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“peter j dendle”

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  • The Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous

    Edited by Asa Simon Mittman, Peter J. Dendle ...
    The field of monster studies has grown significantly over the past few years and this companion provides a comprehensive guide to the study of monsters and the monstrous from historical, regional and thematic perspectives. The collection reflects the truly multi-disciplinary nature of monster studies, bringing in scholars from literature, art history, religious studies, history, classics, and ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

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  • The Odyssey

    by Homer ...
    Translated by Walter Shewring ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    This prose translation of the Odyssey is so successful that it has taken its place as one of the few really outstanding versions of Homer's famous epic poem. It is the story of the return of Odysseus from the siege of Troy to his home in Ithaca, and of the vengeance he takes on the suitors of his wife Penelope. Odysseus's account of his adventures since leaving Troy includes his encounter with the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • In the Name of the Mother

    Reflections on Writers and Empire

    by Ngugi wa Thiong'o ...
    Renowned worldwide, as novelist and dramatist, Ngugi wa Thiongo's contributions to the body of critical writing on African literature, politics and society have been highly significant. His best known critical work is Decolonising the Mind, which since publication in 1986 has profoundly influenced other writers, critics, scholars and students.These latest essays reflect Ngugi's continuing ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Medieval Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Elaine Treharne ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    This Very Short Introduction provides a compelling account of the emergence of the earliest literature in Britain and Ireland, including English, Welsh, Scottish, Irish, Anglo-Latin and Anglo-Norman. Introducing the reader to some of the greatest poetry, prose and drama ever written, Elaine Treharne discusses the historical and intellectual background to these works, and considers the physical ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Genealogy of the Tragic

    Greek Tragedy and German Philosophy

    by Joshua Billings ...
    Why did Greek tragedy and "the tragic" come to be seen as essential to conceptions of modernity? And how has this belief affected modern understandings of Greek drama? In Genealogy of the Tragic, Joshua Billings answers these and related questions by tracing the emergence of the modern theory of the tragic, which was first developed around 1800 by thinkers associated with German Idealism. The book ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Stealing Helen

    The Myth of the Abducted Wife in Comparative Perspective

    by Lowell Edmunds ...
    It's a familiar story: a beautiful woman is abducted and her husband journeys to recover her. This story’s best-known incarnation is also a central Greek myth—the abduction of Helen that led to the Trojan War. Stealing Helen surveys a vast range of folktales and texts exhibiting the story pattern of the abducted beautiful wife and makes a detailed comparison with the Helen of Troy myth. Lowell ... Read more

    $45.39 USD

  • Classical Literature

    An Introduction

    Edited by Neil Croally, Roy Hyde ...
    Series series Aspects of Classical Civilization
    Classical Literature: An Introduction provides a series of essays on all the major authors of Greek and Latin literature, as well as on a number of writers less often read. An introductory chapter provides information on important general topics, such as poetic metres, patronage and symposia.The literature is put in historical context, and the material is organized chronologically, but also by ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Hermeneutics of Hell

    Visions and Representations of the Devil in World Literature

    Edited by Gregor Thuswaldner, Daniel Russ ...
    This collection of essays analyzes global depictions of the devil from theological, Biblical, and literary perspectives, spanning the late Middle Ages to the 21st century. The chapters explore demonic representations in the literary works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Dante Alighieri, Charles Baudelaire, John Milton, H.P. Lovecraft, and Cormac McCarthy, among others. The text ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Animal Languages in the Middle Ages

    Representations of Interspecies Communication

    Edited by Alison Langdon ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The essays in this interdisciplinary volume explore language, broadly construed, as part of the continued interrogation of the boundaries of human and nonhuman animals in the Middle Ages. Uniting a diverse set of emerging and established scholars, Animal Languages questions the assumed medieval distinction between humans and other animals. The chapters point to the wealth of non-human ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Tragic Modernities

    by Miriam Leonard ...
    The ancient Greek tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides have long been considered foundational works of Western literature, revered for their aesthetic perfection and timeless truths. Under the microscope of recent scholarship, however, the presumed universality of Greek tragedy has started to fade, as the particularities of Athenian culture have come into sharper focus. The world ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Approaches to Middle English

    Variation, Contact and Change

    Edited by Juan Camilo Conde-Silvestre, Javier Calle-Martín ...
    Series Book 47 - Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature
    This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 8th International Conference of Middle English, held in Spain at the University of Murcia in 2013. The contributions embrace a variety of research topics and approaches, with a particular interest in multilingualism, multidialectalism and language contact in medieval England, together with other more linguistically-oriented approaches on ... Read more

    $83.69 USD

  • Hölderlin’s Dionysiac Poetry

    The Terrifying-Exciting Mysteries

    by Lucas Murrey ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book casts new light on the work of the German poet Friedrich Hölderlin (1770 – 1843), and his translations of Greek tragedy. It shows Hölderlin’s poetry is unique within Western literature (and art) as it retrieves the socio-politics of a Dionysiac space-time and language to challenge the estrangement of humans from nature and one other.In this book, author Lucas Murrey presents a new ... Read more

    $49.49 USD