren, L. Holloway
R1,524 Discovery Miles 15 240 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Leaving the traditional focus on Arthurian romance and Gothic tales, the essays in this collection address how the Victorians looked back to the Middle Ages to create a sense of authority for their own ideas in areas such as art, religion, gender expectations, and social services. This book will interest specialists in the Victorian period from various fields and will also be a welcome addition to any library serving substantial humanities divisions. Because of the interdisciplinary nature of the essays, this collection would be useful in a wide range of humanities classes beyond the traditional literature class.

Evaluation of Research and Development - Methodologies for R&D Evaluation in the Community Member States, The United States of... Evaluation of Research and Development - Methodologies for R&D Evaluation in the Community Member States, The United States of America and Japan (Hardcover, 1984 ed.)
G. Boggio, E.Spachis- Papazois
R2,961 Discovery Miles 29 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Proceedings of the Seminar held in Brussels, Belgium, October 17-18, 1983

Declamationes Minores CB (Book, Reprint 2013 ed.): Quintilianus Declamationes Minores CB (Book, Reprint 2013 ed.)
Quintilianus
R3,925 Discovery Miles 39 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Die Bibliotheca Teubneriana, gegrundet 1849, ist die weltweit alteste, traditionsreichste und umfangreichste Editionsreihe griechischer und lateinischer Literatur von der Antike bis zur Neuzeit. Pro Jahr erscheinen 4-5 neue Editionen. Samtliche Ausgaben werden durch eine lateinische oder englische Praefatio erganzt. Die wissenschaftliche Betreuung der Reihe obliegt einem Team anerkannter Philologen: Gian Biagio Conte (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa) Marcus Deufert (Universitat Leipzig) James Diggle (University of Cambridge) Donald J. Mastronarde (University of California, Berkeley) Franco Montanari (Universita di Genova) Heinz-Gunther Nesselrath (Georg-August-Universitat Goettingen) Dirk Obbink (University of Oxford) Oliver Primavesi (Ludwig-Maximilians Universitat Munchen) Michael D. Reeve (University of Cambridge) Richard J. Tarrant (Harvard University) Vergriffene Titel werden als Print-on-Demand-Nachdrucke wieder verfugbar gemacht. Zudem werden alle Neuerscheinungen der Bibliotheca Teubneriana parallel zur gedruckten Ausgabe auch als eBook angeboten. Die alteren Bande werden sukzessive ebenfalls als eBook bereitgestellt. Falls Sie einen vergriffenen Titel bestellen moechten, der noch nicht als Print-on-Demand angeboten wird, schreiben Sie uns an: [email protected] Samtliche in der Bibliotheca Teubneriana erschienenen Editionen lateinischer Texte sind in der Datenbank BTL Online elektronisch verfugbar.

The English Civil War Through the Restoration in Fiction - An Annotated Bibliography, 1625-1999 (Hardcover, Annotated edition):... The English Civil War Through the Restoration in Fiction - An Annotated Bibliography, 1625-1999 (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
Roxane Murph
R2,485 Discovery Miles 24 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A period of tumultuous political and religious strife, the English Civil War has inspired writers for the past four centuries. Their works vary widely in quality from the hurriedly written political verse of the 17th century and the superficial or sentimental novels of the 19th and 20th centuries to the brilliantly conceived novels of Daniel Defoe, Nigel Tranter, and Iain Pears. All provide a perspective on a turbulent era. A useful tool for historians and researchers, this bibliography provides access to verse, novels, short stories, and plays about the Civil War era written between 1625 and 1999.

The book opens with an introductory survey of the political and religious conflicts that led to the war and the execution of Charles I and that continued through the Interregnum, Cromwell's Protectorate, and the Restoration of Charles II. It then provides a discussion of some of the fiction written about the events and personalities of the period. With over 900 annotated entries, the bibliography itself includes virtually all of the fiction written about the period.

