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Plutarch and the Historical Tradition (Hardcover): Philip A. Stadter Plutarch and the Historical Tradition (Hardcover)
Philip A. Stadter
R4,500 Discovery Miles 45 000 Ships in 12 - 19 working days


These essays, by experts in the field from five countries, examine Plutarch's interpretative and artistic reshaping of his historical sources in representative lives. Diverse essays treat literary elements such as the parallelism which renders a pair of lives a unit or the themes which unify the lives. Others consider the selecting, combining, simplifying, and enlarging employed in composition. The construction of a Plutarchian life, the essays demonstrate, required careful selection and creative reworking of the historical material available.

eBook available with sample pages: 020307663X

The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity - Volume 2: Medieval Meets Medievalism (Hardcover): Jan M... The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity - Volume 2: Medieval Meets Medievalism (Hardcover)
Jan M Ziolkowski
R1,691 Discovery Miles 16 910 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Portraying Cicero in Literature, Culture, and Politics - From Ancient to Modern Times (Hardcover): Francesca Romana Berno,... Portraying Cicero in Literature, Culture, and Politics - From Ancient to Modern Times (Hardcover)
Francesca Romana Berno, Giuseppe La Bua
R2,587 Discovery Miles 25 870 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Cicero has played a pivotal role in shaping Western culture. His public persona, his self-portrait as model of Roman prose, philosopher, and statesman, has exerted a durable and profound impact on the educational system and the formation of the ruling class over the centuries. Joining up with recent studies on the reception of Cicero, this volume approaches the figure of Cicero from a 'biographical', more than 'philological', perspective and considers the multiple ways by which different ages reacted to Cicero and created their 'Ciceros'. From Cicero's lifetime to our times, it focuses on how the image of Cicero was revisited and reworked by intellectuals and men of culture, who eulogized his outstanding oratorical and political virtues but, not rarely, questioned the role he had in Roman politics and society. An international group of scholars elaborates on the figure of Cicero, shedding fresh light on his reception in late antiquity, Humanism and Renaissance, Enlightenment and modern centuries. Historians, literary scholars and philosophers, as well as graduate students, will certainly profit from this volume, which contributes enormously to our understanding of the influence of Cicero on Western culture over the times.

Pacifism and English Literature - Minstrels of Peace (Hardcover, Thirtieth Anniv): R. White Pacifism and English Literature - Minstrels of Peace (Hardcover, Thirtieth Anniv)
R. White
R1,538 Discovery Miles 15 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This timely book traces ideas of pacifism through English literature, particularly poetry. Four wide-ranging chapters, drawing on both religious and secular texts, provide intellectual and historical contexts. There follows a chronological analysis of poetry which rejects war and celebrates peace, from the middle ages to the present day. The book provides inspiration for all readers who seriously believe that conflict and war do not solve problems, and for students it provides a new kind of thematic history of literature.

Consumerism and Prestige - The Materiality of Literature in the Modern Age (Hardcover): Anthony Enns, Bernhard Metz Consumerism and Prestige - The Materiality of Literature in the Modern Age (Hardcover)
Anthony Enns, Bernhard Metz
R2,346 Discovery Miles 23 460 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Contemporary Reception of Classical Rhetoric - Appropriations of Ancient Discourse (Paperback): Kathleen E. Welch The Contemporary Reception of Classical Rhetoric - Appropriations of Ancient Discourse (Paperback)
Kathleen E. Welch
R942 Discovery Miles 9 420 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Responding to the reassertion of orality in the twentieth century in the form of electronic media such as the telegraph, film, video, computers, and television, this unique volume traces the roots of classical rhetoric in the modern world. Welch begins by changing the current view of classical rhetoric by reinterpreting the existing texts into fluid language contexts -- a change that requires relinquishing the formulaic tradition, acquiring an awareness of translation issues, and constructing a classical rhetoric beginning with the Fifth Century B.C. She continues with a discussion of the adaptability of this material to new language situations, including political, cultural, and linguistic change, providing it with much of its power as well as its longevity. The book concludes that classical rhetoric can readily address any situation since it focuses not only on critical stances toward discourse that already exists, but also presents elaborate theories for the production of new discourse.

