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9783631654972 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, December 5, 2015, cover price $72.95
Product Description: Literary critiques of Murasaki Shikibu's eleventh-century The Tale of Genji have often focused on the amorous adventures of its eponymous hero. In this paradigm-shifting analysis of the Genji and other mid-Heian literature, Doris G...read more
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9780824851545 | Univ of Hawaii Pr, September 15, 2015, cover price $59.00 | About this edition: Literary critiques of Murasaki Shikibu's eleventh-century The Tale of Genji have often focused on the amorous adventures of its eponymous hero.
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9781443825542 | Cambridge Scholars Pub, December 1, 2010, cover price $58.95
Product Description: Only four Roman epic poems survive from the Flavian period (69-96 AD): Valerius Flaccus's Argonautica, Statius's Thebaid and Achilleid, and Silius Italicus's Punica. Neil W. Bernstein argues that these poems contain depictions of kinship that are significantly different from earlier epic and examines these representations in the context of the social, political, and aesthetic changes of the early Imperial period...read more
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9780802098795 | Univ of Toronto Pr, August 9, 2008, cover price $73.00 | About this edition: Only four Roman epic poems survive from the Flavian period (69-96 AD): Valerius Flaccus's Argonautica, Statius's Thebaid and Achilleid, and Silius Italicus's Punica.
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9780816649839 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, September 25, 2007, cover price $67.50
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9780816649846 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, September 25, 2007, cover price $24.50
Product Description: This monograph studies two interconnected and crucially important elements in medieval Spanish and Catalan chivalric romances: the influence on the characters and on the plots of both lineal and wider family relationships, and of marriage and the conflicting imperatives that shape it...read more
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9782503509105 | Brepols Pub, March 1, 2001, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: This monograph studies two interconnected and crucially important elements in medieval Spanish and Catalan chivalric romances: the influence on the characters and on the plots of both lineal and wider family relationships, and of marriage and the conflicting imperatives that shape it.
Product Description: This study of the social content of the only surviving Spanish epic provides a means of assessing the motives and intentions of the protagonist and of other characters. Chapters are devoted to such themes as the multifarious significance of kinship and lineage, with special attention to the role of fathers, uncles, and cousins in the world of clan loyalties; amity as a system of fictive kinship, personal honor, and public organization; the importance of women, and the meaning and function of marriage, dowry, and related practices; the emergence of the polity as a rivalry of social, legal, and economic systems; and the implications, within an essentially kin-ordered world, of the poem's notions of shame, honor, status, and social inequality...read more
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9781557530394 | Purdue Univ Pr, May 1, 1993, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: This study of the social content of the only surviving Spanish epic provides a means of assessing the motives and intentions of the protagonist and of other characters.
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9780815622628 | 1 edition (Syracuse Univ Pr, July 1, 1982), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Book by Manheim, Michael
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9780815622772 | Syracuse Univ Pr, June 1, 1982, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Book by Manheim, Michael
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