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Approaches to the Anglo and American Female Epic 1621-1982

Approaches to the Anglo and American Female Epic 1621-1982

Epic has long been regarded as the exclusive domain of the male literary genius and as an incarnation of patriarchal values. This provocative collection of essays challenges such a hegemonic stereotype by demonstrating the ways in which women writers have successfully adapted the masculine epic tradition to suit their own aesthetic needs and to express their own heroic literary social and historical visions. Bringing the female epic out of the shadows the contributors rethink generic boundaries to illuminate this heretofore hidden literary practice. The essays range from Mary Tighe to Rebecca West from Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Gwendolyn Brooks and from Frances Burney to Virginia Woolf. Bernard Schweizer's introduction titled 'Muses with Pens ' connects the trajectory of ideas and influences in the individual essays to demonstrate how each participates in reclaiming for women writers a place in the development of a female epic tradition. The volume will be an invaluable resource for scholars working on issues related to genre canon formation and the evolution of female literary authority. | Approaches to the Anglo and American Female Epic 1621-1982

GBP 26.99
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The Gilgamesh Epic in Genesis 1-11 Peering into the Deep

The Gilgamesh Epic in Genesis 1-11 Peering into the Deep

This book provides a substantive reliable and accessible comparison of the Gilgamesh Epic and Genesis 1–11 investigating their presentation of humanistic themes such as wisdom power and the ‘good life. ’ While the Gilgamesh Epic and Genesis 1–11 are characterized by historical and cultural features that may seem unusual or challenging to modern readers such as the intervention of gods and goddesses and talking animals these ancient literary masterpieces are nonetheless familiar and relatable stories through their humanistic composition. This volume explores the presentation of humanistic themes and motifs throughout both stories. Significant passages and narratives such as stories from the Garden of Eden and the Flood are translated into English and accompanied by comprehensive discussions that compare and contrast shared ideas in both compositions. Written in a lucid and concise fashion this book offers new insights into the Gilgamesh Epic and Genesis 1–11 in an accessible way. The Gilgamesh Epic in Genesis 1–11: Peering into the Deep is suitable for students and scholars of ancient Near Eastern literature with broad appeal across religious studies ancient history and world literature. | The Gilgamesh Epic in Genesis 1-11 Peering into the Deep

GBP 34.99
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Theuerdank The Illustrated Epic of a Renaissance Knight

Theuerdank The Illustrated Epic of a Renaissance Knight

Now appearing in its first English translation Theuerdank introduces readers to the fascinating world of the Renaissance. A forerunner of the graphic novel Theuerdank first published in 1517 includes more than 100 woodcuts executed by leading artists of Central Europe. Long hailed by scholars as a masterpiece of German literature Theuerdank is a fictional account of Habsburg Emperor Maximilian I (1508– 19) and his journey to wed one of the most influential princesses of Europe the wealthy heiress Mary of Burgundy. Through word and image this epic poem which casts Maximilian as Knight Theuerdank recounts his adventures overcoming a series of challenges to reach his goal: avalanches lightning strikes shipwrecks murder plots duels and pitched battles. From politics and propaganda to the environment and the natural world from intimate glimpses of daily life to revolutionary innovations in warfare Theuerdank sheds light on those critical changes transforming European society and culture in this period. With the inclusion of an introductory essay chronology genealogical tables maps translator’s note and discussion questions this volume is a useful tool for students of history art history German and Renaissance studies. | Theuerdank The Illustrated Epic of a Renaissance Knight

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The Epic of America

The Epic of America

There is a tradition of one-volume narrative histories of the United States in which the political military diplomatic social and economic strands are skillfully interwoven. Rather than add to these volumes The Epic of America paints a sweeping picture of the diverse past that has created America's national story. In this important narrative James Truslow Adams reviews how the ordinary American has matured over time in outlook character and opinion. Adams grew increasingly conscious of how different an American is now from the man or woman of any other advanced nation. He is equally interested in the whole of American history how it began and what it represented in the first half of the twentieth century. Adams traces the historical origins of the American concept of bigger and better attitudes toward business the American Dream and other characteristics generally considered typically American. Ever since America became an independent nation each generation has seen an uprising of its citizens to save the American Dream from forces seeking to overwhelm and dispel it. Possibly the greatest of these struggles is still ahead not a struggle of revolutionists against established order but of the ordinary person who seeks to hold fast to the rights of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. This classic book is valuable for a new age and as important for this new century as it was when originally written.