A Commentary on Pindar, Nemean Nine (Hardcover): Bruce Karl Braswell A Commentary on Pindar, Nemean Nine (Hardcover)
Bruce Karl Braswell
R6,805 Discovery Miles 68 050 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The series publishes important new editions of and commentaries on texts from Greco-Roman antiquity, especially annotated editions of texts surviving only in fragments. Due to its programmatically wide range the series provides an essential basis for the study of ancient literature.

Langland's Early Modern Identities (Hardcover, 2007 ed.): S. Kelen Langland's Early Modern Identities (Hardcover, 2007 ed.)
S. Kelen
R1,517 Discovery Miles 15 170 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Langland's Early Modern Identities uses the methodologies of cultural studies and the history of the book to show how editors and readers of the sixteenth through the early nineteenth century successively remade Piers Plowman and its author according to their own ideologies of the Middle Ages. Early modern responses to Piers Plowman demonstrate the ideologies by which the canon of English literature came into being. As a case study in the uses to which the early modern period put its narratives of the medieval past, this book should be of interest to both medievalists and early modernists, particularly those interested in the history of reading, publishing history, and the development of the literary canon.

Damascius' Problems and Solutions Regarding First Principles (Hardcover): Sara Ahbel-Rappe Damascius' Problems and Solutions Regarding First Principles (Hardcover)
Sara Ahbel-Rappe
R4,596 Discovery Miles 45 960 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Damascius was head of the Neoplatonist academy in Athens when the Emperor Justinian shut its doors forever in 529. His work, Problems and Solutions Concerning First Principles, is the last surviving independent philosophical treatise from the Late Academy. Its survey of Neoplatonist metaphysics, discussion of transcendence, and compendium of late antique theologies, make it unique among all extant works of late antique philosophy. It has never before been translated into English.
The Problems and Solutions exhibits a thorough?going critique of Proclean metaphysics, starting with the principle that all that exists proceeds from a single cause, proceeding to critique the Proclean triadic view of procession and reversion, and severely undermining the status of intellectual reversion in establishing being as the intelligible object. Damascius investigates the internal contradictions lurking within the theory of descent as a whole, showing that similarity of cause and effect is vitiated in the case of processions where one order (e.g. intellect) gives rise to an entirely different order (e.g. soul).
Neoplatonism as a speculative metaphysics posits the One as the exotic or extopic explanans for plurality, conceived as immediate, present to hand, and therefore requiring explanation. Damascius shifts the perspective of his metaphysics: he struggles to create a metaphysical discourse that accommodates, insofar as language is sufficient, the ultimate principle of reality. After all, how coherent is a metaphysical system that bases itself on the Ineffable as a first principle? Instead of creating an objective ontology, Damascius writes ever mindful of the limitations of dialectic, and of the pitfalls and snares inherent in the very structure of metaphysical discourse.

Image and Idea in Fifth Century Greece - Art and Literature After the Persian Wars (Hardcover, annotated edition): E.D. Francis Image and Idea in Fifth Century Greece - Art and Literature After the Persian Wars (Hardcover, annotated edition)
E.D. Francis
R3,865 Discovery Miles 38 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

E.D. Francis held that the ancient world was a unity in which concerns of the day were reflected in literary works and the language of pictorial and sculptural representations. His theories, which challenge contemporary views of Attic civilization and its artistic and literary productions, were presented as the prestigious Waynflete lectures at Oxford in 1983 and are published here for the first time. IMAGE AND IDEA IN FIFTH CENTURY GREECE constitutes the first book-length application of the controversial dating of fifth century Greek art pioneered by Francis and Michael Vickers. If Francis' arguments are correct, the pan-Hellenic construction of temples, erection of dedicatory statues, and the general joie de vivre to be found in the artifacts of the late archaic period can be seen as physical manifestations of Greek victory over the Persians in 480 and 479. Embodying some of the principal arguments for the importance of Persian influence on Greek art and civilization, IMAGE AND IDEA has important implications for our understanding of Attic culture.