Studies in the Age of Chaucer - Volume 20 (Hardcover, Annotated Ed): Lisa J. Kiser Studies in the Age of Chaucer - Volume 20 (Hardcover, Annotated Ed)
Lisa J. Kiser
R1,703 Discovery Miles 17 030 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Studies in the Age of Chaucer is the annual yearbook of the New Chaucer Society, publishing articles on the writing of Chaucer and his contemporaries, their antecedents and successors, and their intellectual and social contexts. More generally, articles explore the culture and writing of later medieval Britain (1200-1500). Each SAC volume also includes an annotated bibliography and reviews of Chaucer-related publications.

Palimpsests and the Literary Imagination of Medieval England - Collected Essays (Hardcover): Tatjana Silec, Raeleen... Palimpsests and the Literary Imagination of Medieval England - Collected Essays (Hardcover)
Tatjana Silec, Raeleen Chai-Elsholz, Leo Carruthers 1
R1,528 Discovery Miles 15 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Witnesses to the disappearance of a text, palimpsest manuscripts bear the marks of their own genesis, with their original inscription rubbed out and written over on the same parchment.

This collection explores analogies of erasure and rewriting observed in editorial and literary practices underlying the production of texts from medieval England.

Raeleen Chai- Elsholz, Introduction: Palimpsests and ‘Palimpsestuous’ Reinscriptions, pp. 1-17. Abstract: This introduction analyzes the term “palimpsest” in relation to the various types of artifacts of cultural production discussed in the volume’s essays.

Adrian Papahagi, An Anglo- Saxon Palimpsest from Fleury: Orléans, Bibliothèque Municipale MS 342 (290), pp. 21-33. Abstract: This essay examines an Orléans manuscript (s. x/xi) against the background of exchanges between Fleury and Anglo- Saxon abbeys, and suggests it was palimpsested in Fleury.

Peter A. Stokes, Recovering Anglo-Saxon Erasures: Some Questions, Tools, and Techniques, pp. 35-60. Abstract: This essay provides practical instruction in enhancing digital images of damaged or palimpsested manuscripts, encompassing basic principles, hands-on techniques, and the ethics of enhancement.

Jane Roberts, Some Psalter Glosses in Their Immediate Context, pp. 61-79. Abstract: This essay looks closely at three Anglo-Saxon glossed psalters and how the palimpsestic layers of gloss and text, language and layout, speak to the meditative reader.

Paul E. Szarmach, The Palimpsest and Old English Homiletic Composition, pp. 81-94. Abstract: This essay proposes that the palimpsest offers a way to understand the composition techniques of Old English homilists, notably Ælfric, Wulfstan, and the anonymous tradition.

Sharon M. Rowley, 'Ic Beda’ . . . ‘Cwæð Beda’: Reinscribing Bede in the Old English Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum, pp. 95-113. Abstract: This essay examines literal and metaphorical palimpsests in the OEHE, emphasizing the strategies through which Bede’s translators represent Bede’s voice in direct and indirect discourse.

Florence Bourgne, Vernacular Engravings in Late Medieval England, pp. 115-136. Abstract: Anxious late-medieval vernacular authors saturated their texts with references to engraved writings. These often refer to inscriptions on wax tablets, a fragile albeit professional medium.

Leo Carruthers, Rewriting Genres: Beowulf as Epic Romance, pp. 139-155. Abstract: Investigation of its historical matter in parallel with its generic classifications shows Beowulf to be a literary palimpsest anticipating the historical novel.

Gila Aloni, Palimpsestic Philomela: Reinscription in Chaucer’s “Legend of Philomela", pp. 157-173. Abstract: In rewriting Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Book VI, Chaucer partially erases his source to make room for his own “Legend of Philomela.”

Claire Vial, The Middle English Breton Lays and the Mists of Origin, pp. 175-191. Abstract: Awareness of generic ancestry offers evidence of the palimpsestuous nature of the “true” Middle English Breton lays.

Colette Stévanovitch, Enquiries into the Textual History of the Seventeenth- Century Sir Lambewell (London, British Library, Additional 27897), pp. 193-204. Abstract: The mid- seventeenth-century romance Sir Lambewell incorporates accretions from various periods, which reflect the tastes of various audiences and coexist as in a palimpsest.

