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  • Greek and Roman Antiquity in First World War Poetry

    Making Connections

    by Lorna Hardwick, Stephen Harrison, Elizabeth Vandiver ...
    Series series Oxford Classical Reception Commentaries
    Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, and Charles Sorley all died in the First Word War. They came from diverse social, educational, and cultural backgrounds, but for all of the writers, engagement with Greek and Roman antiquity was decisive in shaping their war poetry. The world views and cultural hinterlands of Brooke and Sorley were framed by the Greek and Latin texts they had studied ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Rupert Brooke, Charles Sorley, Isaac Rosenberg, and Wilfred Owen

    Classical Connections

    by Lorna Hardwick, Stephen Harrison, Elizabeth Vandiver ...
    Series series Oxford Classical Reception Commentaries
    Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, and Charles Sorley all died in the First Word War. They came from diverse social, educational, and cultural backgrounds, but for all of the writers, engagement with Greek and Roman antiquity was decisive in shaping their war poetry. The world views and cultural hinterlands of Brooke and Sorley were framed by the Greek and Latin texts they had studied ... Read more

    $111.99 CAD

  • A Companion to Classical Receptions

    Edited by Lorna Hardwick, Christopher Stray ...
    Examining the profusion of ways in which the arts, culture, and thought of Greece and Rome have been transmitted, interpreted, adapted and used, A Companion to Classical Receptions explores the impact of this phenomenon on both ancient and later societies.Provides a comprehensive introduction and overview of classical reception - the interpretation of classical art, culture, and thought in later ... Read more

    $60.99 CAD

  • Classics in the Modern World

    A Democratic Turn?

    Edited by Lorna Hardwick, Stephen Harrison ...
    Series series Classical Presences
    Classics in the Modern World brings together a collection of distinguished international contributors to discuss the features and implications of a 'democratic turn' in modern perceptions of ancient Greece and Rome. It examines how Greek and Roman material has been involved with issues of democracy, both in political culture and in the greater diffusion of classics in recent times outside the ... Read more

    $131.99 CAD

  • Classics in Post-Colonial Worlds

    Edited by Lorna Hardwick, Carol Gillespie ...
    Series series Classical Presences
    Classical material was traditionally used to express colonial authority, but it was also appropriated by imperial subjects to become first a means of challenging colonialism and then a rich field for creating cultural identities that blend the old and the new. Nobel prize-winners such as Derek Walcott and Seamus Heaney have rewritten classical material in their own cultural idioms while public ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • Remaking the Classics

    Literature, Genre and Media in Britain 1800-2000

    by Amanda Wrigley, Elizabeth Vandiver, Leanne Hunnings, Ruth Hazel, Stephen Harrison, Professor Lorna Hardwick, Dr. Christopher Stray, Deborah Roberts, Professor Sheila Murnaghan ...
    This important collection of essays both contributes to the expanding field of classical reception studies and seeks to extend it. Focusing on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain, it looks at a range of different genres (epic, novel, lyric, tragedy, political pamphlet). Within the published texts considered, the usual range of genres dealt with elsewhere is extended by chapters on books for ... Read more

    $210.99 CAD

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    An Incomplete History of All the Great Books You'll Never Read

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    A " clever and highly entertaining" look at books through history that were stolen, went missing, or just never got written ( The New York Times).In an age when deleted scenes from Adam Sandler movies are saved, it's sobering to realize that some of the world's great prose and poetry has gone missing. This witty and unique new book rectifies that wrong. Part detective story, part history, part ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Poetry

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Professor Bernard O'Donoghue ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Poetry, arguably, has a greater range of conceptual meaning than perhaps any other term in English. At the most basic level everyone can recognise it--it is a kind of literature that uses special linguistic devices of organization and expression for aesthetic effect. However, far grander claims have been made for poetry than this--such as Shelley's that the poets 'are the unacknowledged ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Poetry: The Basics

    by Jeffrey Wainwright ...
    Series series The Basics
    Now in its fourth edition, Poetry: The Basics remains an engaging exploration of the exciting and diverse world of poetry. Jeffrey Wainwright’s accessible introduction demystifies poetic forms and traditions, which can at first seem bewildering.Drawing on examples ranging from Chaucer to children's rhymes, Cole Porter to Dylan Thomas, and from around the English-speaking world, it shows how any ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Selected Literary Essays

    by C. S. Lewis ...
    Selected Literary Essays includes over twenty of C. S. Lewis’s most important literary essays, written between 1932 and 1962. The topics discussed in this volume range from Chaucer to Kipling, from "The literary impact of the authorized version" to "Psycho-analysis and literary criticism," to Shakespeare and Bunyan, and Sir Walter Scott and William Morris. Common to each essay, however, are the ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Homer-Haunted

    The Many Afterlives of an Ancient Poet

    by Henry Power ...
    ''One of the many reasons I love this book is that it shows us that these old narratives are of a certain time and place, but they are also timeless.' Elif Shafak'It's rich and beautiful and strange' Rory Stewart, The Rest Is Politics'This is such a brilliantly told story of Homer-obsessives through the ages that, by the end, you're as hooked on Homer as they were' Frank SkinnerThis i... ... Read more

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  • Timon of Athens: The Oxford Shakespeare

    by William Shakespeare ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    The Oxford Shakespeare General Editor: Stanley Wells The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers - A new, modern-spelling text, collated and edited from all existing printings - On-page commentary and notes explain meaning, staging, language, and allusions - Detailed introduction provides a ... Read more

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