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Latin Translation in the Renaissance - The Theory and Practice of Leonardo Bruni, Giannozzo Manetti and Desiderius Erasmus... Latin Translation in the Renaissance - The Theory and Practice of Leonardo Bruni, Giannozzo Manetti and Desiderius Erasmus (Hardcover, New)
Paul Botley
R2,815 Discovery Miles 28 150 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Latin translations of Greek works have received much less attention than vernacular translations of classical works. This book examines the work of three Latin translators of the Renaissance. The versions of Aristotle made by Leonardo Bruni (1370-1444) were among the most controversial translations of the fifteenth century and he defended his methods in the first modern treatise on translation, De interpretatione recta. Giannozzo Manetti (1396-1459) produced versions of Aristotle and the Bible and he too ultimately felt obliged to publish his own defence of the translator's art, Apologeticus. Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1469-1536) chose to defend his own translation of the New Testament, one of the most controversial translations ever printed, with a substantial and expanding volume of annotations. This book attempts to provide a broad perspective on the development of Latin writing about translation by drawing together the ideas of these three very different translators.

Studies in the Age of Chaucer - Volume 15 (Hardcover): Lisa J. Kiser Studies in the Age of Chaucer - Volume 15 (Hardcover)
Lisa J. Kiser
R1,705 Discovery Miles 17 050 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.

Classical Myths and Legends in the Middle Ages and Renaissance - A Dictionary of Allegorical Meanings (Hardcover): H. David... Classical Myths and Legends in the Middle Ages and Renaissance - A Dictionary of Allegorical Meanings (Hardcover)
H. David Brumble
R5,565 Discovery Miles 55 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Explains the allegorical significance attached to Roman and Greek myths by Medieval and Renaissance authors. Included in the text are several hundred alphabetically-arranged entries for the gods, goddesses, heroes, heroines and places of classical myth and legend. Each entry includes an account of the myth, with reference to the Greek and Latin sources. The entry discusses how Medieval and Renaissance commentators interpreted the myth, and how poets, dramatists, and artists employed it in their art.

New Medieval Literatures 21 (Hardcover): Wendy Scase, Laura Ashe, Philip Knox, Kellie Robertson New Medieval Literatures 21 (Hardcover)
Wendy Scase, Laura Ashe, Philip Knox, Kellie Robertson; Contributions by Genevieve Young, …
R3,199 R2,480 Discovery Miles 24 800 Save R719 (22%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Cutting-edge and fresh new outlooks on medieval literature, emphasising the vibrancy of the field. New Medieval Literatures is an annual of work on medieval textual cultures, aiming to engage with intellectual and cultural pluralism in the Middle Ages and now. Its scope is inclusive of work across the theoretical, archival, philological, and historicist methodologies associated with medieval literary studies, and embraces the range of European cultures, capaciously defined. Essays in this volume engage with a wide range of subject matter, from as far back as Livy (d.c.AD 12/18) to Erwin Panofsky (d. 1968). They demonstrate that medieval textual cultures is a radically negotiable category and that medieval understandings of the past were equally diverse and unstable.They reflect on relationships between history, texts, and truth from a range of perspectives, from Foucault to "truthiness", a twenty-first-century media coinage. Materiality and the technical crafts with which humans engage withthe natural world are recurrent themes, opening up new insights on mysticism, knighthood, and manuscript production and reception. Analysis of manuscript illuminations offers new understandings of identity and diversity, while a survey of every thirteenth-century manuscript that contains English currently in Oxford libraries yields a challenging new history of script. Particular texts discussed include Chretien de Troyes's Conte du Graal, Richard Rolle's Incendium amoris and Melos amoris, and the Middle English verse romances Lybeaus Desconus, The Erle of Tolous, Amis and Amiloun, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

Writing Plague - Language and Violence from the Black Death to COVID-19 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022): Alfred Thomas Writing Plague - Language and Violence from the Black Death to COVID-19 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Alfred Thomas
R1,629 Discovery Miles 16 290 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Writing Plague: Language and Violence from the Black Death to COVID-19 brings a holistic and comparative perspective to "plague writing" from the later Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. It argues that while the human "hardware" has changed enormously between the medieval past and the present (urbanization, technology, mass warfare, and advances in medical science), the human "software" (emotional and psychological reactions to the shock of pandemic) has remained remarkably similar across time. Through close readings of works by medieval writers like Guillaume de Machaut, Giovanni Boccaccio, and Geoffrey Chaucer in the fourteenth century, select plays by Shakespeare, and modern "plague" fiction and film, Alfred Thomas convincingly demonstrates psychological continuities between the Black Death and COVID-19. In showing how in times of plague human beings repress their fears and fantasies and displace them onto the threatening "other," Thomas highlights the danger of scapegoating vulnerable minority groups such as Asian Americans and Jews in today's America. This wide-ranging study will thus be of interest not only to medievalists but also to students of modernity as well as the general reader.