Jean- Marc Elsholz, Elucidations: Bringing to Light the Aesthetic Underwriting of the Matière de Bretagne in John Boorman’s Excalibur, pp. 205-226. Abstract: Boorman’s film Excalibur enacts medieval theories of light that form the underwriting of successive layers of the Arthurian romance tradition.

Heimskringla III. Magnus Olafsson to Magnus Erlingsson, Volume III (Paperback): Snorri Sturluson Heimskringla III. Magnus Olafsson to Magnus Erlingsson, Volume III (Paperback)
Snorri Sturluson; Translated by Alison Finlay, Anthony Faulkes
R383 Discovery Miles 3 830 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Boccaccio the Philosopher - An Epistemology of the Decameron (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Filippo Andrei Boccaccio the Philosopher - An Epistemology of the Decameron (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Filippo Andrei
R3,007 Discovery Miles 30 070 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book explores the tangled relationship between literary production and epistemological foundation as exemplified in one of the masterpieces of Italian literature. Filippo Andrei argues that Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron has a significant though concealed engagement with philosophy, and that the philosophical implications of its narratives can be understood through an epistemological approach to the text. He analyzes the influence of Dante, Petrarch, Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle, and other classical and medieval thinkers on Boccaccio's attitudes towards ethics and knowledge-seeking. Beyond providing an epistemological reading of the Decameron, this book also evaluates how a theoretical reflection on the nature of rhetoric and poetic imagination can ultimately elicit a theory of knowledge.

Roman Love Elegy and the Eros of Empire (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023): Phebe Lowell Bowditch Roman Love Elegy and the Eros of Empire (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
Phebe Lowell Bowditch
R3,611 Discovery Miles 36 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explores Roman love elegy from postcolonial perspectives, arguing that the tropes, conventions, and discourses of the Augustan genre serve to reinforce the imperial identity of its elite, metropolitan audience. Love elegy presents the phenomena and discourses of Roman imperialism-in terms of visual spectacle (the military triumph), literary genre (epic in relation to elegy), material culture (art and luxury goods), and geographic space-as intersecting with ancient norms of gender and sexuality in a way that reinforces Rome's dominance in the Mediterranean. The introductory chapter lays out the postcolonial frame, drawing from the work of Edward Said among other theorists, and situates love elegy in relation to Roman Hellenism and the varied Roman responses to Greece and its cultural influences. Four of the six subsequent chapters focus on the rhetorical ambivalence that characterizes love elegy's treatment of Greek influence: the representation of the domina or mistress as simultaneously a figure for 'captive Greece' and a trope for Roman imperialism; the motif of the elegiac triumph, with varying figures playing the triumphator, as suggestive of Greco-Roman cultural rivalry; Rome's competing visions of an Attic and an Asiatic Hellenism. The second and the final chapter focus on the figures of Osiris and Isis, respectively, as emblematic of Rome's colonialist and ambivalent representation of Egypt, with the conclusion offering a deconstructive reading of elegy's rhetoric of orientalism.

The Pardoner's Tale: York Notes Advanced everything you need to catch up, study and prepare for and 2023 and 2024 exams... The Pardoner's Tale: York Notes Advanced everything you need to catch up, study and prepare for and 2023 and 2024 exams and assessments (Paperback)
Geoffrey Chaucer 2
R244 R223 Discovery Miles 2 230 Save R21 (9%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Packed full of analysis and interpretation, historical background, discussions and commentaries, York Notes will help you get right to the heart of the text you're studying, whether it's poetry, a play or a novel. You'll learn all about the historical context of the piece; find detailed discussions of key passages and characters; learn interesting facts about the text; and discover structures, patterns and themes that you may never have known existed. In the Advanced Notes, specific sections on critical thinking, and advice on how to read critically yourself, enable you to engage with the text in new and different ways. Full glossaries, self-test questions and suggested reading lists will help you fully prepare for your exam, while internet links and references to film, TV, theatre and the arts combine to fully immerse you in your chosen text. York Notes offer an exciting and accessible key to your text, enabling you to develop your ideas and transform your studies!