GBP 145.00
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A History of Western Literature From Medieval Epic to Modern Poetry

A History of Western Literature From Medieval Epic to Modern Poetry

This book begins in a narrow territory strictly Western and extends with the passage of time to include the poetry plays novels and works of speculation of the great authors of the past and present from Russia to Mexico. His objective is to tell the whole story of Western writing in languages other than English from the twelfth-century Chanson de Roland to Evtushenko's poetry of the 1960's. Cohen not only presents a factual account of historical growth. The book reflects the author's own judgments and valuations arrived at in the course of almost forty years' reading in the main European languages. A work of original criticism A History of Western Literature immediately became a standard reference when first published. In this new edition the author has included revisions covering the most important recent writers and their work. | A History of Western Literature From Medieval Epic to Modern Poetry

GBP 130.00
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Robert Pollok’s The Course of Time and Literary Theodicy in the Romantic Age The Rise and Fall of a Christian Epic

Robert Pollok’s The Course of Time and Literary Theodicy in the Romantic Age The Rise and Fall of a Christian Epic

This book explores the contexts and reception history of Robert Pollok’s religious epic The Course of Time (1827) one of the best- selling long poems of the nineteenth century which has been almost entirely forgotten today. Widely read in the United States and across the British Empire the poem’s combination of evangelical Calvinism High Romanticism and native Scottishness proved irresistible to many readers. This monograph traces the poem’s origins as a defense of Biblical authority divine providence and religious orthodoxy (against figures like Byron and Joseph Priestley) and explores the reasons for The Course of Time’s enormous decades- long popularity and later precipitous decline. A close reading of the poem and an examination of its reception history offers readers important insights into the dynamic relationship between religion and wider culture in the nineteenth century the uses of literature as a vehicle for theological argument and theodicy and the important but often overlooked role that religion played in literary— and particularly Scottish— Romanticism. This work will appeal to scholars of religious history literary history Evangelicalism Romanticism Scottish literature and nineteenth- century culture. | Robert Pollok’s The Course of Time and Literary Theodicy in the Romantic Age The Rise and Fall of a Christian Epic

GBP 140.00
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The Multivalence of an Epic Retelling the Rāmāyaṇa in South India and Southeast Asia

The Multivalence of an Epic Retelling the Rāmāyaṇa in South India and Southeast Asia

This volume examines The Rāmāyaṇa traditions of South India and Southeast Asia. Bringing together 19 well-known scholars in Rāmāyaṇa studies from Cambodia Canada France India Indonesia Malaysia Singapore Thailand UK and USA this thought-provoking and elegantly illustrated volume engages with the inherent plurality diversity and adaptability of the Rāmāyaṇa in changing socio-political religious and cultural contexts. The journey and localization of the Rāmāyaṇa is explored in its manifold expressions – from classical to folk from temples and palaces to theatres and by-lanes in cities and villages and from ancient to modern times. Regional Rāmāyaṇas from different parts of South India and Southeast Asia are placed in deliberate juxtaposition to enable a historically informed discussion of their connected pasts across land and seas. The three parts of this volume organized as visual literary and performance cultures discuss the sculpted painted inscribed written recited and performed Rāmāyaṇas. A related emphasis is on the way boundaries of medium and genre have been crossed in the visual literary and performed representations of the Rāmāyaṇa. | The Multivalence of an Epic Retelling the Rāmāyaṇa in South India and Southeast Asia

GBP 130.00
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Ovid's Metamorphoses A Reader for Students in Elementary College Latin

