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  • Pindar and the Emergence of Literature

    by Boris Maslov ...
    Pindar and the Emergence of Literature places Pindar in the context of the evolution of Archaic Greek poetics. While presenting an in-depth introduction to diverse aspects of Pindar's art (authorial metapoetics, imagery, genre hybridization, religion, social context, and dialect), it seeks to establish a middle ground between cultural contextualism and literary history, paying attention both to ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Persistent Forms

    Explorations in Historical Poetics

    Edited by Ilya Kliger, Boris Maslov ...
    Series series Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics
    Since the mid-1980s, attempts to think history and literature together have produced much exciting work in the humanities. Indeed, some form of historicism can be said to inform most of the current scholarship in literary studies, including work in poetics, yet much of this scholarship remains undertheorized.Envisioning a revitalized and more expansive historicism, this volume builds on the ... Read more

    $71.09 USD

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  • The Canterbury Tales

    by Geoffrey Chaucer, Christopher Cannon ...
    Translated by David Wright ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Whoever best acquits himself, and tells The most amusing and instructive tale, Shall have a dinner, paid for by us all...' In Chaucer's most ambitious poem, The Canterbury Tales (c. 1387), a group of pilgrims assembles in an inn just outside London and agree to entertain each other on the way to Canterbury by telling stories. The pilgrims come from all ranks of society, from the crusading Knight ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • Complete Letters

    by Pliny the Younger ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Pliny's letters provide a fascinating insight into Roman life in the period 97 to 112 AD. They document politics, social life, religion, the educational system, the treatment of slaves and include a vivid description of the eruption of Vesuvius. This is a lively and sympathetic new translation. - ;'Gaius Pliny sends greetings to his friend Septicius Clarus...' In these letters to his friends and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • A Writer at War

    A Soviet Journalist with the Red Army, 1941-1945

    by Vasily Grossman ...
    When the Germans invaded Russia in 1941, Vasily Grossman became a special correspondent for the Red Star, the Soviet Army's newspaper, and reported from the frontlines of the war. A Writer at War depicts in vivid detail the crushing conditions on the Eastern Front, and the lives and deaths of soldiers and civilians alike. Witnessing some of the most savage fighting of the war, Grossman saw ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • What Is to Be Done?

    by Nikolai Chernyshevsky ...
    Translated by Michael R. Katz ...
    No work in modern literature, with the possible exception of Uncle Tom's Cabin, can compete with What Is to Be Done? in its effect on human lives and its power to make history. For Chernyshevsky's novel, far more than Marx's Capital, supplied the emotional dynamic that eventually went to make the Russian Revolution.―The Southern ReviewAlmost from the moment of its publication in 1863, Nikolai ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Thug Notes

    A Street-Smart Guide to Classic Literature

    by Sparky Sweets PhD ...
    Sparky Sweets, PhD. and Wisecrack proudly present this outrageously funny, ultra-sharp guide to literature based on the hit online series, Thug Notes. Inside, you'll find hilarious plot breakdowns and masterful analyses of sixteen of literature's most beloved classics, including: The Catcher in the Rye, To Kill A Mockingbird, Pride & Prejudice, The Color Purple, Hamlet, Things Fall Apart, and more ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • The Odyssey

    by Homer, William Allan ...
    Translated by Anthony Verity ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection
    'Grey-eyed Athena sent them a following breeze, the fresh- blowing westerly, whistling over the wine-dark sea' Twenty years after setting out to fight in the Trojan War, Odysseus is yet to return home to Ithaca. His household is in disarray: a horde of over 100 disorderly and arrogant suitors are vying to claim Odysseus' wife Penelope, and his young son Telemachus is powerless to stop them. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Homer: Odyssey Books XIII and XIV

    by Homer ...
    Series series Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
    The second part of the Odyssey takes epic in new directions, giving significant roles to people of 'lower status' and their way of life: epic notions of the primacy of the aristocrat and the achievements of the Trojan War are submitted to scrutiny. Books XIII and XIV contain some of the subtlest human exchanges in the poem, as Athena and Odysseus spar with each other and Odysseus tests the quiet ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Warped Mourning

    Stories of the Undead in the Land of the Unburied

    by Alexander Etkind ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    After Stalin's death in 1953, the Soviet Union dismantled the enormous system of terror and torture that he had created. But there has never been any Russian ban on former party functionaries, nor any external authority to dispense justice. Memorials to the Soviet victims are inadequate, and their families have received no significant compensation. This book's premise is that late Soviet and post ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

    by Publius Ovidius Naso, Translator: Henry Thomas Riley ...
    The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid is one of the great book for those who love ancient & classical poem. Ovidius had taken him a decade to compose his great poem, during which time he published little, but the Roman world was still abuzz with excitement over his richly erotic Art of Love. Full of veiled political and historical references, The Metamorphoses lived on to become a ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • If There is Something to Desire

    One Hundred Poems

    by Vera Pavlova ...
    Translated by Steven Seymour ...
    I broke your heart. / Now barefoot I tread / on shards.Such is the elegant simplicity—a whole poem in ten words, vibrating with image and emotion—of the best-selling Russian poet Vera Pavlova. The one hundred poems in this book, her first full-length volume in English, all have the same salty immediacy, as if spoken by a woman who feels that, as the title poem concludes, “If there was nothing to ... Read more

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