Ovid Epistulae ex Ponto, Book I (Hardcover): Jan Felix Gaertner Ovid Epistulae ex Ponto, Book I (Hardcover)
Jan Felix Gaertner
R8,268 Discovery Miles 82 680 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The present edition of the first book of the Epistulae ex Ponto gives a revised text with a new translation, an extended introduction, and the first full-scale commentary of this work in English. The commentary pays particular attention to stylistic questions and examines how the Epistulae exPonto differs from the poet's remaining oeuvre. It demonstrates that Ovid generally adopts a more colloquial and prosaic style (as suits the epistolary form) and that he carefully adjusts the stylistic register to the respective addressees of the letters.

Sacred and Secular in Medieval and Early Modern Cultures - New Essays (Hardcover, 2006 ed.): L. Besserman Sacred and Secular in Medieval and Early Modern Cultures - New Essays (Hardcover, 2006 ed.)
L. Besserman
R1,522 Discovery Miles 15 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book illuminates the pervasive interplay of 'sacred' and 'secular' phenomena in the literature, history, politics, and religion of the Middle Ages and Early Modern periods. Following an introduction that examines methodological questions in the study of the sacred and the secular, the other essays treat (among other topics): Old English poetry, troubadour lyrics, twelfth-century romance, the Gregorian Reform, Middle English lyrics and the work of the Pearl-poet, Luther, and Shakespeare. The essays gathered here constitute a new way of applying a classic dichotomy to major cultural phenomena of the pre-modern era.

Aristophanis Byzantii Fragmenta (Hardcover, Reprint 2010): Aristophanes of Byzantium Aristophanis Byzantii Fragmenta (Hardcover, Reprint 2010)
Aristophanes of Byzantium; Volume editing by William J. Slater
R3,560 Discovery Miles 35 600 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Body Unbound - Literary Approaches to the Classical Corpus (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Katherine Lu Hsu, David Schur, Brian... The Body Unbound - Literary Approaches to the Classical Corpus (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Katherine Lu Hsu, David Schur, Brian P. Sowers
R4,236 Discovery Miles 42 360 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book explores the body's physical limits and the ways in which the confines of the body are delineated, transgressed, or controlled in literary and philosophical texts. Drawing on classics, philosophy, religious studies, medieval studies, and critical theory and examining material ranging from Homer to Game of Thrones, this volume facilitates an interdisciplinary investigation into how the boundaries of the body define the human form in language. This volume's essays suggest that the body's meaning is perhaps never more evident than in the violation of its wholeness. The boundaries of the body are areas of transition between states and are therefore vulnerable. As individuals find themselves isolated from their world and one another, their bodies regularly allow for physical interactions, incur transgressions and violations, and undergo profound transformations. Thus sympathy, sexuality, disease, and violence are among the main themes of the volume, which, ultimately, reexamines the place of the body in our understanding of what it means to be human.

Dante and the Romantics (Hardcover, 2004 ed.): A. Braida Dante and the Romantics (Hardcover, 2004 ed.)
A. Braida
R1,524 Discovery Miles 15 240 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The British Romantic poets were among the first to realize the centrality of the "Divine Comedy" for the evolution of the European epic. This study explores the significance of Dante for Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, and William Blake. What was their idea of Dante? Why did they feel the need to approach his Christian epic on the afterlife? This study aims to answer these questions by focusing on the three poets' preoccupation with form and language.

Chaucer's Feminine Subjects - Figures of Desire in The Canterbury Tales (Hardcover): J. Pitcher Chaucer's Feminine Subjects - Figures of Desire in The Canterbury Tales (Hardcover)
J. Pitcher
R1,511 Discovery Miles 15 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This study shows how contemporary theory can serve to clarify structures of identity and economies of desire in medieval texts. Bringing the resources of psychoanalytic and poststructuralist theory to bear on Chaucer's tales about women, this book addresses those registers of the Canterbury project that remain major concerns for recent feminist theory: the specificity of feminine desire, the cultural articulation of gender, the logic of sacrifice as a cultural ideal, the structure of misogyny and domestic violence. This book maps out the ways in which Chaucer's rhetoric is not merely an element of style or an instrument of persuasion but the very matrix for the representation of de-centered subjectivity.