Ovid's Metamorphoses A Reader for Students in Elementary College Latin

Ovid’s Metamorphoses is a Latin reader designed to partner existing elementary Latin textbooks. The book features thirty compelling stories graduated in difficulty and adapted from Ovid’s epic Metamorphoses into prose. The original poem contains many different stories united thematically by the transformation which occurs in all of them; the epic features romance seduction humour violence monsters and misbehaving gods. Each chapter contains: a Latin passage adapted from the epic an accompanying vocabulary list a short commentary to help with translation a concise review of the specific grammar covered a brief comment on a literary aspect of the poem or featured myth. Suitable for college students studying Latin at the elementary level Ovid’s Metamorphoses is designed to be used alongside elementary Latin textbooks. Preserving Ovid’s language and highly vivid descriptions this reader introduces students to the epic masterpiece allows them to consolidate their understanding of Latin prose and offers opportunities for literary discussion. Christine Albright is the 2020 recipient of the CAMWS Bolchazy Pedagogy Book Award. | Ovid's Metamorphoses A Reader for Students in Elementary College Latin

GBP 35.99
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Milton's Creation A Guide through Paradise Lost

Milton's Creation A Guide through Paradise Lost

First published in 1971. The intention of Milton’s Creation is to provide the student with a simple and direct entry into Paradise Lost. The author is not concerned with taking sides in critical controversy. His aim is to elucidate Milton’s primary meanings; this is a work of exegesis not of interpretation. In this new book on arguably the greatest epic in the English language the central substance of Milton’s ‘great Argument’ is articulated with great clarity. By keeping in mind the epic status and universality common to Paradise Lost and Ulysses the author introduces a post-Joycean perspective into his vision of Milton’s Creation. | Milton's Creation A Guide through Paradise Lost

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Citizen Artists A Guide to Helping Young People Make Plays That Change the World

Citizen Artists A Guide to Helping Young People Make Plays That Change the World

Citizen Artists takes the reader on a journey through the process of producing funding researching creating rehearsing directing performing and touring student-driven plays about social justice. The process at the heart of this book was developed from 2015–2021 at New York City’s award-winning Epic Theatre Ensemble with and for their youth ensemble: Epic NEXT. Author and Epic Co-Founder James Wallert shares his company’s unique internationally recognized methodology for training young arts leaders in playwriting inquiry-based research verbatim theatre devising applied theatre and performance. Readers will find four original plays seven complete timed-to-the-minute lesson plans 36 theatre arts exercises and pages of practical advice from more than two dozen professional teaching artists to use for their own theatre making arts instruction or youth organizing. Citizen Artists is a one-of-a-kind resource for students interested in learning about theatre and social justice; educators interested in fostering learning environments that are more rigorous democratic and culturally-responsive; and artists interested in creating work for new audiences that is more inclusive courageous and anti-racist. | Citizen Artists A Guide to Helping Young People Make Plays That Change the World

GBP 31.99
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Greek Myth and the Bible

Greek Myth and the Bible

Since the nineteenth-century rediscovery of the Gilgamesh epic we have known that the Bible imports narratives from outside of Israelite culture refiguring them for its own audience. Only more recently however has come the realization that Greek culture is also a prominent source of biblical narratives. Greek Myth and the Bible argues that classical mythological literature and the biblical texts were composed in a dialogic relationship. Louden examines a variety of Greek myths from a range of sources analyzing parallels between biblical episodes and Hesiod Euripides Argonautic myth selections from Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Homeric epic. This fascinating volume offers a starting point for debate and discussion of these cultural and literary exchanges and adaptations in the wider Mediterranean world and will be an invaluable resource to students of the Hebrew Bible and the influence of Greek myth.

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English Radicalism (1935-1961) Volume 4

English Radicalism (1935-1961) Volume 4

Reissuing the epic undertaking of Dr S. Maccoby these volumes cover the story of English Radicalism from its origins right through to its questionable end. By combining new sources with the old and often long forgotten the volumes provide an impressive history of radicalism and shed light on the course of English political development. The six volumes are arranged chronologically from 1762 through to the perceived end of British Radicalism in the mid-twentieth century. | English Radicalism (1935-1961) Volume 4

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Routledge Library Editions: The Russian Civil War

