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Narrative, Authority, and Power: The Medieval Exemplum and the Chaucerian Tradition

Product Description: Little attention has been paid to the political and ideological significance of the exemplum, a brief narrative form used to illustrate a moral. Through a study of four major works in the Chaucerian tradition (The Canterbury Tales, John Gower's Confessio Amantis, Thomas Hoccleve's Regement of Princes, and Lydgate's Fall of Princes), Scanlon redefines the exemplum as a 'narrative enactment of cultural authority'...read more

By Larry Scanlon

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9780521432108 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 1, 1994, cover price $78.99 | About this edition: Little attention has been paid to the political and ideological significance of the exemplum, a brief narrative form used to illustrate a moral.

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9780521044257, titled "Narrative, Authority and Power: The Medieval Exemplum and the Chaucerian Tradition" | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 5, 2007, cover price $59.99 | About this edition: Little attention has been paid to the political and ideological significance of the exemplum, a brief narrative form used to illustrate a moral.

The Well-Read Muse: Past and Present in Callimachus and the Hellenistic Poets

Product Description: In this carefully argued and stimulating study, the author investigates the era in which the written work - the book - superseded the assumption of oral composition and performance. In this and in other respects, as this study demonstrates, Hellenistic poets saw themselves as now being part of a new world, remote from the great genres and achievements of the earlier literary tradition...read more

By Peter Bing

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9780979971303 | Isd, July 30, 2008, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In this carefully argued and stimulating study, the author investigates the era in which the written work - the book - superseded the assumption of oral composition and performance.

Thucydides And Pindar: Historical Narrative And The World Of Epinikian Poetry

Product Description: Simon Hornblower argues for a relationship between Thucydides and Pindar not so far acknowledged in modern scholarship. He argues that ancient critics were right to detect stylistic similarities between these two great exponents of the "severe style" in prose and verse...read more

By Simon Hornblower

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9780199249190 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, January 6, 2005, cover price $215.00 | About this edition: Simon Hornblower argues for a relationship between Thucydides and Pindar not so far acknowledged in modern scholarship.

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9780199298280 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, July 6, 2006, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: Simon Hornblower argues for a relationship between Thucydides and Pindar not so far acknowledged in modern scholarship.

Diachronic Dialogues: Authority And Continuity In Homer And The Homeric Tradition

Product Description: In Diachronic Dialogues: Authority and Continuity in Homer and the Homeric Tradition author Ahuvia Kahane considers central aspects of Homer's poetry, such as truth, knowledge, gender, virtue and the heroic code, authorship, memory and song, diction and formula...read more

By Ahuvia Kahane

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9780739111338 | Lexington Books, January 30, 2006, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: In Diachronic Dialogues: Authority and Continuity in Homer and the Homeric Tradition author Ahuvia Kahane considers central aspects of Homer's poetry, such as truth, knowledge, gender, virtue and the heroic code, authorship, memory and song, diction and formula.

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9780739111345 | Lexington Books, December 30, 2005, cover price $34.99 | About this edition: In Diachronic Dialogues: Authority and Continuity in Homer and the Homeric Tradition author Ahuvia Kahane considers central aspects of Homer's poetry, such as truth, knowledge, gender, virtue and the heroic code, authorship, memory and song, diction and formula.

Tradition And Innovation In Hellenistic Poetry

By Marco Fantuzzi and Richard L. Hunter

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9780521835114 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 7, 2005, cover price $135.00

The Tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the Epic Cycle

Presents a challenge to Homer's authority on the history and legends of the Trojan War, placing the Iliad and Odyssey in the larger context of the entire body of Greek epic poetry of the Archaic Age. (view table of contents)

By Jonathan S. Burgess

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9780801866524 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, November 15, 2001, cover price $51.00

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9780801878909 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, December 17, 2003, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: Presents a challenge to Homer's authority on the history and legends of the Trojan War, placing the Iliad and Odyssey in the larger context of the entire body of Greek epic poetry of the Archaic Age.

Stories from the Mountains, Stories from the Sea: The Digressions and Similes of Oppian's Halieutica and the Cynegetica

Product Description: Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sydney, 2001.

By Adam Nicholas Bartley

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9783525252499 | Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Gmbh & Co, July 12, 2003, cover price $94.00 | About this edition: Revision of the author's thesis (Ph.

Tradition and Contexts in the Poetry of Horace

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By Denis Feeney (editor) and Tony Woodman (editor)

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9780521642460 | Cambridge Univ Pr, July 1, 2002, cover price $99.99

Speaking Volumes: Narrative and Intertext in Ovid and Other Latin Poets

Product Description: In a poem written in exile, Ovid pictures his latest book in conversation with his previous volumes, united in the bookcase containing his collected works back in Rome. One can imagine their dialogue - in the protected space of the whispering bookcase - as loaded with allusion and intertextuality...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Alessandro Barchiesi, Matt Fox and Simone Marchesi

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9780715630273 | Bristol Classical Pr, May 1, 2002, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: In a poem written in exile, Ovid pictures his latest book in conversation with his previous volumes, united in the bookcase containing his collected works back in Rome.

