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Homer Between History And Fiction In Imperial Greek Literature, Lawrence Kim
Homer Between History And Fiction In Imperial Greek Literature, Lawrence Kim
Lawrence Kim
Did Homer tell the ‘truth' about the Trojan War? If so, how much, and if not, why not? The issue was hardly academic to the Greeks living under the Roman Empire, given the centrality of both Homer, the father of Greek culture, and the Trojan War, the event that inaugurated Greek history, to conceptions of Imperial Hellenism. This book examines four Greek texts of the Imperial period that address the topic – Strabo's Geography, Dio of Prusa's Trojan Oration, Lucian's novella True Stories, and Philostratus' fictional dialogue Heroicus – and shows how their imaginative explorations of Homer and his relationship …
Piece For The End Of Time: In Defence Of Musical Ontology, Andrew Kania
Piece For The End Of Time: In Defence Of Musical Ontology, Andrew Kania
Andrew Kania
Aaron Ridley has recently attacked the study of musical ontology—an apparently fertile area in the philosophy of music. I argue here that Ridley’s arguments are unsound. There are genuinely puzzling ontological questions about music, many of which are closely related to questions of musical value. While it is true that musical ontology must be descriptive of pre-existing musical practices and that some debates, such as that over the creatability of musical works, have little consequence for questions of musical value, none of this implies that these debates themselves are without value.
The Mediterranean Before Modernity, James Keenan
The Mediterranean Before Modernity, James Keenan
James G. Keenan
"The Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History" by Peregrine Horden and Nicholas Purcell is reviewed.
"Some Perilous Stuff": What The Religious Reviewers Really Said About The Scarlet Letter, Lisa Smith
"Some Perilous Stuff": What The Religious Reviewers Really Said About The Scarlet Letter, Lisa Smith
Lisa Smith
No abstract provided.
American Literary Studies: A Methodological Reader, Michael Elliott, Claudia Stokes
American Literary Studies: A Methodological Reader, Michael Elliott, Claudia Stokes
Claudia Stokes
American Literary Studies: A Methodological Reader gathers together leading scholars of American literature to address the questions of methodology that have invigorated and divided their field: the rise of interdisciplinarity and the wealth of theoretical methods now available to the critic of American literature. Their engagement with these issues takes a unique form in this book: Each scholar has chosen a methodologically innovative essay, which he or she then introduces, explaining why it is both exemplary in its approach and central to the issues that most engage American literary scholarship today. The book includes both an introduction to the controversial …
Writers In Retrospect: The Rise Of American Literary History, 1875-1910, Claudia Stokes
Writers In Retrospect: The Rise Of American Literary History, 1875-1910, Claudia Stokes
Claudia Stokes
In the aftermath of America's centennial celebrations of 1876, readers developed an appetite for chronicles of the nation's past. Born amid this national vogue, the field of American literary history was touted as the balm for numerous "ills"—from burgeoning immigration to American anti-intellectualism to demanding university administrators—and enjoyed immense popularity between 1880 and 1910. In the first major analysis of the field's early decades, Claudia Stokes offers important insights into the practices, beliefs, and values that shaped the emerging discipline and have continued to shape it for the last century. She considers particular personalities—including Thomas Wentworth Higginson, William Dean Howells, …
The Solace Of Bad Form: Tim O'Brien's Postmodernist Revisions Of Vietnam In "Speaking Of Courage", Michael Kaufmann
The Solace Of Bad Form: Tim O'Brien's Postmodernist Revisions Of Vietnam In "Speaking Of Courage", Michael Kaufmann
Michael E. Kaufmann
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Festivals And Plays In Late Medieval Britain, Clifford Davidson
Festivals And Plays In Late Medieval Britain, Clifford Davidson
Clifford Davidson
The most comprehensive survey to date of medieval festival playing in Britain, this study presents an inclusive view of the drama in the British Isles. It offers detailed readings of individual plays-including the little studied Bodley plays, among others - as well as a summary of what is known of their production. Organized around the rituals of the liturgical seasons, the book clarifies the relationship between liturgical feast and dramatic celebration.