Forms of Attention: Time and Narrative in Ecphrasis -- When Size Matters: Erotics, the Epyllion, and Colluthus' Rape of Helen -- In the Beginning -- Preposterous Poetics and the Erotics of Death -- Strange Dogs: Joseph and Aseneth and The Dynamics of Transformation -- Life Forms…
How does literary form change as Christianity and rabbinic Judaism take shape? What is the impact of literary tradition and the new pressures of religious thinking? Tracing a journey over the first millennium that includes works in Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic, this book cha…
"How does literary form change as Christianity and rabbinic Judaism take shape? What is the impact of literary tradition and the new pressures of religious thinking? Tracing a journey over the first millennium that includes works in Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic, this book ch…
"How does literary form change as Christianity and rabbinic Judaism take shape? What is the impact of literary tradition and the new pressures of religious thinking? Tracing a journey over the first millennium that includes works in Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic, this book ch…
Thirteen essays by senior international experts on Greek tragedy take a look at Sophocles' dramas. They reassess their crucial role in the creation of the tragic repertoire, in the idea of the tragic canon in antiquity, and in the making and infinite re-creation of the tragic tr…
"Thirteen essays by senior international experts on Greek tragedy take a fresh look at Sophocles' dramas. They reassess their crucial role in the creation of the tragic repertoire, in the idea of the tragic canon in antiquity, and in the making and infinite recreation of the tra…
The Victorian era was the high point of literary tourism. Writers such as Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Sir Walter Scott became celebrities, and readers trekked far and wide for a glimpse of the places where their heroes wrote and thought, walked and talked. Even Shakespear…
The Victorian era was the high point of literary tourism. Here, Goldhill makes a pilgrimage to Sir Walter Scott's baronial mansion, Wordsworth's cottage in the Lake District, the Brontë's parsonage, Shakespeare's birthplace, and Freud's office in Hampstead.
Ancient drama in music for the modern stage
by Goldhill, Simon, Cowan, Robert, Walsh, Stephen, Belina, Anastasia, Forment, Bruno, Beard, David, Strohm, Reinhard, Savage, Roger, Heller, Wendy Beth, Ograjenšek, Suzana, Ewans, Michael, Attfield, Nicholas, Beta, Simon, Burden, Michael, Geary, Jason, Ketterer, Robert C., Napolitano, Michele, Thorp, Jennifer, Wolff, Christian, Wygant, Amy