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The Cambridge History of Latin American Women's Literature is an essential resource for anyone interested in the development of women's writing... Læs mere
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This interdisciplinary collection of essays by leading international scholars provides a comprehensive account of the context of Dante's life and work. It will not only answer questions,... Læs mere
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This anthology includes 32 poems by French and francophone poets, each followed by an accessibly written, detailed commentary providing a theoretical... Læs mere
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Vision and Meaning in Ninth-Century Byzantium deals with how such visual communication worked and examines the types of messages that pictures could convey in the aftermath of Iconoclasm.
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Examines a range of ancient biographical texts, exploring how formal narrative categories such as time, space and character... Læs mere
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The social, literary and theatrical issues raised by this play, such as its treatment of women and bold experiments with traditional comic forms, have much to engage contemporary students... Læs mere
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An edited volume, first published in 2010, devoted to research into sentence structure within Romance languages, focusing on the dialects of Italy. Coherent and... Læs mere
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Epic games reflect the realities of epic: heroism, power and war. This first major examination of the games in Statius' Thebaid offers a new reading of the poem as a whole. General consideration is also given to the tradition of games in ancient epic, from Homer to Lucan.
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Similes are a particular feature of epic, and those of Homer and Virgil's Aeneid have received considerable attention. This is the first book to examine the more numerous similes in Ovid's Metamorphoses and the ways in which they touch on the most profound issues of the poem.
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Explores the vital links between social order and cosmology through an examination of the concept of foedus (ritual alliance) in Roman religion and literature. Examines a wide range of texts from Homer to St Augustine.
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Proust and the Arts brings together expert Proustians and renowned interdisciplinary scholars in a major reconsideration of the novelist's complex relation to the arts. It examines... Læs mere
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This book sets Prudentius' martyr poetry within the religious, social, and visual contexts of late antique... Læs mere