Author: Koen De Temmerman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191007528
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 906
Book Description
Biography is one of the most widespread literary genres worldwide. Biographies and autobiographies of actors, politicians, Nobel Prize winners, and other famous figures have never been more prominent in book shops and publishers' catalogues. This Handbook offers a wide-ranging, multi-authored survey on biography in Antiquity from its earliest representatives to Late Antiquity. It aims to be a broad introduction and a reference tool on the one hand, and to move significantly beyond the state-of-the-art on the other. To this end, it addresses conceptual questions about this sprawling genre, offers both in-depth readings of key texts and diachronic studies, and deals with the reception of ancient biography across multiple eras up to the present day. In addition, it takes a wide approach to the concept of ancient biography by examining biographical depictions in different textual and visual media (epigraphy, sculpture, architecture) and by providing outlines of biographical developments in ancient and late antique cultures other than Graeco-Roman. Highly accessible, this book aims at a broad audience ranging from specialists to newcomers in the field. Chapters provide English translations of ancient (and modern) terminology and citations. In addition, all individual chapters are concluded by a section containing suggestions for further reading on their specific topic.
The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Biography
Author: Koen De Temmerman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191007528
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 906
Book Description
Biography is one of the most widespread literary genres worldwide. Biographies and autobiographies of actors, politicians, Nobel Prize winners, and other famous figures have never been more prominent in book shops and publishers' catalogues. This Handbook offers a wide-ranging, multi-authored survey on biography in Antiquity from its earliest representatives to Late Antiquity. It aims to be a broad introduction and a reference tool on the one hand, and to move significantly beyond the state-of-the-art on the other. To this end, it addresses conceptual questions about this sprawling genre, offers both in-depth readings of key texts and diachronic studies, and deals with the reception of ancient biography across multiple eras up to the present day. In addition, it takes a wide approach to the concept of ancient biography by examining biographical depictions in different textual and visual media (epigraphy, sculpture, architecture) and by providing outlines of biographical developments in ancient and late antique cultures other than Graeco-Roman. Highly accessible, this book aims at a broad audience ranging from specialists to newcomers in the field. Chapters provide English translations of ancient (and modern) terminology and citations. In addition, all individual chapters are concluded by a section containing suggestions for further reading on their specific topic.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191007528
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 906
Book Description
Biography is one of the most widespread literary genres worldwide. Biographies and autobiographies of actors, politicians, Nobel Prize winners, and other famous figures have never been more prominent in book shops and publishers' catalogues. This Handbook offers a wide-ranging, multi-authored survey on biography in Antiquity from its earliest representatives to Late Antiquity. It aims to be a broad introduction and a reference tool on the one hand, and to move significantly beyond the state-of-the-art on the other. To this end, it addresses conceptual questions about this sprawling genre, offers both in-depth readings of key texts and diachronic studies, and deals with the reception of ancient biography across multiple eras up to the present day. In addition, it takes a wide approach to the concept of ancient biography by examining biographical depictions in different textual and visual media (epigraphy, sculpture, architecture) and by providing outlines of biographical developments in ancient and late antique cultures other than Graeco-Roman. Highly accessible, this book aims at a broad audience ranging from specialists to newcomers in the field. Chapters provide English translations of ancient (and modern) terminology and citations. In addition, all individual chapters are concluded by a section containing suggestions for further reading on their specific topic.
A Concise Handbook of Ancient and Modern Literature
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Category : Anonymns and pseudonyms
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Anonymns and pseudonyms
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Catalogue
Author: C.F. Libbie & Co
Publisher:
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
James Kennedy, W. A. Smith, A. F. Johnson
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Publisher: Ardent Media
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Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Publisher: Ardent Media
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Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
A Handbook of Latin Literature
Author: Herbert Jennings Rose
Publisher: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
ISBN: 9780865163171
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
This handbook is a study of Latin literature, including not only the classical and post-classical pagan authors, but also a representative selection of the Christian writers down to the death of St. Augustine.
Publisher: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
ISBN: 9780865163171
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
This handbook is a study of Latin literature, including not only the classical and post-classical pagan authors, but also a representative selection of the Christian writers down to the death of St. Augustine.
George Watson Cole, 1850-1939
Author: Donald C. Dickinson
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810822610
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Provides a narrative sketch of Cole's life and supplies the text of a number of Cole's most important bibliographic essays, as well as a checklist of his publications. Highly recommended for any collection on books and bibliography...essential in all academic libraries. --AUSTRALIAN LIBRARY REVIEW
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810822610
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Provides a narrative sketch of Cole's life and supplies the text of a number of Cole's most important bibliographic essays, as well as a checklist of his publications. Highly recommended for any collection on books and bibliography...essential in all academic libraries. --AUSTRALIAN LIBRARY REVIEW
The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English
Author: Elaine Treharne
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191613592
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
The study of medieval literature has experienced a revolution in the last two decades, which has reinvigorated many parts of the discipline and changed the shape of the subject in relation to the scholarship of the previous generation. 'New' texts (laws and penitentials, women's writing, drama records), innovative fields and objects of study (the history of the book, the study of space and the body, medieval masculinities), and original ways of studying them (the Sociology of the Text, performance studies) have emerged. This has brought fresh vigour and impetus to medieval studies, and impacted significantly on cognate periods and areas. The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English brings together the insights of these new fields and approaches with those of more familiar texts and methods of study, to provide a comprehensive overview of the state of medieval literature today. It also returns to first principles in posing fundamental questions about the nature, scope, and significance of the discipline, and the directions that it might take in the next decade. The Handbook contains 44 newly commissioned essays from both world-leading scholars and exciting new scholarly voices. Topics covered range from the canonical genres of Saints' lives, sermons, romance, lyric poetry, and heroic poetry; major themes including monstrosity and marginality, patronage and literary politics, manuscript studies and vernacularity are investigated; and there are close readings of key texts, such as Beowulf, Wulf and Eadwacer, and Ancrene Wisse and key authors from Ælfric to Geoffrey Chaucer, Langland, and the Gawain Poet.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191613592
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
The study of medieval literature has experienced a revolution in the last two decades, which has reinvigorated many parts of the discipline and changed the shape of the subject in relation to the scholarship of the previous generation. 'New' texts (laws and penitentials, women's writing, drama records), innovative fields and objects of study (the history of the book, the study of space and the body, medieval masculinities), and original ways of studying them (the Sociology of the Text, performance studies) have emerged. This has brought fresh vigour and impetus to medieval studies, and impacted significantly on cognate periods and areas. The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English brings together the insights of these new fields and approaches with those of more familiar texts and methods of study, to provide a comprehensive overview of the state of medieval literature today. It also returns to first principles in posing fundamental questions about the nature, scope, and significance of the discipline, and the directions that it might take in the next decade. The Handbook contains 44 newly commissioned essays from both world-leading scholars and exciting new scholarly voices. Topics covered range from the canonical genres of Saints' lives, sermons, romance, lyric poetry, and heroic poetry; major themes including monstrosity and marginality, patronage and literary politics, manuscript studies and vernacularity are investigated; and there are close readings of key texts, such as Beowulf, Wulf and Eadwacer, and Ancrene Wisse and key authors from Ælfric to Geoffrey Chaucer, Langland, and the Gawain Poet.
Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 892
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 892
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Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Author: British Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 888
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 888
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The Athenaeum
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Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 946
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 946
Book Description