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Vergil's Aeneid and Greek Tragedy: Ritual, Empire, and Intertext
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This is the first systematic study of the importance of Greek tragedy as a fundamental "intertext" for Vergil's Aeneid. Vassiliki Panoussi argues that the epic's representation of ritual acts, especially sacrifice, mourning, marriage, and maenadic ri...
Money and the Early Greek Mind: Homer, Philosophy, Tragedy
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ean: 9780521832281, isbn: 0521832284,
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How were the Greeks of the sixth century BC able to invent philosophy and tragedy? Richard Seaford argues that a large part of the answer can be found in another momentous development, the invention and rapid spread of coinage. By transforming social...
Baudelaire and Schizoanalysis: The Socio-Poetics of Modernism (Cambridge Studies in French)
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ean: 9780521419802, isbn: 0521419808,
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This is the first book to apply the principles of schizoanalysis to literary history and cultural studies. By resituating psychoanalysis in its socio-economic and cultural context, this framework provides a new and illuminating approach to Baudelaire...
Perception and Passion in Dante's Comedy
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ean: 9780521370097, isbn: 0521370094,
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Patrick Boyde argues that the way in which Dante represents what he (or his fictional self) saw and felt was profoundly influenced by the thirteenth-century science of psychology. Professor Boyde offers an authoritative account of the way in which vi...
The Iliad: A Commentary: Volume 4, Books 13-16
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ean: 9780521281744, isbn: 0521281741,
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This, the fourth volume in the six-volume Commentary on the Iliad being prepared under the General Editorship of Professor G. S. Kirk, covers Books 13-16, including the Battle for the Ships, the Deception of Zeus and the Death of Patroklos. Three int...
Blake, Kierkegaard, and the Spectre of Dialectic
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This study traces affinities between the late prophetic poems of William Blake and the work of the philosopher Soren Kierkegaard. Both feature concepts (the Spectre fought by Blake's poet-prophet Los, and Kierkegaard's idea of "dread") embodying a sp...
Virgil's Augustan Epic
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An examination of the main characters in the Aeneid - Aeneas himself, Dido and Turnus - in the light of Virgil's contemporary Augustan political and literary ideology. The characters and the plot and incident of the epic are seen as embodying and exe...
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