Ovid's Literary Loves: Influence and Innovation in the Amores

Product Description: Ovid's poetry has in recent years enjoyed a remarkable renaissance: in particular, there has been a surge of interest in the Heroides, the Fasti, and his exile poetry. Ovid's Literary Loves, by Barbara Weiden Boyd, reopens the Amores for the modern reader...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Barbara Weiden Boyd

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9780472107599 | Univ of Michigan Pr, December 1, 1997, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: Ovid's poetry has in recent years enjoyed a remarkable renaissance: in particular, there has been a surge of interest in the Heroides, the Fasti, and his exile poetry.

The Child and the Hero: Coming of Age in Catullus and Vergil

Product Description: Many generations of readers have noticed the prominence given to children and to heroes--usually young men--in the poems of Vergil and his contemporary Catullus. But until now it has not always been clear why Vergil and Catullus employ these characters, or what readers are to make of these sometimes odd figures...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Mark Petrini

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9780472104604 | Univ of Michigan Pr, June 1, 1997, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: Many generations of readers have noticed the prominence given to children and to heroes--usually young men--in the poems of Vergil and his contemporary Catullus.

Chaucer's French Contemporaries: The Poetry/Poetics of Self and Tradition

Product Description: This collection grows out of the Spring 1987 issue of "Studies in the Literary Imagination". Along with the original 6 essays, now revised for book publication, this volume adds 8 new examinations of the connections between the authors of medieval France and England...read more

By R. Barton Palmer (editor)

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9780404632106 | Ams Pr Inc, August 1, 1996, cover price $69.50 | About this edition: This collection grows out of the Spring 1987 issue of "Studies in the Literary Imagination".

History and Literature in Late Antiquity and the Early Medieval West: Studies in Intertextuality

Product Description: This work sets out the ways in which late antiquity and early medieval authors were shaped intellectually by a wide range of sources, many now unfamiliar to modern readers. It also covers the manner in which the texts accessed by such writers were themselves taken over or recast in various ways...read more

By Neil Wright

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9780860784951 | Variorum, November 1, 1995, cover price $154.95 | About this edition: This work sets out the ways in which late antiquity and early medieval authors were shaped intellectually by a wide range of sources, many now unfamiliar to modern readers.

Hesiod and Aeschylus

Product Description: Friedrich Solmsen provides a new approach to Hesiod's personality in this book by distinguishing Hesiod's own contributions to Greek mythology and theology from the traditional aspects of his poetry. Hesiod's vision of a better world, expressed in religious language and imagery, pictures the savagery and brutality of the earlier days of Greece giving way to an order of justice...read more

By Friedrich Solmsen

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9780801482748 | Reprint edition (Cornell Univ Pr, September 1, 1995), cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Friedrich Solmsen provides a new approach to Hesiod's personality in this book by distinguishing Hesiod's own contributions to Greek mythology and theology from the traditional aspects of his poetry.

The Song of Troilus: Lyric Authority in the Medieval Book

By Thomas C. Stillinger

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9780812231441 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, December 1, 1992, cover price $49.95

Chaucer and Gower: Difference, Mutuality, Exchange

By Robert F. Yeager (editor)

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9780920604540 | Univ of Victoria Dept of English, August 1, 1991, cover price $10.00

Juvenal's Use of Martial's Epigrams: A Study of Literary Influence/Classical and Byzantine Monographs

By Robert E. Colton

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9789025609849 | Adolf m Hakkert, June 1, 1991, cover price $99.00

Boccaccio, Beauvau and Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde : Four Perspectives on Influence

Product Description: Book by Hanly, Michael G.

By Michael G. Hanly

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9780937664834 | Pilgrim Books, February 1, 1991, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Book by Hanly, Michael G.

Pindar and Homer

By Frank J. Nisetich

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9780801838200 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, September 1, 1989, cover price $25.00

The Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Epic Tradition

Product Description: GREAT STUDY

By Charles Rowan Beye

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9780877521877, titled "The Iliad, the Odyssey and the Epic Tradition" | Gordian Pr Inc, January 1, 1977, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: GREAT STUDY

9780844616742 | Peter Smith Pub Inc, June 1, 1966, cover price $20.00

Greek Tradition: Essays in the Reconstruction of Ancient Thought

Product Description: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process...read more

By J. A. Thompson

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9780911858235 | Paul P Appel Pub, June 1, 1971, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.

Allegory and Mirror: Tradition and Structure in Middle English Literature

Product Description: Book by Wimsatt, James I.

By James I. Wimsatt

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9780672635021 | Irvington Pub, June 1, 1970, cover price $26.50 | About this edition: Book by Wimsatt, James I.

Tradition and Originality in Roman Poetry

Product Description: This book sets out to reveal the essential nature of Roman poetry and the ways in which individual, highly conscious of inheriting an identifiable tradition, managed to achieve an originality of their own. Williams focuses particularly on the Augustan poets, with all quotations given in Latin and English...read more

By Gordon Willis Williams

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9780198143475 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 9, 1987, cover price $150.00 | About this edition: This book sets out to reveal the essential nature of Roman poetry and the ways in which individual, highly conscious of inheriting an identifiable tradition, managed to achieve an originality of their own.

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