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Cognitive Classics eBook Series

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  • Experience, Narrative, and Criticism in Ancient Greece

    Under the Spell of Stories

    Edited by Jonas Grethlein, Luuk Huitink, Aldo Tagliabue ...
    Series series Cognitive Classics
    Experience, Narrative, and Criticism in Ancient Greece pursues a new approach to ancient Greek narrative beyond the taxonomies of structuralist narratologies. Focusing on the phenomenal and experiential dimension of our response to narrative, it triangulates ancient narrative with ancient criticism and cognitive approaches, opening up new vistas within the study of classical literature while ably ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

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  • The Nature of Narrative

    Revised and Expanded

    by Robert Scholes, James Phelan, Robert Kellogg ...
    For the past forty years The Nature of Narrative has been a seminal work for literary students, teachers, writers, and scholars. Countering the tendency to view the novel as the paradigm case of literary narrative, authors Robert Scholes and Robert Kellogg in the original edition offered a compelling history of the genre narrative from antiquity to the twentieth-century, even as they carried out ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Approaches to Greek Myth

    by Lowell Edmunds ...
    "A handy introduction to some of the more useful methodological approaches to and the previous scholarship on the subject of Greek myths." — PhoenixSince the first edition of Approaches to Greek Myth was published in 1990, interest in Greek mythology has surged. There was no simple agreement on the subject of "myth" in classical antiquity, and there remains none today. Is myth a narrative or a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Poetry in Speech

    Orality and Homeric Discourse

    by Egbert J. Bakker ...
    Series series Myth and Poetics
    Applying linguistic theory to the study of Homeric style, Egbert J. Bakker offers a highly innovative approach to oral poetry, particularly the poetry of Homer. By situating formulas and other features of oral style within the wider contexts of spoken language and communication, he moves the study of oral poetry beyond the landmark work of Milman Parry and Albert Lord.One of the book's central ... Read more

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  • Image and Myth

    A History of Pictorial Narration in Greek Art

    by Luca Giuliani ...
    Translated by Joseph O'Donnell ...
    On museum visits, we pass by beautiful, well-preserved vases from ancient Greece—but how often do we understand what the images on them depict? In Image and Myth, Luca Giuliani tells the stories behind the pictures, exploring how artists of antiquity had to determine which motifs or historical and mythic events to use to tell an underlying story while also keeping in mind the tastes and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Changing the Subject

    Philosophy from Socrates to Adorno

    by Raymond Geuss ...
    “A history of philosophy in twelve thinkers…The whole performance combines polyglot philological rigor with supple intellectual sympathy, and it is all presented…in a spirit of fun…This bracing and approachable book [shows] that there is life in philosophy yet.”—Times Literary Supplement“Exceptionally engaging…Geuss has a remarkable knack for putting even familiar thinkers in a new light.”—Notre ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Sight and the Ancient Senses

    Edited by Michael Squire ...
    Series series The Senses in Antiquity
    It is to Greek critical thinking about seeing that we owe our conceptual framework for theorizing the senses, and it is also to such thinking that we owe the lasting legacy of Greco-Roman imagery. Sight and the Ancient Senses is the first thorough introduction to the conceptualization of sight in the history, visual culture, literature and philosophy of classical antiquity. Examining how the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • A Companion to Greek Literature

    Edited by Martin Hose, David Schenker ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
    A Companion to Greek Literature presents a comprehensive introduction to the wide range of texts and literary forms produced in the Greek language over the course of a millennium beginning from the 6th century BCE up to the early years of the Byzantine Empire.Features contributions from a wide range of established experts and emerging scholars of Greek literatureOffers comprehensive coverage of ... Read more

    $48.00 USD

  • Aesthetics from Classical Greece to the Present

    by Monroe C. Beardsley ...
    Seeks to bring present-day philosophy principles into the history of aestheticsBefore the publication of Aesthetics from Classical Greece to the Present there were three histories of aesthetics in English—Bosanquet's pioneering work, the second part of Croce's Aesthetic in the Ainsle translation, and the comprehensive volume by Gilbert and Kuhn. While each of these is interesting in its own ways, ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Deep Classics

    Rethinking Classical Reception

    Edited by Professor Shane Butler ...
    Fragmented, buried, and largely lost, the classical past presents formidable obstacles to anyone who would seek to know it. 'Deep Classics' is the study of these obstacles and, in particular, of the way in which the contemplation of the classical past resembles – and has even provided a model for – other kinds of human endeavor. This volume offers a new way to understand the modalities and aims of ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • Oedipus

    by Lowell Edmunds ...
    Series series Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World
    An indispensable guide to the myth of Oedipus this book is the first to analyze its long and varied history from ancient times to the modern day, and presented with an authoritative survey that considers Oedipus in art and music as well as in literature.Lowell Edmunds accepts this variation as the driving force in its longevity and popularity. Refraining from seeking for an original form of the ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Greek and Roman Novel

    Edited by Tim Whitmarsh ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Greek and Roman novels of Petronius, Apuleius, Longus, Heliodorus and others have been cherished for millennia, but never more so than now. The Cambridge Companion to the Greek and Roman Novel contains nineteen original essays by an international cast of experts in the field. The emphasis is upon the critical interpretation of the texts within historical settings, both in antiquity and in the ... Read more

    $27.09 USD