Routledge Library Editions: The Russian Civil War

Originally published between 1918 and 1967 the 4 volumes in this set on the Russian Civil War: use archive material from official records cover both the detail and the wider implications of these epic events provid a short history of the Caucasus campaign and connect the events that were taking place in the Middle East with the past history of Central Asia combine vivid narrative of the military events with a biographical discussion of the White Generals | Routledge Library Editions: The Russian Civil War

GBP 450.00
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English Radicalism (1935-1961) Volume 6

English Radicalism (1935-1961) Volume 6

This is volume 6 of the set ^English Radicalism (1935-1961). Reissuing the epic undertaking of Dr S. Maccoby these volumes cover the story of English Radicalism from its origins right through to its questionable end. By Combining new sources with the old and often long forgotten the volumes provide an impressive history of radicalism and shed light on the course of English political development. The six volumes are arranged chronologically from 1762 through to the perceived end of British Radicalism in the mid-twentieth century. | English Radicalism (1935-1961) Volume 6

GBP 44.99
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English Radicalism (1935-1961) Volume 5

English Radicalism (1935-1961) Volume 5

This is volume 5 of the set ^English Radicalism (1935-1961). Reissuing the epic undertaking of Dr S. Maccoby these volumes cover the story of English Radicalism from its origins right through to its questionable end. By Combining new sources with the old and often long forgotten the volumes provide an impressive history of radicalism and shed light on the course of English political development. The six volumes are arranged chronologically from 1762 through to the perceived end of British Radicalism in the mid-twentieth century. | English Radicalism (1935-1961) Volume 5

GBP 44.99
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Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet Exploration Encounter and the French New World

Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet Exploration Encounter and the French New World

In this succinct dual biography Laura Chmielewski demonstrates how the lives of two French explorers – Jacques Marquette a Jesuit missionary and Louis Jolliet a fur trapper – reveal the diverse world of early America. Following the explorers' epic journey through the center of the American continent Marquette and Jolliet combines a story of discovery and encounter with the insights derived from recent historical scholarship. The story provides perspective on the different methods and goals of colonization and the role of Native Americans as active participants in this complex and uneven process. | Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet Exploration Encounter and the French New World

GBP 35.99
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Emotional Trauma in Greece and Rome Representations and Reactions

Emotional Trauma in Greece and Rome Representations and Reactions

This volume examines emotional trauma in the ancient world focusing on literary texts from different genres (epic theatre lyric poetry philosophy historiography) and archaeological evidence. The material covered spans geographically from Greece and Rome to Judaea with a chronological range from about 8th c. bce to 1st c. ce. The collection is organized according to broad themes to showcase the wide range of possibilities that trauma theory offers as a theoretical framework for a new analysis of ancient sources. It also demonstrates the various ways in which ancient texts illuminate contemporary problems and debates in trauma studies. | Emotional Trauma in Greece and Rome Representations and Reactions

GBP 38.99
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Virtue and Knowledge An Introduction to Ancient Greek Ethics

Virtue and Knowledge An Introduction to Ancient Greek Ethics

Originally published in 1991 this book focuses on the concept of virtue and in particular on the virtue of wisdom or knowledge as it is found in the epic poems of Homer some tragedies of Sophocles selected writings of Plato Aristotle and the Stoic and Epicurean philosophers. The key questions discussed are the nature of the virtues their relation to each other and the relation between the virtues and happiness or well-being. This book provides the background and interpretative framework to make classical works on Ethics such as Plato’s Republic and Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics accessible to readers with no training in the classics. | Virtue and Knowledge An Introduction to Ancient Greek Ethics

GBP 36.99
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Silius Italicus' Punica Rome’s War with Hannibal

Silius Italicus' Punica Rome’s War with Hannibal

This book offers in one volume a modern English translation of all 17 books of Silius Italicus’ Punica. Composed in the first century CE this epic tells the story of the Second Punic War between Rome and Hannibal’s Carthage (218-202 BCE). It is not only a crucial text for students of Flavian literature but also an important source for anyone studying early Imperial perspectives on the Roman Republic. The translation is clear and comprehensible while also offering an accurate representation of the Latin text. Augmented by a scholarly introduction extensive notes glossary and a comprehensive bibliography (included in the introduction) this volume makes the text accessible and relevant for students and scholars alike. | Silius Italicus' Punica Rome’s War with Hannibal

