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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “jennifer larson”
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  • Understanding Suzan-Lori Parks

    by Jennifer Larson ...
    Series series Understanding Contemporary American Literature
    Exploration and analysis of the innovative screenplays and novels by an award-winning playwrightUnderstanding Suzan-Lori Parks is a critical study of a playwright and screenwriter who was the first African American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Suzan-Lori Parks is also the recipient of a MacArthur Genius Award, a Whiting Writers Award, a CalArts/Alpert Award in the Arts, two Obie ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Understanding Walter Mosley

    by Jennifer Larson ...
    Series series Understanding Contemporary American Literature
    A survey of an award-winning author's extensive corpus written across a broad range of genresWalter Mosley is perhaps best known for his first published mystery, Devil in a Blue Dress, which became the basis for the 1995 movie of the same name featuring Denzel Washington. Mosley has since written more than forty books across an impressive expanse of genres including, but not limited to, nonfiction ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Understanding Greek Religion

    by Jennifer Larson ...
    Series series Understanding the Ancient World
    Understanding Greek Religion is one of the first attempts to fully examine any religion from a cognitivist perspective, applying methods and findings from the cognitive science of religion to the ancient Greek world. In this book, Jennifer Larson shows that many of the fundamentals of Greek religion, such as anthropomorphic gods, divinatory procedures, purity beliefs, reciprocity, and sympathetic ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Ancient Greek Cults

    A Guide

    by Jennifer Larson ...
    Using archaeological, epigraphic, and literary sources; and incorporating current scholarly theories, this volume will serve as an excellent companion to any introduction to Greek mythology, showing a side of the Greek gods to which most students are rarely exposed.Detailed enough to be used as a quick reference tool or text, and providing a readable account focusing on the oldest, most widespread ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Greek Nymphs

    Myth, Cult, Lore

    by Jennifer Larson ...
    Greek Nymphs: Myths, Cult, Lore is the first comprehensive study of the nymph in the ancient Greek world. This well-illustrated book examines nymphs as both religious and mythopoetic figures, tracing their development and significance in Greek culture from Homer through the Hellenistic period. Drawing upon a broad range of literary and archaeological evidence, Jennifer Larson discusses sexually ... Read more

    $82.79 USD

  • The Sentimental Mode

    Essays in Literature, Film and Television

    Edited by Jennifer Larson, Ashley Reed, Jennifer A. Williamson ...
    This collection of new essay examines how authors of the 20th and 21st centuries continue the use of sentimental forms and tropes of 19th century literature. Current literary and cultural critical consensus seems to maintain that Americans engaged in a turn-of-the-century refutation of the sentimental mode; an analysis of 20th and 21st century narratives, however, reveals an ongoing use of ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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  • A Companion to Greek Mythology

    Edited by Ken Dowden, Niall Livingstone ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
    A Companion to Greek Mythology presents a series of essays that explore the phenomenon of Greek myth from its origins in shared Indo-European story patterns and the Greeks’ contacts with their Eastern Mediterranean neighbours through its development as a shared language and thought-system for the Greco-Roman world.Features essays from a prestigious international team of literary expertsIncludes ... Read more

    $46.00 USD

  • On Greek Religion

    by Robert C.T. Parker ...
    Series Book 60 - Cornell Studies in Classical Philology
    "There is something of a paradox about our access to ancient Greek religion. We know too much, and too little. The materials that bear on it far outreach an individual's capacity to assimilate: so many casual allusions in so many literary texts over more than a millennium, so many direct or indirect references in so many inscriptions from so many places in the Greek world, such an overwhelming ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Athena

    by Susan Deacy ...
    Series series Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World
    In this definitive assessment of the various representations and approaches to Athena, Susan Deacy does what no other has done before and brings all the aspects of this legendary figure into one, outstanding study.A survey of one of the most enduringly popular of ancient deities, the book introduces Athena’s myth, cult and reception, while directing the reader to detailed discussion as and when it ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Greek Mysteries

    The Archaeology of Ancient Greek Secret Cults

    Edited by Michael B. Cosmopoulos ...
    Written by an international team of acknowledged experts, this excellent book studies a wide range of contributions and showcases new research on the archaeology, ritual and history of Greek mystery cults.With a lack of written evidence that exists for the mysteries, archaeology has proved central to explaining their significance and this volume is key to understanding a phenomenon central to ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Uses of Greek Mythology

    by Ken Dowden ...
    Series series Approaching the Ancient World
    In an innovative sequence of topics, Ken Dowden explores the uses Greeks made of myth and the uses to which we can put myth in recovering the richness of their culture. Most aspects of Greek life and history - including war, religion and sexuality - which are discernable through myth, as well as most modern approaches, are given a context in a book which is designed to be useful, accessible and ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Mixanthrôpoi

    Animal-human hybrid deities in Greek religion

    by Emma Aston ...
    Series series Kernos suppléments
    Many of the beings in this book – Cheiron, Pan, Acheloos, the Sirens and others – will be familiar from the narratives of Greek mythology, in which fabulous anatomies abound. However, they have never previously been studied together from a religious perspective, as recipients of cult and as members of the ancient pantheon. This book is the first major treatment of the use of part-animal – ... Read more

    $10.99 USD