Tragic Seneca - An essay in the theatrical tradition (Hardcover): A.J. Boyle Tragic Seneca - An essay in the theatrical tradition (Hardcover)
A.J. Boyle
R4,485 Discovery Miles 44 850 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This work undertakes a re-evaluation of Seneca's plays, their relationship to Roman imperial culture and their instrumental role in the evolution of the European theatrical tradition. Following an introduction on the history of the Roman theatre, the book provides dramatic and cultural critique of the whole of Seneca's corpus, analyzing the declamatory form of the plays, their rhetoric, interiority, stagecraft and spectacle, dramatic, ideological and moral structure and their overt theatricality. Each of Seneca's plays is examined in detail, locating the force of Senecan drama not only in the moral complexity of the texts and their representations of power, violence, history, suffering and the self, but the semiotic interplay of text, tradition and culture. The later chapters focus on Seneca's influence on Italian, English and French drama of the Renaissance. A.J. Boyle argues that tragedians such as Cinthio, Kyd, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Webster, Corneille, and Racine owe a debt to Seneca that goes beyond allusion, dramatic form and the treatment of tyranny and revenge to the development of the tragic sensibility and the metatheatrical mind.

Sonnets and the English Woman Writer, 1560-1621 - The Politics of Absence (Hardcover, 2005 ed.): R. Smith Sonnets and the English Woman Writer, 1560-1621 - The Politics of Absence (Hardcover, 2005 ed.)
R. Smith
R1,503 Discovery Miles 15 030 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This study explores why women in the English Renaissance wrote so few sonnet sequences, in comparison with the traditions of Continental women writers and of English male authors. In this focus on a single genre, Rosalind Smith examines the relationship between gender and genre in the early modern period, and the critical assumptions currently underpinning questions of feminine agency within genre.

Oxford Readings in Ovid (Hardcover): Peter E. Knox Oxford Readings in Ovid (Hardcover)
Peter E. Knox
R6,221 Discovery Miles 62 210 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

No other ancient poet has had such a hold on the imagination of readers as Ovid. Through the centuries, artists, writers, and poets have found in his work inspiration for new creative endeavors. This anthology of twenty of the most influential papers published in the last thirty years represents the broad range of critical and scholarly approaches to Ovid's work. The entire range of his poetry, from the Amores to the Epistles from the Black Sea, is discussed by some of the leading scholars of Latin poetry, employing, critical methods ranging from philology to contemporary literary theory. In an introductory essay, Peter Knox surveys Ovidian scholarship over this period and locates the assembled papers within recent critical trends. Taken together, the articles in this collection offer the interested reader, whether experienced scholar or novice, an entree into the current critical discourse on Ovid, who is at once one of the most accessible authors of classical antiquity and one of the least understood.

New Medieval Literatures 16 (Hardcover): Laura Ashe, David Lawton, Wendy Scase New Medieval Literatures 16 (Hardcover)
Laura Ashe, David Lawton, Wendy Scase; Contributions by Alexis Kellner Becker, Emily Dolmans, …
R1,764 R1,374 Discovery Miles 13 740 Save R390 (22%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

An invigorating annual for those who are interested in medieval textual cultures and open to ways in which diverse post-modern methodologies may be applied to them. Alcuin Blamires, Review of English Studies New Medieval Literatures - now published by Boydell and Brewer - is an annual of work on medieval textual cultures, aiming to engage with intellectual and cultural pluralism in the Middle Ages and now. Its scope is inclusive of work across the theoretical, archival, philological, and historicist methodologies associated with medieval literary studies, and embraces both the British Isles and Europe. Topics in this volume include the political ecology of Havelok the Dane: Thomas Hoccleve and the making of "Chaucer"; and Britain and the Welsh Marches in Fouke le Fitz Waryn. Contributors: Alexis Kellner Becker, Emily Dolmans, Marcel Elias, PhilipKnox, Sebastian Langdell, Jonathan Morton, Marco Nievergelt, George Younge.

