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Lives of Latin Texts(2021)The Lives of Latin Texts collects papers presented at a 2018 conference in the Department of the Classics at Harvard University in honor of Richard Tarrant on the occasion of his retirement. The breadth of authors, genres, periods, and topics is testamentVezava: Trda48,03 € -
Hell Without Fires(2021) PIERCE, YOLANDAExamines the spiritual and earthly results of conversion to Christianity for African-American antebellum writers. Using autobiographical narratives, the book shows how black writers transformed the earthly hell of slavery into a ‘New Jerusalem’, a place tVezava: Mehka49,81 € -
Enumerations(2018) PIPER, ANDREWPiper shows how we can use data in digital humanities to learn more about the texts under consideration, making use of the surprising information that calculation and quantity can offer about words, how they’re used, and what the texts in which they’re foVezava: Mehka45,62 € -
Desiring Arabs(2008) MASSAD, JOSEPH A.Sexual desire has long played a key role in Western judgments about the value of Arab civilization. This title reveals the history of how Arabs represented their own sexual desires. It assembles a compendium of Arabic writing to chart the changes in ArabVezava: Mehka43,72 € -
Chaucer(2019) TURNER, MARIONA groundbreaking biography that recreates the cosmopolitan world in which a wine merchant's son became one of the most celebrated of all English poets More than any other canonical English writer, Geoffrey Chaucer lived and worked at the centre of politicVezava: Trda56,55 € -
King Lear(2022) FRANK, ARTHUR W. (PROFESSOR EMERITUS, UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY)A book on the experience of reading Shakespeare's 'dark plays' which 'often begin with lives falling apart: an event--shipwreck, exile, doubt, or unexpected love--derails what had seemed secure. Those who participate in the plays, as players, audience memVezava: Trda38,00 € -
Posthomerica(2018) QUINTUS SMYRNAEUSQuintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica, composed between the late second and mid-fourth centuries AD, boldly adapts Homeric diction and style to fill in the story of the Trojan expedition between the end of the Iliad and the beginning of the Odyssey. This editioVezava: Trda44,47 € -
Early Greek Philosophy, Volume IX(2016)Volume IX of the nine-volume Loeb edition of Early Greek Philosophy includes the so-called sophists Antiphon, Lycophron, and Xeniades, along with the Anonymous of Iamblichus, the Dissoi Logoi, a chapter on characterizations of the 'sophists' as a group,Vezava: Trda44,47 € -
Early Greek Philosophy, Volume VII(2016)Volume VII of the nine-volume Loeb edition of Early Greek Philosophy includes the atomists Leucippus and Democritus.Vezava: Trda44,47 € -
Early Greek Philosophy, Volume VI(2016)Volume VI of the nine-volume Loeb edition of Early Greek Philosophy includes the later Ionian and Athenian thinkers Anaxagoras, Archelaus, and Diogenes of Apollonia, along with chapters on early Greek medicine and the Derveni Papyrus.Vezava: Trda44,47 € -
Histories, Volume III(2011) POLYBIUSIn his history, Polybius (ca. 200–118 BC) is centrally concerned with how and why Roman power spread. The main part of the work, a vital achievement despite the incomplete state in which all but the first five books of an original forty survive, describesVezava: Trda44,47 € -
Amphitryon. The Comedy of Asses. The Pot of Gold. The Two Bacchises. The Captives(2011) PLAUTUS, TITUS MACCIUSThe comedies of Plautus , who brilliantly adapted Greek plays for Roman audiences ca. 205–184 BC, are the earliest Latin works to survive complete and cornerstones of the European theatrical tradition from Shakespeare and Molière to modern times. Twenty-oVezava: Trda44,47 € -
Toni Morrison and the Natural World(2021) WARDI, ANISSA JANINEOffers the first full-length ecocritical investigation of the Nobel Laureate's novels and brings to the fore an unequalled engagement between race and nature. By providing a racially inflected reading of nature, this volume makes an important contributionVezava: Trda165,68 € -
Modern Languages Study Guides: Un sac de billes(2017) HARRINGTON, KARINELiterature analysis made easy. Build your students' confidence in their language abilities and help them develop the skills needed to critique their chosen work: putting it into context, understanding the themes and narrative technique, as well as specialVezava: Mehka29,47 € -
Mary Shelley(2018) SEYMOUR, MIRANDAThe definitive and richly woven biography of Mary Shelley, in celebration of the 200th anniversary of FrankensteinVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Inside the World of Harry Potter(2018)Offers a collection of essays from one of the world's leading Harry Potter scholars that brings to the forefront a deep critique of modern Western society, using Harry Potter’s world as a mirror to our own. This collection provides a multitude of jumping-Vezava: Mehka77,03 € -
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Modern Languages Study Guides: Bonjour tristesse(2018) HARRINGTON, KARINELiterature analysis made easy. Build your students' confidence in their language abilities and help them develop the skills needed to critique their chosen work: putting it into context, understanding the themes and narrative technique, as well as specialVezava: Mehka29,47 €
