Literary Criticism


Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy

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Hardback Feb 2012 ISBN13: 9780199796274ISBN10: 0199796270 One of the best-known interpreters of classical literature today presents a revolutionary take on the work of Sophocles and on how our understanding of tragedy has been shaped by our literary past

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African Athena

New Agendas
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Hardback Jan 2012 ISBN13: 9780199595006ISBN10: 0199595003 Re-opens the debate and controversy provoked by Martin Bernal's Black Athena, while changing the terms of that debate and focusing on the implications of Greek, Roman, African, and Middle Eastern intersections.

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Two Thousand Years of Solitude

Exile After Ovid
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Hardback Jan 2012 ISBN13: 9780199603848ISBN10: 0199603847 Interdisciplinary study of reception of Ovid's exile and its impact.

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The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite

Introduction, Text, and Commentary
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Paperback Dec 2011 ISBN13: 9780199639496ISBN10: 0199639493 Full commentary draws upon linguistic, literary, historical, and archaeological evidence to throw light on the text and the questions it raises.

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Sibylline Sisters

Virgil's Presence in Contemporary Women's Writing
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Hardback Nov 2011 ISBN13: 9780199582969ISBN10: 0199582963 A comprehensive look at contemporary women writers (Margaret Drabble, A. S. Byatt, Ruth Fainlight, Michele Roberts, Carol Ann Duffy, U. A. Fanthorpe, Josephine Balmer, Eavan Boland, Joyce Carol Oates, Janet Lembke, Ursula Le Guinand, Christa Wolf, Helene Cixous, Charlotte Delbo and Monique Wittig) and their use of Virgil

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Work in Progress

Literary Revision as Social Performance in Ancient Rome
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Hardback Nov 2011 ISBN13: 9780199837519ISBN10: 0199837511 First substantive study of the cultural and social importance of literary revision among ancient Greek and Roman authors
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From Gibbon to Auden

Essays on the Classical Tradition
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Paperback Sep 2011 ISBN13: 9780199856947ISBN10: 019985694X Includes a new essay by the author on Berlioz and Virgil
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Homer and the Odyssey

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Paperback Sep 2011 ISBN13: 9780199542857ISBN10: 0199542856 A revised and much expanded translation of the original French text.
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Homer and the Odyssey

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Hardback Sep 2011 ISBN13: 9780199542840ISBN10: 0199542848 A revised and much expanded translation of the original French text.
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Commentary on Silius Italicus, Punica 7

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Hardback Sep 2011 ISBN13: 9780199570935ISBN10: 0199570930 A comprehensive introduction and, within the commentary, a series of essays on literary and historical topics to support the more complex passages of text.
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