Mythographi Graeci, Vol. I CB (Book, Reprint of the 2nd 1926 ed.): Apollodorus Mythographi Graeci, Vol. I CB (Book, Reprint of the 2nd 1926 ed.)
Apollodorus
R3,636 Discovery Miles 36 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Die Bibliotheca Teubneriana, gegrundet 1849, ist die weltweit alteste, traditionsreichste und umfangreichste Editionsreihe griechischer und lateinischer Literatur von der Antike bis zur Neuzeit. Pro Jahr erscheinen 4-5 neue Editionen. Samtliche Ausgaben werden durch eine lateinische oder englische Praefatio erganzt. Die wissenschaftliche Betreuung der Reihe obliegt einem Team anerkannter Philologen: Gian Biagio Conte (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa) Marcus Deufert (Universitat Leipzig) James Diggle (University of Cambridge) Donald J. Mastronarde (University of California, Berkeley) Franco Montanari (Universita di Genova) Heinz-Gunther Nesselrath (Georg-August-Universitat Goettingen) Oliver Primavesi (Ludwig-Maximilians Universitat Munchen) Michael D. Reeve (University of Cambridge) Richard J. Tarrant (Harvard University) Vergriffene Titel werden als Print-on-Demand-Nachdrucke wieder verfugbar gemacht. Zudem werden alle Neuerscheinungen der Bibliotheca Teubneriana parallel zur gedruckten Ausgabe auch als eBook angeboten. Die alteren Bande werden sukzessive ebenfalls als eBook bereitgestellt. Falls Sie einen vergriffenen Titel bestellen moechten, der noch nicht als Print-on-Demand angeboten wird, schreiben Sie uns an: [email protected] Samtliche in der Bibliotheca Teubneriana erschienenen Editionen lateinischer Texte sind in der Datenbank BTL Online elektronisch verfugbar.

Codierungen von Emotionen im Mittelalter / Emotions and Sensibilities in the Middle Ages (Hardcover, Reprint 2012): C.Stephen... Codierungen von Emotionen im Mittelalter / Emotions and Sensibilities in the Middle Ages (Hardcover, Reprint 2012)
C.Stephen Jaeger, Ingrid Kasten
R3,496 Discovery Miles 34 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Historical research into emotionality is at present generally enjoying an heightened level of interest. This bilingual volume documents the proceedings of an international conference, discussing current paradigms and perspectives in historical literary research into emotions and heightening awareness of the mediality of cultures of emotion in historical change. The discussion of methodological questions opens up avenues for interdisciplinary research.

Papacy and Law in the Gregorian Revolution - The Canonistic Work of Anselm of Lucca (Hardcover): Kathleen G. Cushing Papacy and Law in the Gregorian Revolution - The Canonistic Work of Anselm of Lucca (Hardcover)
Kathleen G. Cushing
R5,325 Discovery Miles 53 250 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This work explores the role of canon law in the ecclesiastical reform movement of the eleventh century, commonly known as the Gregorian Reform. Focusing on the Collectio canonum of Bishop Anselm of Lucca, it explores how the reformers came to value and employ law as as means of achieving desired ends in a time of social upheaval and revolution.

Language in Vergil's Eclogues (Hardcover, Reprint 2013): Michael Lipka Language in Vergil's Eclogues (Hardcover, Reprint 2013)
Michael Lipka
R4,474 Discovery Miles 44 740 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This study focuses on the character, literary precursors and effects of the language in Virgil's Eclogues. It is divided into four major sections: word formation, linguistic models, style level, personal names. Each section examines the influence of earlier poets (Theocritus, Callimachus, Ennius, Lucretius, Catullus et al.), the reception by later poets of the Augustan Age (Propertius, Tibullus, Ovid) and in particular the relationship of the Eclogues to Vergil's later work (Georgica, Aeneis).

Medieval Romance - Critical Heritage Set (Hardcover): B.C. Southam Medieval Romance - Critical Heritage Set (Hardcover)
B.C. Southam
R12,125 Discovery Miles 121 250 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Comprises of individual volumes on: Dante, Geoffrey Chaucer (2 volumes), Sir Thomas Malory, John Skelton and Edmund Spenser. The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The carefully selected sources range from landmark essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and little published documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation. Each volume contains an introduction to the writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects. The Collected Critical Heritage will be available as a set of 68 volumes and the series will also be available in mini sets selected by period (in slipcase boxes) and as individual volumes. Publication: October 1995.