Decapitation in Sources on Alexander the Great (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023): Marc Mendoza Decapitation in Sources on Alexander the Great (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
Marc Mendoza
R1,306 Discovery Miles 13 060 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book explores cases of decapitation found in sources on the reign of Alexander the Great. Despite the enormous literature on the career of Alexander the Great, this is the first study on the characterisation of violent deaths during his hectic reign. This historiographical omission has involved the tacit and blind acceptance of the details found in the ancient sources. Therefore, this book seeks to illustrate how cultural expectations, literary models, and ideological taboos shaped these accounts and argues for a close and critical reading of the sources. Given the different cultural considerations surrounding decapitation in Greek and Roman cultures, this book illustrates how those biases could have differently shaped certain episodes depending on the ultimate writer. This book, therefore, can be especially interesting for scholars focused on the career of Alexander the Great, but also valuable for other Classicists, philologists, and even for anthropologists because it represents a good case of study of cultural symbolism of violent death, semantics of power, imperial domination and the confrontation between opposite cultural appreciations of a practice.

The Erotics of Consolation - Desire and Distance in the Late Middle Ages (Hardcover, First): C. Leglu, S Milner The Erotics of Consolation - Desire and Distance in the Late Middle Ages (Hardcover, First)
C. Leglu, S Milner
R1,520 Discovery Miles 15 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

What is consolation and why is mourning so often bound up with erotic desire? This collection of essays explores consolation and mourning in the varied, sometimes provocative, readings of Boethius and of Stoic consolation by French, English, Italian and German authors, including Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Machaut, Chaucer, Wyatt and Queen Elizabeth I. The contributors consider how they remodeled the discourse of consolation through parody and satire, interrogating the limits of a consolatory rhetoric.

Phoenissae CB (Book, Reprint 2012 ed.): Euripides Phoenissae CB (Book, Reprint 2012 ed.)
Euripides
R3,467 Discovery Miles 34 670 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 Discovery of the Mind - The Greek Origins of European Thought (Hardcover): Bruno Snell The Discovery of the Mind - The Greek Origins of European Thought (Hardcover)
Bruno Snell
R759 Discovery Miles 7 590 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Sophocles - The Theban Plays (Hardcover): Don Taylor Sophocles - The Theban Plays (Hardcover)
Don Taylor; Edited by R.D. Dawe
R2,304 Discovery Miles 23 040 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Linked by their common setting in Thebes, Antigone,Oedipus the King, and Oedipus at Colonus stand at the fountainhead of world drama. This volume presents a new, and accurate yet poetic and playable translation by playwright Don Taylor, who has also directed plays for a BBC-TV production.

Sir Thomas Malory - The Critical Heritage (Hardcover, New edition): Marylyn Parins Sir Thomas Malory - The Critical Heritage (Hardcover, New edition)
Marylyn Parins
R8,239 Discovery Miles 82 390 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume in the series gathers together a body of critical sources on the literary figure of Thomas Malory. 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 selected sources range from important essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and 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.

John Skelton - The Critical Heritage (Hardcover, New edition): Anthony Edwards John Skelton - The Critical Heritage (Hardcover, New edition)
Anthony Edwards
R2,619 Discovery Miles 26 190 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

These volumes gather together a body of critical sources on the 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 selected sources range from important essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and 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.

Women in Antiquity: New Assessments (Paperback): Richard Hawley, Barbara Levick Women in Antiquity: New Assessments (Paperback)
Richard Hawley, Barbara Levick
R1,593 Discovery Miles 15 930 Ships in 12 - 19 working days


The study of gender in classical antiquity has undergone rapid and wide-ranging development in the past two decades. This collection of new assessments has been written by some of the most influential experts in this field from all over the world. The contributors reassess the role of women in diverse contexts and areas, such as archaic and classical Greek literature and cult, Roman imperial politics, ancient medicine and early Christianity. Some offer original interpretations of topics which have been widely discussed over the last twenty years; others highlight new areas of research.