GBP 38.99
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Nostalgias for Homer in Greek Literature of the Roman Empire

Nostalgias for Homer in Greek Literature of the Roman Empire

This volume investigates how versions of Trojan War narratives written in Greek in the first through fifth centuries C. E. created nostalgias for audiences. In ancient education the Iliad and the Odyssey were used as models through which students learned Greek language and literature. This combined with the ruling elite’s financial encouragement of re-creations of the Greek literature of the past created a culture of nostalgia. This book explores the different responses to this climate particularly in the case of the third-century C. E. poet Quintus of Smyrna’s epic Posthomerica. Positioning itself as a sequel to the Iliad and a prequel to the Odyssey the Posthomerica is unique in its middle-of-the-road response to nostalgia for Homer’s epics. This book contrasts Quintus’ poem with other responses to nostalgia for Homeric narratives in Greek literature of the Roman Empire. Some authors contradict pivotal events of the Iliad and Odyssey such as the first-century orator Dio Chrysostom’s Trojan Speech which claims that the Trojan hero Hector did not in fact die contrary to the Iliad’s account. Others re-created Homeric narratives but did not contradict them improvising some elements and adding others. Quintus strikes a compromise in his epic re-imagining Homeric narrative by introducing new characters and scenarios while at the same time retaining the Iliad and Odyssey’s aesthetics. Nostalgias for Homer in Greek Literature of the Roman Empire is of interest to students and scholars working on Homeric reception and the Greek literature of the Roman Empire as well as those interested in classical literature and reception more broadly.

GBP 130.00
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The Republic of the Ushakovka Admiral Kolchak and the Allied Intervention in Siberia 1918-1920

The Republic of the Ushakovka Admiral Kolchak and the Allied Intervention in Siberia 1918-1920

This volume originally published in 1990 and now with an updated Preface gives an account of the Allies' last concerted attempt to destroy Russia's nascent Bolshevik regime. At the start it looked like a threat that should be taken seriously as the Reds' enemies both native and foreign combined with trained mercenaries under the leadership of a Tsarist admiral. But it finished with a firing squad on the ice and a grisly end for the ill-fated Admiral Kolchak. With him died the last hope for the old order in Russia and the future of the new Soviet state was secure. The skill of the author's narrative lies in his mastery both of the detail and of the wider implications of these epic events. | The Republic of the Ushakovka Admiral Kolchak and the Allied Intervention in Siberia 1918-1920

GBP 35.99
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Gilgamesh

Gilgamesh

Gilgamesh focuses on the eponymous hero of the world’s oldest epic and his legendary adventures. However it also goes further and examines the significance of the story’s Ancient Near Eastern context and what it tells us about notions of kingship animality and the natures of mortality and immortality. In this volume Louise M. Pryke provides a unique perspective to consider many foundational aspects of Mesopotamian life such as the significance of love and family the conceptualisation of life and death and the role of religious observance. The final chapter assesses the powerful influence of Gilgamesh on later works of ancient literature from the Hebrew Bible to the Odyssey to The Tales of the Arabian Nights and his reception through to the modern era. Gilgamesh is an invaluable tool for anyone seeking to understand this fascinating figure and more broadly the relevance of Near Eastern myth in the classical world and beyond.

GBP 38.99
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Literature and Power A Critical Investigation of Literary Legitimacy

Literature and Power A Critical Investigation of Literary Legitimacy

With reference to the theoretical framework of Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu this book offers a critical investigation into such epic issues as the end of art and the inherent laws of literature’s evolution while conflating the two into one major argumentation. The book proceeds from Hegel’s claim of “the end of art” to tackle the universal yet essential problem of literature: its legitimacy in a sociological sense. It invests Bourdieu’s sociological terms – power capital habitus field and so forth-into the study of literature and art while taking on other theoretical enquiries particularly the Marxist exploration into ideology as well as aspects of economics and communication studies. This book will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of the sociology of literature cultural studies and those with specific interests in Chinese literature literary and art theory. | Literature and Power A Critical Investigation of Literary Legitimacy

GBP 120.00
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