Author: Raoul LefèvrePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Troy (Extinct city)
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye
Author: Raoul LefèvrePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Troy (Extinct city)
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
The Cambridge Guide to Homer
Author: Corinne Ondine PachePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108663621
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 974
Book Description
From its ancient incarnation as a song to recent translations in modern languages, Homeric epic remains an abiding source of inspiration for both scholars and artists that transcends temporal and linguistic boundaries. The Cambridge Guide to Homer examines the influence and meaning of Homeric poetry from its earliest form as ancient Greek song to its current status in world literature, presenting the information in a synthetic manner that allows the reader to gain an understanding of the different strands of Homeric studies. The volume is structured around three main themes: Homeric Song and Text; the Homeric World, and Homer in the World. Each section starts with a series of 'macropedia' essays arranged thematically that are accompanied by shorter complementary 'micropedia' articles. The Cambridge Guide to Homer thus traces the many routes taken by Homeric epic in the ancient world and its continuing relevance in different periods and cultures.
Troilus and Cressida
Author: William ShakespearePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Given the wealth of formal debate contained in this tragedy, Troilus and Cressida was probably written in 1602 for a performance at one of the Inns of the Court. Shakespeare's treatment of the age-old tale of love and betrayal is based on many sources, from Homer and Ovid to Chaucer andShakespeare's near contemporary Robert Greene. In the introduction the various problems connected with the play, its performance, and publication, are considered succinctly; its multiple sources are discussed in detail, together with its peculiar stage history and its renewed popularity in recentyears.
Renaissance Retrospections
Author: Sarah A. KelenPublisher:
ISBN: 9781580441735
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Middle Ages provided an important, if complex, set of literary and historiographic models for early modern authors, although the early modern authors responded to the alien political, religious, and cultural landscape of medieval England through their more present ideological concerns. From Shakespeare's manipulation of his medieval source material to Protestant responses to medieval Catholicism, this collection of essays explores the ways that early modern English writers responded to the medieval English literary and historical record, dealing with topics such as historiographic bias, print history, intertextuality, and cultural history.
Encyclopædia of Literary and Typographical Anecdote. ... Second Edition, to which are Added, a Continuation ... and a Practical Manual of Printing
Author: Charles Henry TIMPERLEYPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1166
Book Description
The Enemies of Books
Author: William BladesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Book collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Taking Stock – Twenty-Five Years of Comparative Literary Research
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900441035X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Read an interview with Norbert Bachleitner. In this 200th volume of Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft the editors Norbert Bachleitner, Achim H. Hölter and John A. McCarthy ‘take stock’ of the discipline. It focuses on recurrent questions in the field of Comparative Literature: What is literature? What is meant by ‘comparative’? Or by ‘world’? What constitute ‘transgressions’ or ‘refractions’? What, ultimately, does being at home in the world imply? When we combine the answers to these individual questions, we might ultimately reach an intriguing proposition: Comparative Literature contributes to a sense of being at home in a world that is heterogeneous and fractured, rather than affirming a monolithic canon marked by territory and homogeneity. The volume unites essays on world literature, literature in the context of the history of ideas, comparative women and gender studies, aesthetics and textual analysis, and literary translation and tradition.
The American Bookseller
Author: The Microbook Library of English Literature: Beginnings to 1660
Author: Library Resources, incPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books on microfilm
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Incunabula in Transit
Author: Lotte HellingaPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900434036X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Almost half a million books printed in the fifteenth century survive in collections worldwide. In Incunabula in Transit Lotte Hellinga explores how and where they were first disseminated. Propelled by the novel need to market hundreds of books, early printers formed networks with colleagues, engaged agents and traded Latin books over long distances. They adapted presentation to suit the taste of distinct readerships, local and remote. Publishing in vernacular languages required typographical innovations, as the chapter on William Caxton’s Flanders enterprise demonstrates. Eighteenth-century collectors dislodged books from institutions where they had rested since the sales drives of early printers. Erudite and entertaining, Hellinga’s evidence-based approach, linked to historical context, deepens understanding of the trade in early printed books.