Women in Antiquity: New Assessments reflects and expands on existing scholarly debates on the status and representation of women in the ancient world. It focuses on methodology, and suggests areas for research and improvement. It is invaluable and engaging reading for all students and teachers of ancient history.

Geoffrey Chaucer - The Critical Heritage Volume 1 1385-1837 (Hardcover, New edition): Derek Brewer Geoffrey Chaucer - The Critical Heritage Volume 1 1385-1837 (Hardcover, New edition)
Derek Brewer
R9,131 Discovery Miles 91 310 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This series gathers together a 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 selected sources range from important essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and 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.

Geoffrey Chaucer - The Critical Heritage Volume 2 1837-1933 (Hardcover, New edition): Derek Brewer Geoffrey Chaucer - The Critical Heritage Volume 2 1837-1933 (Hardcover, New edition)
Derek Brewer
R9,898 Discovery Miles 98 980 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This series gathers together a 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 selected sources range from important essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and 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 Apocryphal Adam and Eve in Medieval Europe - Vernacular Translations and Adaptations of the Vita Adae et Evae (Hardcover):... The Apocryphal Adam and Eve in Medieval Europe - Vernacular Translations and Adaptations of the Vita Adae et Evae (Hardcover)
Brian Murdoch
R3,835 Discovery Miles 38 350 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

What happened to Adam and Eve after their expulsion from paradise?
Where the biblical narrative fell silent apocryphal writings took up this intriguing question, notably including the Early Christian Latin text, the Life of Adam and Eve. This account describes the (failed) attempt of the couple to return to paradise by fasting whilst immersed in a river, and explores how they coped with new experiences such as childbirth and death.
Brian Murdoch guides the reader through the many variant versions of the Life, demonstrating how it was also adapted into most western and some eastern European languages in the Middle Ages and beyond, constantly developing and changing along the way. The study considers this development of the apocryphal texts whilst presenting a fascinating insight into the flourishing medieval tradition of Adam and Eve. A tradition that the Reformation would largely curtail, stories from the Life were celebrated in European prose, verse and drama in many different languages from Irish to Russian.

Studies in the Age of Chaucer - Volume 14 (Hardcover): Lisa J. Kiser Studies in the Age of Chaucer - Volume 14 (Hardcover)
Lisa J. Kiser
R1,689 Discovery Miles 16 890 Ships in 10 - 15 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.

Nestor - Poetic Memory in Greek Epic (Hardcover): Keith Dickson Nestor - Poetic Memory in Greek Epic (Hardcover)
Keith Dickson
R2,893 Discovery Miles 28 930 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Greek Lyric Poetry from Alcman to Simonides (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition): Maurice Bowra Greek Lyric Poetry from Alcman to Simonides (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
Maurice Bowra
R6,790 Discovery Miles 67 900 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Oxford Scholarly Classics is a new series that makes available again great academic works from the archives of Oxford University Press. Reissued in uniform series design, the reissues will enable libraries, scholars, and students to gain fresh access to some of the finest scholarship of the last century.

Eros the Bittersweet - An Essay (Paperback): Anne Carson Eros the Bittersweet - An Essay (Paperback)
Anne Carson
R429 R400 Discovery Miles 4 000 Save R29 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Named one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time by the Modern Library Anne Carson's remarkable first book about the paradoxical nature of romantic love Since it was first published, Eros the Bittersweet, Anne Carson's lyrical meditation on love in ancient Greek literature and philosophy, has established itself as a favorite among an unusually broad audience, including classicists, essayists, poets, and general readers. Beginning with the poet Sappho's invention of the word "bittersweet" to describe Eros, Carson's original and beautifully written book is a wide-ranging reflection on the conflicted nature of romantic love, which is both "miserable" and "one of the greatest pleasures we have."

Outlawry in Medieval Literature (Hardcover): T. Jones Outlawry in Medieval Literature (Hardcover)
T. Jones
R2,869 Discovery Miles 28 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Drawing on new historicist principles, this book examines literary and historical narratives, legal statutes and records, sermons, lyric poetry, and biblical exegesis circulating in England between the 11th and 16th centuries. Jones theorizes the figure of the outlaw in Medieval England and uncovers the legal, ethical, and social assumptions that underlie the practice of outlawry"--

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