The first collection dedicated to the subject of expurgation in the classics, exploring the strategies used to deal with obscene and other textual material in conflict with Christian and other post-classical values.
Ancient and Medieval Literary Texts Often Call Attention to Their Existence as Physical Objects. Shane Butler Helps us to Understand Why. Arguing that Writing has Always been as Much a Material SStruggle as an Intellectual One, The Matter of the Page Offers Timely Lessons for th…
Thinking of ancient texts as literature. Memory, narration, identity: Exodus as a political myth / Jan Assmann -- Narrative poetics and Hebrew narrative: a survey / Joachim Vette -- Is there a universal genre of "drama"? conjectures on the basis of "dramatic" texts in Old Testam…
Narrative is an important element in our daily life and the novel is arguably the most popular genre of our times. The theory of narrative or narratology, which was developed in the 1960s, has helped us towards a better understanding of the how and why of narrative. Narratology …
"The protean Virgil argues that when we try to understand how and why different readers have responded differently to the same text over time, we should take into account the physical form in which they read the text as well as the text itself. Using Virgil's poetry as a case st…