The Parmenides of Plato (Hardcover): Plato The Parmenides of Plato (Hardcover)
Plato; William Wardlaw Waddell
R941 Discovery Miles 9 410 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Greek Personal Names - Their Value as Evidence (Hardcover): Simon Hornblower Greek Personal Names - Their Value as Evidence (Hardcover)
Simon Hornblower; Elaine Matthews
R2,048 Discovery Miles 20 480 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Within the great diversity of their world, the assertion of origin was essential to the ancient Greeks in defining their sense of who they were and how they distinguished themselves from neighbours and strangers. Each person's name might carry both identity and origin - 'I am' . . . inseparable from 'I come from' . . . Names have surfaced in many guises and locations - on coins and artefacts, embedded within inscriptions and manuscripts - carrying with them evidence even from prehistoric and preliterate times. The Lexicon of Greek Personal Names has already identified more than 200,000 individuals. The contributors to this volume draw on this resource to demonstrate the breadth of scholarly uses to which name evidence can be put.

Medieval Literacy and Textuality in Middle High German - Reading and Writing in Albrecht's Jungerer Titurel (Hardcover,... Medieval Literacy and Textuality in Middle High German - Reading and Writing in Albrecht's Jungerer Titurel (Hardcover, 2007 ed.)
A. Volfing
R1,527 Discovery Miles 15 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book addresses the topics of literacy and textuality in order to develop a new line of interpretation for a landmark of Middle High German literature. Albrecht's Jungerer Titurel is an intellectually ambitious narrative written ca. 1270 as a prequel and sequel to the more famous Arthurian texts by Wolfram von Eschenbach. Part One of the monograph considers the protagonists' obsessive engagement with the written word in all its manifestations. Part Two focuses complex construction of two competing narrative personae and on the author's aesthetic and moral justification of his literary undertaking.

The Contemporary Reception of Classical Rhetoric - Appropriations of Ancient Discourse (Hardcover): Kathleen E. Welch The Contemporary Reception of Classical Rhetoric - Appropriations of Ancient Discourse (Hardcover)
Kathleen E. Welch
R2,878 Discovery Miles 28 780 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Responding to the reassertion of orality in the twentieth century in the form of electronic media such as the telegraph, film, video, computers, and television, this unique volume traces the roots of classical rhetoric in the modern world. Welch begins by changing the current view of classical rhetoric by reinterpreting the existing texts into fluid language contexts -- a change that requires relinquishing the formulaic tradition, acquiring an awareness of translation issues, and constructing a classical rhetoric beginning with the Fifth Century B.C. She continues with a discussion of the adaptability of this material to new language situations, including political, cultural, and linguistic change, providing it with much of its power as well as its longevity. The book concludes that classical rhetoric can readily address any situation since it focuses not only on critical stances toward discourse that already exists, but also presents elaborate theories for the production of new discourse.

Redeeming Thucydides' Book VIII - Narrative Artistry in the Account of the Ionian War (Hardcover): Vasileios Liotsakis Redeeming Thucydides' Book VIII - Narrative Artistry in the Account of the Ionian War (Hardcover)
Vasileios Liotsakis
R4,215 Discovery Miles 42 150 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Since antiquity, Book 8 of Thucydides' History has been considered an unpolished draft which lacks revision. Even those who admit that the book has some elements of internal coherence believe that Thucydides, if death had not prevented him, would have improved many chapters or even the whole structure of the book. Consequently, while the first seven books of the History have been well examined through the last two centuries, the narrative plan of Book 8 remains an obscure subject, as we do not possess an extensive and detailed presentation of its whole narrative design. Vasileios Liotsakis tries to satisfy this central desideratum of the Thucydidean scholarship by offering a thorough description of the compositional plan, which, in his opinion, Thucydides put into effect in the last 109 chapters of his work. His study elaborates on the structural parts of the book, their details, and the various techniques through which Thucydides composed his narration in order to reach the internal cohesion of these chapters as well as their close connection to the rest of the History. Liotsakis offers us an original approach not only of Book 8 but also of the whole work, since his observations reshape our overall view of the History.

