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(Paperback)
By: Graeme Tytler
ISBN: 9780691614632
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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After discussing Lavater's place in eighteenth-century German letters and his importance in the history of Western physiognomy, Dr. Tytler examines the literary portrait in the modern novel and suggests that the development of techniques of character description and the growth of observational powers of narrators and characters alike, as manifest i
(Hardback)
By: Ulrich Wicks
ISBN: 9780313249341
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 1989
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Beginning with a definition and discussion of the basic picaresque narrative structure and theme, Part I considers the origins and development of a specific type of picaresque narrative in sixteenth and seventeenth century Spain--the picaresque novel.
(Hardback)
By: Tovi Bibring
ISBN: 9781666949315
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book presents an annotated translation alongside a multifaceted analysis exploring beard symbolism, interpretations of moralistic discourses, investigations of cultural assimilation and derogatory imagery, and offers insightful close readings, shedding new light on this intriguing text and its broader cultural context.
(Paperback)
By: Dr Richard Stoneman
ISBN: 9781780761855
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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In this first work on the subject for many years, Richard Stoneman shows that Pindar's works, while at first seeming obscure and fragmentary, reward further study. An unmatched craftsman with words, and witness to a profoundly religious sensibility, he is a poet who takes modern readers to the heart of Greek ideas.
(Paperback)
By: Charles Segal
ISBN: 9780691610757
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Combining historical and philological method with contemporary literary analysis, this study of Pindar's longest and most elaborate victory ode, the Fourth Pythian, traces the underlying mythical patterns, implicit poetics, and processes of mythopoesis that animate his poetry Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the lat
(Hardback)
By: Charles Segal
ISBN: 9780691638829
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Naomi Baker
ISBN: 9780719068744
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2010
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book examines the depiction of physically ugly characters in a striking range of early modern literary and visual texts, offering fascinating insights into the ways in which ugliness and deformity were perceived and represented in the era, particularly with regard to gender and the construction of identity. -- .
(Hardback)
By: Zenon Culverhouse
ISBN: 9781793611215
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book examines Plato's most puzzling dialogue, Hippias Minor, in detail, treating Socrates' engagement with both Homer and the sophist Hippias over human excellence as at once playful and deadly serious.
(Hardback)
By: Ivor Ludlam
ISBN: 9780739190197
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Plato's Republic as a Philosophical Drama on Doing Well reimagines the central theme of Plato's foundational work through an interpretation of its characters as paradigms of the apparent good. Focusing attention on the dialogue itself, Ivor Ludlam provides an innovative, holistic, and dramatic new perspective on the classic text.
(Paperback, Second Edition)
By: Gregory Vlastos
ISBN: 9780691100210
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 1974
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Consists of Gregory Vlastos' studies on a variety of themes in Plato's metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and social philosophy. This book offers solutions to crucial difficulties in this fundamental Platonic work. It contains extensively reviewed papers which comprise almost all of Gregory Vlastos' published work on Plato.
(Hardback)
By: Winthrop Wetherbee
ISBN: 9780691646763
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Professor David Christenson
ISBN: 9781350020542
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A study of Casina in its social-historical and performance contexts, and of its themes and reception.
(Paperback)
By: Professor David Christenson
ISBN: 9781350020535
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A study of Casina in its social-historical and performance contexts, and of its themes and reception.
(Hardback)
By: Professor Ariana Traill
ISBN: 9781350241787
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: T. H. M. Gellar-Goad
ISBN: 9781350214330
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: T. H. M. Gellar-Goad
ISBN: 9781350079748
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: T. H. M. Gellar-Goad
ISBN: 9781350416222
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Andrew M Feldherr
ISBN: 9780691138145
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2010
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Offers an interpretation of politics and identity in Ovid's epic poem of transformations, "The Metamorphoses". Examining the emphatically fictional character of the poem, this book argues that Ovid uses the problem of fiction in the text to redefine the power of poetry in Augustan Rome.
(Paperback, New edition)
By: Dr J.R. Hamilton
ISBN: 9781853995743
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 1999
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Based on Ziegler's revised text, this book provides a commentary on Plutarch's "Life of Alexander".
(Hardback)
By: Dr Robert T. Tally Jr.
ISBN: 9781623564278
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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"Argues that Poe offers an alternative to American literature through his satirical critique of U.S. national culture and his projection of a postnational imagination"--
(Paperback)
By: Dr Robert T. Tally Jr.
ISBN: 9781501309298
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Susan Fox
ISBN: 9780691617077
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2015
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Susan Fox
ISBN: 9780691644240
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Dr Bart Eeckhout
ISBN: 9781501313486
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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