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The Shadow of Callimachus
Through a series of critical readings this book builds a picture of the Roman reaction to, and adoption of, the Greek poetry of the last three...
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Plato: Clitophon
The Clitophon, a dialogue generally ascribed to Plato, is significant for focusing on Socrates’ role as an exhorter of other people to engage in...
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Interactions of Thought and Language in Old English Poetry
Peter Clemoes brings a lifetime’s close study of Anglo-Saxon texts to this appreciation of Old English poetry, with an alternative interpretation...
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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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The Stagecraft and Performance of Roman Comedy
A comprehensive survey of Roman theatrical production, this book examines all aspects of Roman performance practice, and provides fresh insights on...
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Rewriting Old English in the Twelfth Century
This collection of essays aims to redefine the limits of Old English scholarship by studying some of the recent reworkings of texts composed earlier...
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Adelard of Bath, Conversations with his Nephew
Adelard of Bath was one of the most colourful personalities of the Middle Ages. He travelled to the Crusader kingdoms, to Sicily and south Italy, and...
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The Old English Lives of St. Margaret
This book presents the two Old English versions of the colourful legend of the virgin martyr, St Margaret of Antioch, who became one of the most...
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Traditions and Contexts in the Poetry of Horace
This book explores the whole range of the output of an exceptionally versatile and innovative poet, from the Epodes to the literary-critical...
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A Natural History of Pragmatism
Joan Richardson provides a fascinating and compelling account of the emergence of the quintessential American philosophy: pragmatism. She...
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Visible Song
For many years there has been lively debate about the orality or literacy of Old English verse: about whether the Old English verse which has come...
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The Poetics of Imitation
Western literature knows the anacreontic poems best in the translations or adaptations of such poets as Ronsard, Herrick and Goethe. This collection...
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A Natural History of Pragmatism
Joan Richardson provides a fascinating and compelling account of the emergence of the quintessential American philosophy: pragmatism. She...
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The Poetic Art of Aldhelm
Aldhelm of Malmesbury has been described as the first English man of letters. He was the first Germanic author to compose extensively in Latin...
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Plato and the Hero
Plato’s thinking on courage, manliness and heroism is both profound and central to his work, but these areas of his thought remain under-explored....
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Race, Nationalism and the State in British and American Modernism
Twentieth-century authors were profoundly influenced by changes in the way nations and states governed their citizens. The development of state...
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The Apocryphal Gospels of Mary in Anglo-Saxon England
This book provides an edition, with a facing translation and detailed commentary, of the three apocryphal gospels of Mary written in Old English. The...
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Virgil on the Nature of Things
The Georgics has for many years been a source of fierce controversy among scholars of Latin literature. Is the work optimistic or pessimistic, pro-...
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The American Stage
This book focuses on the economic and social forces which shaped American theatre throughout its 250-year history. The collection of essays, written...
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The Metrical Grammar of Beowulf
This book argues that the formal art of the Old English epic Beowulf is shaped and determined by the poetic language which the poet inherited from...
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Virgil and the Augustan Reception
This book is an examination of the ideological reception of Virgil at specific moments in the last two millennia. The author focuses on the emperor...
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Anglo-American Interplay in Recent Drama
The provocative notion of a contemporary cross-cultural exchange within the medium of theatre is here imposed upon a dozen contemporary...
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Anglo-Saxon Medicine
This is the first book to make a comprehensive study of Old English medical texts. Professor Cameron compares Anglo-Saxon medical practice with that...
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Ancient Epistolary Fictions
The first comprehensive look at fictive letters in Greek literature from Homer to Philostratus. It includes both embedded epistolary narratives in a...
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