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Songbook How Lyrics Became Poetry in Medieval Europe

Galvez Marisa

ISBN: PB: 9780226270050, ISBN: HB: 9780226280516, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 33 halftones, 7 colour illus.

Today we usually think of a book of poems as composed by a poet, rather than assembled or adapted by a network of poets and readers. But the earliest European vernacular poetries challenge these assumptions. Medieval songbooks remind us how lyric poe...

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Cervantes' "Don Quixote"

Gonzalez Echevarria Roberto

ISBN: PB: 9780300198645, Yale University Press, May 2015
384 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 22 black&white illus.

The novel "Don Quixote", written in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, is widely considered to be one of the greatest fictional works in the entire canon of Western literature. At once farcical and deepl...

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Why X Matters

Why the Romantics Matter

Gay Peter

ISBN: HB: 9780300144291, Yale University Press, February 2015
224 pp., 19.7x13.3 cm

With his usual wit and elan, esteemed historian Peter Gay enters the contentious, long-standing debates over the romantic period. Here, in this concise and inviting volume, he reformulates the definition of romanticism and provides a fresh account of...

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War on Words Slavery, Race, and Free Speech in American Literature

Gilmore Michael T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226101699, ISBN: HB: 9780226294131, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
344 pp., 23x15 cm

How did slavery and race impact American literature in the nineteenth century? In this ambitious book, Michael T. Gilmore argues that they were the carriers of linguistic restriction, and writers from Frederick Douglass to Stephen Crane wrestled with...

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Dream in Shakespeare From Metaphor to Metamorphosis

Garber Marjorie

ISBN: PB: 9780300195439, Yale University Press, August 2013
248 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Dream is a central image for Shakespeare, encompassing at once the terrors of the irrational and the creative powers of the imagination – one's deepest fears and highest aspirations. Used in the early plays as a verbal or structural device, dream bec...

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The Complete Greek Tragedies

Aeschylus I The Persians, The Seven Against Thebes, The Suppliant Maidens, Prometheus Bound

Grene David, Lattimore Richmond, Griffith Mark, Most Glenn W.

ISBN: PB: 9780226311449, ISBN: HB: 9780226311432, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
256 pp., 21.6x14 cm

"Aeschylus I" contains "The Persians", translated by Seth Benardete; "The Seven Against Thebes", translated by David Grene; "The Suppliant Maidens", translated by Seth Benardete; and "Prometheus Bound", translated by David Grene. Sixty years ago, the...

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The Complete Greek Tragedies

Aeschylus II The Oresteia

Grene David, Lattimore Richmond, Griffith Mark, Most Glenn W.

ISBN: PB: 9780226311470, ISBN: HB: 9780226311463, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
192 pp., 21.6x14 cm

"Aeschylus II" contains "The Oresteia", translated by Richmond Lattimore, and fragments of "Proteus", translated by Mark Griffith. Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedie...

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The Complete Greek Tragedies

Greek Tragedies 1 Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Prometheus Bound; Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Antigone; Euripides: Hippolytus

Griffith Mark, Most Glenn W., Grene David, Lattimore Richmond

ISBN: PB: 9780226035284, ISBN: HB: 9780226035147, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
328 pp., 21.6x14 cm

"Greek Tragedies, Volume I" contains Aeschylus's "Agamemnon",‌ translated by Richmond Lattimore; Aeschylus's "Prometheus Bound",‌ translated by David Grene; Sophocles's "Oedipus the King",‌ translated by David Grene; Sophocles's "Antigone",‌ translat...

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The Complete Greek Tragedies

Greek Tragedies 2 Aeschylus: The Libation Bearers; Sophocles: Electra; Euripides: Iphigenia among the Taurians, Electra, The Trojan Women

Griffith Mark, Most Glenn W., Grene David, Lattimore Richmond

ISBN: PB: 9780226035598, ISBN: HB: 9780226035451, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
328 pp., 21.6x14 cm

"Greek Tragedies, Volume II" contains Aeschylus's "The Libation Bearers", translated by Richmond Lattimore; Sophocles's "Electra", translated by David Grene; Euripides's "Iphigenia among the Taurians", translated by Anne Carson; Euripides's "Electra"...

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The Complete Greek Tragedies

Greek Tragedies 3 Aeschylus: The Eumenides; Sophocles: Philoctetes, Oedipus at Colonus; Euripides: The Bacchae, Alcestis

Griffith Mark, Most Glenn W., Grene David, Lattimore Richmond

ISBN: PB: 9780226035932, ISBN: HB: 9780226035765, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
344 pp., 21.6x14 cm

"Greek Tragedies, Volume III" contains Aeschylus's "The Eumenides", translated by Richmond Lattimore; Sophocles's "Philoctetes", translated by David Grene; Sophocles's "Oedipus at Colonus", translated by Robert Fitzgerald; Euripides's "The Bacchae",...

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