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Before Copyright
When printing first began, a new book automatically fell into the public domain upon publication. Only a special law or privilegium enacted by a...
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The Play of Character in Plato’s Dialogues
This book attempts to bridge the gulf that still exists between literary and philosophical interpreters of Plato by looking at his use of...
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Consciousness and Language
One of the most important and influential philosophers of the last 30 years, John Searle has been concerned throughout his career with a single...
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Pilgrimage
Pilgrimage was a central feature of medieval English life which affected history, politics, art and literature. The shrines were destroyed during the...
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Deontic Morality and Control
This book addresses a dilemma concerning freedom and moral obligation (obligation, right and wrong). If determinism is true, then no one has control...
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Ransom, Revenge, and Heroic Identity in the Iliad
From beginning to end of the Iliad, Agamemnon and Achilleus are locked in a high-stakes struggle for dominance based on their efforts to impose...
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Thought and World
There is an important family of semantic notions that we apply to thoughts and to the conceptual constituents of thoughts - as when we say that the...
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Rape and the Politics of Consent in Classical Athens
This book is the first in-depth study of the topic of rape in classical Athens. Its central focus is on violent sexual encounters but it also raises...
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The Correspondence Theory of Truth
This work presents a version of the correspondence theory of truth based on Wittgenstein’s Tractatus and Russell’s theory of truth and discusses...
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Thought and World
There is an important family of semantic notions that we apply to thoughts and to the conceptual constituents of thoughts - as when we say that the...
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The Path of the Argo
In this innovative study of Apollonius Rhodius’ influential epic poem from the Hellenistic period, the author aims both to offer fresh insights...
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Language in South Africa
This is a comprehensive and wide-ranging guide to language and society in South Africa. As the authors demonstrate, the South African context offers...
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The Logic of the History of Ideas
Human cultures generate meanings, and the history of ideas, broadly conceived, is the study of these meanings. An adequate theory of culture must...
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Slaves, Warfare, and Ideology in the Greek Historians
This book challenges conventional opinion by arguing that slaves and Helots played an important part in classical Greek warfare. Although rival...
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Studies in Classic American Literature
Studies in Classic American Literature, first published in 1923, provides a cross-section of Lawrence’s writing on American literature, including...
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Language and Literary Structure
How does a literary text get to have literary form, and what is the relation between literary form and linguistic form? This theoretical study of...
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Wittgenstein’s Tractatus
Wittgenstein once wrote that "The philosopher strives to find the liberating word, that is, the word that finally permits us to grasp what up...
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The Politics of Immorality in Ancient Rome
This book addresses the question not how immoral the ancient Romans were but why the literature they produced is so preoccupied with immorality. The...
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The Cambridge History of American Literature
Volume 6 of The Cambridge History of American Literature explores the emergence and flowering of modernism in the United States. David Minter...
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The Syntax of Hungarian
Clearly written and comprehensive in scope, this is an essential guide to syntax in the Hungarian language. It describes the key grammatical features...
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Wittgenstein’s Tractatus
Wittgenstein once wrote that "The philosopher strives to find the liberating word, that is, the word that finally permits us to grasp what up...
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The Cambridge Companion to Ovid
Ovid was one of the greatest writers of classical antiquity, and arguably the single most influential ancient poet for post-classical literature and...
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Theatre, Society and the Nation
Theatre has often served as a touchstone for moments of political change or national definition and as a way of exploring cultural and ethnic...
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English Corpus Linguistics
English Corpus Linguistics is a step-by-step guide to creating and analyzing linguistic corpora. It begins with a discussion of the role that corpus...
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