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  • Experience, Narrative, and Criticism in Ancient Greece

    Under the Spell of Stories

    Serier serie Cognitive Classics
    Experience, Narrative, and Criticism in Ancient Greece pursues a new approach to ancient Greek narrative beyond the taxonomies of structuralist narratologies. Focusing on the phenomenal and experiential dimension of our response to narrative, it triangulates ancient narrative with ancient criticism and cognitive approaches, opening up new vistas within the study of classical literature while ably ... Læs mere

    763,99 kr.

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  • The Nature of Narrative

    Revised and Expanded

    For the past forty years The Nature of Narrative has been a seminal work for literary students, teachers, writers, and scholars. Countering the tendency to view the novel as the paradigm case of literary narrative, authors Robert Scholes and Robert Kellogg in the original edition offered a compelling history of the genre narrative from antiquity to the twentieth-century, even as they carried out ... Læs mere

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  • Approaches to Greek Myth

    "A handy introduction to some of the more useful methodological approaches to and the previous scholarship on the subject of Greek myths." — PhoenixSince the first edition of Approaches to Greek Myth was published in 1990, interest in Greek mythology has surged. There was no simple agreement on the subject of "myth" in classical antiquity, and there remains none today. Is myth a narrative or a ... Læs mere

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  • Poetry in Speech

    Orality and Homeric Discourse

    Serier serie Myth and Poetics
    Applying linguistic theory to the study of Homeric style, Egbert J. Bakker offers a highly innovative approach to oral poetry, particularly the poetry of Homer. By situating formulas and other features of oral style within the wider contexts of spoken language and communication, he moves the study of oral poetry beyond the landmark work of Milman Parry and Albert Lord.One of the book's central ... Læs mere

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  • Image and Myth

    A History of Pictorial Narration in Greek Art

    af Luca Giuliani ...
    Oversat af Joseph O'Donnell ...
    On museum visits, we pass by beautiful, well-preserved vases from ancient Greece—but how often do we understand what the images on them depict? In Image and Myth, Luca Giuliani tells the stories behind the pictures, exploring how artists of antiquity had to determine which motifs or historical and mythic events to use to tell an underlying story while also keeping in mind the tastes and ... Læs mere

    94,11 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Changing the Subject

    Philosophy from Socrates to Adorno

    af Raymond Geuss ...
    “A history of philosophy in twelve thinkers…The whole performance combines polyglot philological rigor with supple intellectual sympathy, and it is all presented…in a spirit of fun…This bracing and approachable book [shows] that there is life in philosophy yet.”—Times Literary Supplement“Exceptionally engaging…Geuss has a remarkable knack for putting even familiar thinkers in a new light.”—Notre ... Læs mere

    124,61 kr.

  • Sight and the Ancient Senses

    Redigeret af Michael Squire ...
    Serier serie The Senses in Antiquity
    It is to Greek critical thinking about seeing that we owe our conceptual framework for theorizing the senses, and it is also to such thinking that we owe the lasting legacy of Greco-Roman imagery. Sight and the Ancient Senses is the first thorough introduction to the conceptualization of sight in the history, visual culture, literature and philosophy of classical antiquity. Examining how the ... Læs mere

    450,51 kr.

  • A Companion to Greek Literature

    Redigeret af Martin Hose, David Schenker ...
    Serier serie Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
    A Companion to Greek Literature presents a comprehensive introduction to the wide range of texts and literary forms produced in the Greek language over the course of a millennium beginning from the 6th century BCE up to the early years of the Byzantine Empire.Features contributions from a wide range of established experts and emerging scholars of Greek literatureOffers comprehensive coverage of ... Læs mere

    400,61 kr.

  • Aesthetics from Classical Greece to the Present

    Seeks to bring present-day philosophy principles into the history of aestheticsBefore the publication of Aesthetics from Classical Greece to the Present there were three histories of aesthetics in English—Bosanquet's pioneering work, the second part of Croce's Aesthetic in the Ainsle translation, and the comprehensive volume by Gilbert and Kuhn. While each of these is interesting in its own ways, ... Læs mere

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  • The Tomb of Oedipus

    Why Greek Tragedies Were not Tragic

    af William Marx ...
    If Greek tragedies are meant to be so tragic, why do they so often end so well? Here starts the story of a long and incredible misunderstanding. Out of the hundreds of tragedies that were performed, only 32 were preserved in full. Who chose them and why? Why are the lost ones never taken into account? This extremely unusual scholarly book tells us an Umberto Eco-like story about the lost tragedies ... Læs mere

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  • Deep Classics

    Rethinking Classical Reception

    Redigeret af Professor Shane Butler ...
    Fragmented, buried, and largely lost, the classical past presents formidable obstacles to anyone who would seek to know it. 'Deep Classics' is the study of these obstacles and, in particular, of the way in which the contemplation of the classical past resembles – and has even provided a model for – other kinds of human endeavor. This volume offers a new way to understand the modalities and aims of ... Læs mere

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  • Oedipus

    Serier serie Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World
    An indispensable guide to the myth of Oedipus this book is the first to analyze its long and varied history from ancient times to the modern day, and presented with an authoritative survey that considers Oedipus in art and music as well as in literature.Lowell Edmunds accepts this variation as the driving force in its longevity and popularity. Refraining from seeking for an original form of the ... Læs mere

    364,68 kr.