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A Companion to Ovid is a comprehensive overview of one of the most influential poets of classical antiquity. Features more than 30 newly commissioned chapters by noted scholars writing in their areas of specialization Illuminates various aspects of Ovid's work, such...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2009-04-29
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Blackwell Companions to the Ancient 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
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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
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2009-04-06
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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...
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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...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-03-09
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This text makes use of contemporary work in linguistics to provide up-to-date commentary on the development of Latin, from its prehistoric origins in the Indo-European language family, through the earliest texts, to the creation of the Classical Language of Cicero and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-02-17
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Tragedy: A Short Introduction reinvigorates the genre for readers who are eager to embrace it, but who often find the traditional masterpieces too distant from their own language and world. Argues that today's most popular television shows and films thrive on the type...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-02-09
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Terry Eagleton's Tragedy provides a major critical and analytical account of the concept of 'tragedy' from its origins in the Ancient world right down to the twenty-first century. A major new intellectual endeavour from one of the world's finest, and most...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-02-09
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The Novel: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory 1900–2000 is a collection of the most influential writings on the theory of the novel from the twentieth century. Traces the rise of novel theory and the extension of its influence into other disciplines, especially...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-02-09
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Written by one of the world’s leading theorists in ecocriticism, this manifesto provides a critical summary of the ecocritical movement. A critical summary of the emerging discipline of “ecocriticism”. Written by one of the world’s leading theorists in ecocriticism. ...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-02-09
Collection :
Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos
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