Chaucer's Prayers - Writing Christian and Pagan Devotion (Hardcover): Megan E. Murton Chaucer's Prayers - Writing Christian and Pagan Devotion (Hardcover)
Megan E. Murton
R2,627 R1,930 Discovery Miles 19 300 Save R697 (27%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A close examination of the prayers in Chaucer's poetry sheds significant new light on his poetic practice. In a culture as steeped in communal, scripted acts of prayer as Chaucer's England, a written prayer asks not only to be read, but to be inhabited: its "I" marks a space that readers are invited to occupy. This book examines the implications of accepting that invitation when reading Chaucer's poetry. Both in his often-overlooked pious writings and in his ambitious, innovative pagan narratives, the "I" of prayer provides readers with a subject-position thatcan be at once devotional and literary - a stance before a deity and a stance in relation to a poem. Chaucer uses this uniquely open, participatory "I" to implicate readers in his poetry and to guide their work of reading. In examining Christian and pagan prayers alongside each other, Chaucer's Prayers cuts across an assumed division between the "religious" and "secular" writings within Chaucer's corpus. Rather, it emphasizes continuities andapproaches prayer as part of Chaucer's broader experimentation with literary voice. It also places Chaucer in his devotional context and foregrounds how pious practices intersect with and shape his poetic practices. These insightschallenge a received view of Chaucer as an essentially secular poet and shed new light on his poetry's relationship to religion.

Ethnicity and Argument in Eusebius' Praeparatio Evangelica (Hardcover): Aaron P. Johnson Ethnicity and Argument in Eusebius' Praeparatio Evangelica (Hardcover)
Aaron P. Johnson
R4,363 Discovery Miles 43 630 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Eusebius' magisterial Praeparatio Evangelica (written sometime between AD 313 and 324) offers an apologetic defence of Christianity in the face of Greek accusations of irrationality and impiety. Though brimming with the quotations of other (often lost) Greek authors, the work is dominated by a clear and sustained argument. Against the tendency to see the Praeparatio as merely an anthology of other sources or a defence of monotheistic religion against paganism, Aaron P. Johnson seeks to appreciate Eusebius' contribution to the discourses of Christian identity by investigating the constructions of ethnic identity (especially Greek) at the heart of his work. Analysis of his ethnic argumentation' exhibits a method of defending Christianity by construing its opponents as historically rooted nations, whose place in the narrative of world history serves to undermine the legitimacy of their claims to ancient wisdom and piety.

Roman Triumphs and Early Modern English Culture (Hardcover): Anthony Miller Roman Triumphs and Early Modern English Culture (Hardcover)
Anthony Miller
R1,520 Discovery Miles 15 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is the first comprehensive study of the revival and appropriation of the Roman triumph from the 1580s to the 1650s. English versions of the triumph included ceremonial reenactments, poetic or pictorial representations, and stage performances. As well as many non-canonical writers, Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Marvell, and Milton all produced versions. The book includes an original survey of ancient literary models and the work of humanist antiquarians, and shows how all its texts are implicated in contemporary political conflicts and discourses.

Editing, Performance, Texts - New Practices in Medieval and Early Modern English Drama (Hardcover): Jacqueline Jenkins, Julie... Editing, Performance, Texts - New Practices in Medieval and Early Modern English Drama (Hardcover)
Jacqueline Jenkins, Julie Sanders
R1,957 Discovery Miles 19 570 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The essays in this volume challenge current 'givens' in medieval and early modern research around periodization and editorial practice. They showcase cutting-edge research practices and approaches in textual editing, and in manuscript and performance studies to produce new ways of reading and working for students and scholars.

Old English Medievalism - Reception and Recreation in the 20th and 21st Centuries (Hardcover): Rachel A. Fletcher, Thijs Porck,... Old English Medievalism - Reception and Recreation in the 20th and 21st Centuries (Hardcover)
Rachel A. Fletcher, Thijs Porck, Oliver M. Traxel; Contributions by Rachel A. Fletcher, Oliver M. Traxel, …
R3,786 R2,767 Discovery Miles 27 670 Save R1,019 (27%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

An exploration across thirteen essays by critics, translators and creative writers on the modern-day afterlives of Old English, delving into how it has been transplanted and recreated in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Old English language and literary style have long been a source of artistic inspiration and fascination, providing modern writers and scholars with the opportunity not only to explore the past but, in doing so, to find new perspectives on the present. This volume brings together thirteen essays on the modern-day afterlives of Old English, exploring how it has been transplanted and recreated in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries by translators, novelists, poets and teachers. These afterlives include the composition of neo-Old English, the evocation in a modern literary context of elements of early medieval English language and style, the fictional depiction of Old English-speaking worlds and world views, and the adaptation and recontextualisation of works of early medieval English literature. The sources covered include W. H. Auden, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Seamus Heaney, alongside more recent writers such as Christopher Patton, Hamish Clayton and Paul Kingsnorth, as well as other media, from museum displays to television. The volume also features the first-hand perspectives of those who are authors and translators themselves in the field of Old English medievalism.

