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The marvels found in the great cities and in the seas and on the islands : a …
"This volume presents the original text, accompanied by an English translation and commentary, of a hitherto unpublished Syriac composition, entitled the Marvels Found in the Great Cities and in the Seas and on the Islands. Produced by an unknown East Syrian Christian author during the late medieval or early modern period, this work offers a loosely organized catalogue of marvellous events, phe…
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- -
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- 9781800640344
- Collation
- ix, 214 p.
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- 892.3 MAR S
Literary culture in early modern England, 1630 -1700 : angles of contingency
This book explores literary culture in England between 1630 and 1700, focusing on connections between material, epistemic, and political conditions of literary writing and reading. In a number of case studies and close readings, it presents the seventeenth century as a period of change that saw a fundamental shift towards a new cultural configuration: neoclassicism. This shift affected a wide a…
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- -
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- 9783110691375
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- ix, 282 p. ill;
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- -
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- 820.9355 LIT I
LIFE AND LETTERS OF WILLIAM SHARP AND "FIONA MACLEOD" : volume 3
"William Sharp (1855-1905) conducted one of the most audacious literary deceptions of his or any time. Sharp was a Scottish poet, novelist, biographer and editor who in 1893 began to write critically and commercially successful books under the name Fiona Macleod. This was far more than just a pseudonym: he corresponded as Macleod, enlisting his sister to provide the handwriting and address, and…
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- Volume 3: 1900-1905
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781800640078
- Collation
- ix, 650 p. ill;
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- -
- Call Number
- 822.912 LIT
Transgender and the literary imagination changing gender in twentieth-century…
Transgender and the Literary Imagination is the first full length study to revisit twentieth century narratives and their afterlives, examining the extent to which they have reflected, shaped or transformed changing understandings of gender.
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- edition 19
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- 9781474414678
- Collation
- 257. p
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- -
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- 809.9335267. TRA r
Shakespeare and the fall of the roman republic selfhood, stoicism and civil war
Explores Shakespeare's representation of the failure of democracy in ancient Rome This book introduces Shakespeare as a historian of ancient Rome alongside figures such as Sallust, Cicero, St Augustine, Machiavelli, Gibbon, Hegel and Nietzsche. It considers Shakespeare’s place in the history of concepts of selfhood and reflects on his sympathy for Christianity, in light of his reception of me…
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- 21
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- 9781474427487
- Collation
- xi. :321 p. :ill.
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- -
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- 822.33. SHA p
Ovid, Metamorphoses, 3.511-733 : Latin text with introduction, commentary, gl…
This extract from Ovid's 'Theban History' recounts the confrontation of Pentheus, king of Thebes, with his divine cousin, Bacchus, the god of wine. Notwithstanding the warnings of the seer Tiresias and the cautionary tale of a character Acoetes (perhaps Bacchus in disguise), who tells of how the god once transformed a group of blasphemous sailors into dolphins, Pentheus refuses to acknowledge t…
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- 9781783740840
- Collation
- xii, 221p. ; ill.
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- 873.01 GIL o
Henry James's Europe : heritage and transfer
As an American author who chose to live in Europe, Henry James frequently wrote about cultural differences between the Old and New World. The plight of bewildered Americans adrift on a sea of European sophistication became a regular theme in his fiction. This collection of twenty-four papers from some of the world’s leading James scholars offers a comprehensive picture of the author’s cross…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781906924386
- Collation
- xxiv, 271p. ; ill.
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- -
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- 813.4 TRE h
On the literature and thought of the German Classical Era : collected essays
Das vorliegende Buch ist das wissenschaftliche Vermächtnis von Hugh Barr Nisbet (1940–2021), Emeritus des Sidney Sussex College und Nestor der britischen Aufklärungsfor-schung. Nisbet schloss die Arbeit an diesem Band im Dezember 2020 ab, wenige Wochen vor seinem Tod am 6. Februar 2021. Seine Absicht war es, so der Verfasser und zugleich Herausgeber in seinem konzisen Vorwort, einige der ze…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781783747719
- Collation
- viii, 336 p. : ill.
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- -
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- 830.9006 NIS o
Poetry and Number in Graeco-Roman Antiquity
Poetry and mathematics might seem to be worlds apart. Nevertheless, a number of Greek and Roman poets incorporated counting and calculation within their verses. Setting the work of authors such as Callimachus, Catullus and Archimedes in dialogue with the less well-known isopsephic epigrams of Leonides of Alexandria and the anonymous arithmetical poems preserved in the Palatine Anthology, the bo…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781009127295
- Collation
- xi, 246p, : ill
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- -
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- 880.09 MAX
'The Philosophes' by Charles Palissot
DOI https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0201 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Copyright Jessica Goodman Published On 2021-01-21 ISBN Paperback 978-1-78374-908-9 Hardback 978-1-78374-909-6 PDF 978-1-78374-910-2 HTML 978-1-80064-612-4 XML 978-1-78374-913-3 EPUB 978-1-78374-911-9 MOBI 978-1-78374-912-6 Language English Print Length 234 pages (viii+226) Dimens…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-1-80064-612-4
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- vii, 234p, : ill
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- -
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- 842.5 JES
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