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By: Richard Jenkyns
ISBN: 9781853991332
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 1998
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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In the ancient world Homer was recognised as the fountainhead of culture. His poems, the 'Iliad' and the 'Odyssey', were universally admired as examples of great literature which could never be surpassed. In this study, Jenkyns re-examines the two Homeric epics and the work that is perhaps their closest rival, Virgil's Aeneid.
(Hardback)
By: Richard Claverhouse Jebb
ISBN: 9781843715559
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2003
Publisher: Thoemmes Press
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By: Judith Fletcher
ISBN: 9781350144569
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Judith Fletcher
ISBN: 9781350144576
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Classical Myths and Legends in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: A Dictionary of Allegorical Meanings
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By: H. David Brumble
ISBN: 9780313294518
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 1998
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Included are several hundred alphabetically arranged entries for the gods, goddesses, heroes, heroines, and places of classical myth and legend. Each entry includes a brief account of the classical myth, with reference to the Greek and Latin sources.
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By: Michelle Ballif
ISBN: 9780313321788
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2005
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book is a guide to the lives and works of these influential classical figures.
Each entry is written by an expert contributor and provides a biography, a discussion of the rhetorician's works, and primary and secondary bibliographies.
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By: Prof Michael O'Sullivan
ISBN: 9781501378355
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Prof Michael O'Sullivan
ISBN: 9781501344824
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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"Examines how loneliness-in an age of social networks, biopolitical capital, the rankings knowledge economy, and rising inequality-necessitates, and gives rise to, cloneliness (the reproduction of loneliness) in different societies through diverse cultural and institutional practices."--
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By: Douglas RJ. Small
ISBN: 9781350400139
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Douglas RJ. Small
ISBN: 9781350400092
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Dr Monika Class
ISBN: 9781472532398
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Dr Monika Class
ISBN: 9781441180759
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Examines the influence of Kant - and in particular the neglected influence of his moral and political philosophy - on the work of Coleridge.
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By: Professor David Vallins
ISBN: 9781441149879
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Alan Morris
ISBN: 9780854966349
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2010
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Examines the French preoccupation with la mode retro, the renewal of interest in, and re-evaluation of, the Nazi occupation of France.
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By: Edgar Allan Poe
ISBN: 9781350181250
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Edgar Allan Poe
ISBN: 9781350226456
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Paul Valry
ISBN: 9780691647098
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Paul Valry
ISBN: 9780691646558
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Professor Graham Huggan
ISBN: 9781350150850
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Professor Graham Huggan
ISBN: 9781350010895
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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An innovative, interdisciplinary study of colonial attitudes to whales in modern culture from literature to the tourism, written by one of the leading postcolonial critics writing today.
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By: Roger B. Henkle
ISBN: 9780691643403
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Roger B. Henkle
ISBN: 9780691616063
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Comedy cannot be understood as an abstract critical concept, argues Roger Henkle; it 'must be studied in specific cultural and historical contexts. From this point of view he examines the development of literary comedy in nineteenth-century England, and shows how comic modes and techniques were used to express and release the tensions of the middle
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By: Victoria Coldham-Fussell
ISBN: 9781526167040
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2022
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Comic Spenser explains how the deep-rooted cultural bias against humour has skewed interpretation of The Faerie Queene since its first publication. As well as bringing a comic perspective to new areas of the poem, this study explores profound connections between humour, faith, and allegory. -- .
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By: Victoria Coldham-Fussell
ISBN: 9781526131119
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Comic Spenser explains how the deep-rooted cultural bias against humour has skewed interpretation of The Faerie Queene since its first publication. As well as bringing a comic perspective to new areas of the poem, this study explores profound connections between humour, faith, and allegory. -- .