Code-Switching - Unifying Contemporary and Historical Perspectives (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Mareike L. Keller Code-Switching - Unifying Contemporary and Historical Perspectives (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Mareike L. Keller
R1,644 Discovery Miles 16 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book systematically discusses the link between bilingual language production and its manifestation in historical documents, drawing together two branches of linguistics which have much in common but are traditionally dealt with separately. By combining the study of historical mixed texts with the principles of modern code-switching and bilingualism research, the author argues that the cognitive processes underpinning the human capacity to produce mixed utterances have remained unchanged throughout history, even as the languages themselves are constantly changing. This book will be of interest to scholars of historical linguistics, syntactic theory (particularly generative grammar), language variation and change.

Studies in the Age of Chaucer - Volume 12 (Hardcover): Thomas Heffernan Studies in the Age of Chaucer - Volume 12 (Hardcover)
Thomas Heffernan
R1,710 Discovery Miles 17 100 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.

The French of Medieval England - Essays in Honour of Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (Hardcover): Thelma Fenster, Carolyn P. Collette The French of Medieval England - Essays in Honour of Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (Hardcover)
Thelma Fenster, Carolyn P. Collette; Contributions by Andrew Taylor, Christopher Baswell, Delbert W Russell, …
R3,349 Discovery Miles 33 490 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Essays on the complexity of multilingualism in medieval England. Professor Jocelyn Wogan-Browne's scholarship on the French of England - a term she indeed coined for the mix of linguistic, cultural, and political elements unique to the pluri-lingual situation of medieval England - is of immenseimportance to the field. The essays in this volume extend, honour and complement her path-breaking work. They consider exchanges between England and other parts of Britain, analysing how communication was effected where languagesdiffered, and probe cross-Channel relations from a new perspective. They also examine the play of features within single manuscripts, and with manuscripts in conversation with each other. And they discuss the continuing reach ofthe French of England beyond the Middle Ages: in particular, how it became newly relevant to discussions of language and nationalism in later centuries. Whether looking at primary sources such as letters and official documents, orat creative literature, both religious and secular, the contributions here offer fruitful and exciting approaches to understanding what the French of England can tell us about medieval Britain and the European world beyond. Thelma Fenster is Professor Emerita of French and Medieval Studies, Fordham University; Carolyn Collette is Professor of English Language and Literature at Mount Holyoke College. Contributors: Christopher Baswell,Emma Campbell, Paul Cohen, Carolyn Collette, Thelma Fenster, Robert Hanning, Richard Ingham, Maryanne Kowaleski, Serge Lusignan, Thomas O'Donnell, W. Mark Ormrod, Monika Otter, Felicity Riddy, Delbert Russell, Fiona Somerset, +Robert M. Stein, Andrew Taylor, Nicholas Watson, R.F. Yeager

Magic and Magicians in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Time - The Occult in Pre-Modern Sciences, Medicine, Literature,... Magic and Magicians in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Time - The Occult in Pre-Modern Sciences, Medicine, Literature, Religion, and Astrology (Hardcover)
Albrecht Classen
R5,392 Discovery Miles 53 920 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

There are no clear demarcation lines between magic, astrology, necromancy, medicine, and even sciences in the pre-modern world. Under the umbrella term 'magic,' the contributors to this volume examine a wide range of texts, both literary and religious, both medical and philosophical, in which the topic is discussed from many different perspectives. The fundamental concerns address issue such as how people perceived magic, whether they accepted it and utilized it for their own purposes, and what impact magic might have had on the mental structures of that time. While some papers examine the specific appearance of magicians in literary texts, others analyze the practical application of magic in medical contexts. In addition, this volume includes studies that deal with the rise of the witch craze in the late fifteenth century and then also investigate whether the Weberian notion of disenchantment pertaining to the modern world can be maintained. Magic is, oddly but significantly, still around us and exerts its influence. Focusing on magic in the medieval world thus helps us to shed light on human culture at large.

The Key in the Window - Marginal Notes in Bunyan's Narratives (Hardcover): Maxine Hancock The Key in the Window - Marginal Notes in Bunyan's Narratives (Hardcover)
Maxine Hancock
R853 R742 Discovery Miles 7 420 Save R111 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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