Is Shakespeare Dead? - From My Autobiography (Hardcover): Mark Twain Is Shakespeare Dead? - From My Autobiography (Hardcover)
Mark Twain
R736 Discovery Miles 7 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Readers and Reading Culture in the High Roman Empire - A Study of Elite Communities (Hardcover): William A. Johnson Readers and Reading Culture in the High Roman Empire - A Study of Elite Communities (Hardcover)
William A. Johnson
R2,898 Discovery Miles 28 980 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In Readers and Reading Culture in the High Roman Empire, William Johnson examines the system and culture of reading among the elite in second-century Rome. The investigation proceeds in case-study fashion using the principal surviving witnesses, beginning with the communities of Pliny and Tacitus (with a look at Pliny's teacher, Quintilian) from the time of the emperor Trajan. Johnson then moves on to explore elite reading during the era of the Antonines, including the medical community around Galen, the philological community around Gellius and Fronto (with a look at the curious reading habits of Fronto's pupil Marcus Aurelius), and the intellectual communities lampooned by the satirist Lucian. Along the way, evidence from the papyri is deployed to help to understand better and more concretely both the mechanics of reading, and the social interactions that surrounded the ancient book. The result is a rich cultural history of individual reading communities that differentiate themselves in interesting ways even while in aggregate showing a coherent reading culture with fascinating similarities and contrasts to the reading culture of today.

History & Literature Of Christ (Hardcover, New Ed): Pierre de Labriolle History & Literature Of Christ (Hardcover, New Ed)
Pierre de Labriolle
R5,580 Discovery Miles 55 800 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This study of Early Christian literature and its influence on European thought and culture brings much to bear on a subject often overshadowed by the study of ancient Greek influences. The book, which begins with an excellent introduction by the author, covers Christian literature from its earliest manifestations in the first century to the Middle Ages. The author describes the lives of numerous writers (including Tertullian, St. Isidore of Seville and Arnobius) as well as their works and the ideas that shaped them, allowing readers to appreciate the rise of Latin literature and the historical circumstances that surrounded it.

Cicero, Classicism, and Popular Culture (Hardcover): Marshall Fishwick Cicero, Classicism, and Popular Culture (Hardcover)
Marshall Fishwick
R4,486 Discovery Miles 44 860 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Learn why Cicero is considered one of the most important individuals in all of Western culture! Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) was a poet, philosopher, writer, scholar, barrister, statesman, patriot, and the linguist who helped make Latin into a universal language. His many influences in rhetoric, politics, literature, and ideas are seen throughout Western civilization. Cicero, Classicism, and Popular Culture explores the fascinating man behind the eloquence and his monumental effect on language, morality, and popularity of Western culture. One of the leading authorities on popular culture, Dr. Marshall Fishwick discusses the multifaceted man who may be, besides Jesus, the central figure in all of Western civilization. The author recounts his own personal quest of traveling the land and ancient cities of Italy, gleaning insights from people he met along the way who have knowledge about Cicero's life and times. However, Cicero, Classicism, and Popular Culture is more than a simple search for the man and his accomplishments, a man whose mere words changed the way people think. This book shows in each of us the roots of our own ideas, beliefs, and culture. Cicero, Classicism, and Popular Culture discusses: Cicero's rise to acclaim his affect on the language of popular culture common traits Cicero shared with Thomas Jefferson rhetoric, the art of oratory community two pivotal essays on friendship and old age vision of his reputation the search for peace Marshall McLuhan, Ciceronian Cicero's Rome Cicero's ancestral home of Arpinum Julius Caesar, politics, and the influences of Cicero the Roman republic and its downfall America as the new Rome much more! Cicero, Classicism, and Popular Culture is a startling, entertaining examination of the man who made Western culture what it is today. The book is insightful reading for educators, students, or anyone interested in one of the major forces in popular culture.

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