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With contributions from leading scholars, this is a unique cross-cultural comparison of historical epics across a wide range of cultures and time periods, which presents crucial insights into how history is treated in narrative poetry. The first book to gain new...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-10-27
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Ancient World: Comparative Histories
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With contributions from leading scholars, this is a unique cross-cultural comparison of historical epics across a wide range of cultures and time periods, which presents crucial insights into how history is treated in narrative poetry. The first book to gain new...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-10-27
Collection :
Ancient World: Comparative Histories
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By the author of The Handmaid's Tale and Alias Grace Curious Pursuits is a collection of personal essays, book reviews and articles from the fierce, ingenious mind of Margaret Atwood, ranging from 1970 to the present. Atwood remembers moving to London as a starry-eyed...
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Virago
Parution :
2009-10-01
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By the author of The Handmaid's Tale and DearlyTHE DOOR is Margaret Atwood's first book of poetry since the 1995 MORNING IN THE BURNED HOUSE. Its lucid yet urgent poems range in tone from lyric to ironic to meditative to prophetic, and in subject from the personal to...
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Virago
Parution :
2009-10-01
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The invention of writing was one of the most important technological, cultural, and sociological breakthroughs in human history. With the printed book, information and ideas could disseminate more widely and effectively than ever before -- and in some cases, affect and...
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PublicAffairs
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2009-07-22
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Catullus is one of the liveliest and most appealing Roman poets. His emotion, charm, and apparent spontaneity resonate with readers as strongly today as in antiquity. This sophisticated literary and historical introduction bringsCatullus to life for the modern reader...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-05-06
Collection :
Blackwell Introductions to the Classical World
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This cutting-edge Companion is a comprehensive resource for the study of the modern American novel. Published at a time when literary modernism is being thoroughly reassessed, it reflects current investigations into the origins and character of the movement as a whole. ...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-04-27
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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Helen of Troy: From Homer to Hollywood is a comprehensive literary biography ofHelen of Troy, which explores the ways in which her story has been told and retold in almost every century from the ancient world to the modern day. Takes readers on an epic voyage into the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-04-06
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Helen of Troy: From Homer to Hollywood is a comprehensive literary biography ofHelen of Troy, which explores the ways in which her story has been told and retold in almost every century from the ancient world to the modern day. Takes readers on an epic voyage into the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-04-06
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A Concise Companion to the Romantic Age provides new perspectives on the relationships between literature and culture in Britain from 1780 to 1830 Provides original essays from a variety of multi-disciplinary scholars on the Romantic era Includes fresh insights into...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-04-06
Collection :
Concise Companions to Literature and Culture
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This volume introduces students to the most important figures, movements and trends in post-war British and Irish poetry. An historical overview and critical introduction to the poetry published in Britain and Ireland over the last half-century Introduces students to...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-03-30
Collection :
Concise Companions to Literature and Culture
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This volume introduces students to the most important figures, movements and trends in post-war British and Irish poetry. An historical overview and critical introduction to the poetry published in Britain and Ireland over the last half-century Introduces students to...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-03-30
Collection :
Concise Companions to Literature and Culture
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The Science Fiction Handbook offers a comprehensive and accessible survey of one of the literary world's most fascinating genres. Includes separate historical surveys of key subgenres including time-travel narratives, post-apocalyptic and post-disaster narratives and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-03-30
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Literature Handbooks
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This book introduces and discusses the works of leading feminist postcolonialist Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, by exploring the key concepts and themes to emerge from them. Focuses on the key themes to emerge from Spivak’s work, such as ethics, literature, feminism,...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-03-30
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Ancient Rome and Modern America explores the vital role the narratives and images of Rome have played in America’s understanding of itself and its history. Places America’s response to Rome in a historical context, from the Revolutionary era to the present Looks at...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-03-30
Collection :
Classical Receptions
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Ancient Rome and Modern America explores the vital role the narratives and images of Rome have played in America’s understanding of itself and its history. Places America’s response to Rome in a historical context, from the Revolutionary era to the present Looks at...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-03-30
Collection :
Classical Receptions
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Rome, Season One: History Makes Television examines the first season of the HBO-BBC collaboration,Rome, in a collection of thought-provoking essays by some of the world’s most influential scholars in the fields of classical antiquity and popular culture. Examines...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-03-25
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This succinct, yet comprehensive account of William Faulkner’s literary career, novels, and key short stories offers an imaginative topography of his efforts to reckon with his Southern past, to acknowledge its modernization, and to develop ...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-03-23
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Incorporating a broad range of contemporary scholarship, A History of Victorian Literature presents an overview of the literature produced in Great Britain between 1830 and 1900, with fresh consideration of both major figures and some of the era's less familiar authors....
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-03-12
Collection :
Blackwell History of Literature
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Whither Quo Vadis? offers an engaging account of how the Roman world and its history are represented in film and the way in which the different adaptations reflect the shifting historical situations and ideological concerns of their own times. Explores five...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-03-09
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