"In The American Aeneas, John C. Shields exposes a significant cultural blindness within American consciousness. Noting that the biblical myth of Adam has long dominated ideas of what it means to be American, Shields argues that an equally important component of our nation's cul…
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"Mocked with Death makes clear that tragic works need not find their moral and aesthetic conclusion in death and that, in some instances, tragedy consists of living on rather than dying."--Jacket.
"Mocked with Death makes clear that tragic works need not find their moral and aesthetic conclusion in death and that, in some instances, tragedy consists of living on rather than dying."--Jacket.
Wordsworth's Classical Undersong recounts the grammar-school training of a great Romantic revolutionary poet. His teachers were Cambridge graduates, his curriculum the Classics, his academic home a rural secondary school set in the beautiful mountains of the Lake District. But h…
“Classicism and Romanticism in Three Ballets by Frederick Ashton” examines three ballets by the twentieth-century British choreographer Sir Frederick Ashton (1904–1988). I tease apart elements of the aesthetic theories of classicism and romanticism as they manifest in Ashton’s c…
This study shows how Leone de' Sommi (1527-1592), impresario at the court of Mantua, confronts Hebrew tradition with Latin and Italian traditions, both in his literary works and in his theory on theatre, in order to express his understanding of relations between the court and th…
Who Killed Homer? argues that if we lose our knowledge of the Greeks, we lose our understanding of who we are. With straightforward advice and informative reading lists, the authors present a highly useful primer for anyone who wants more knowledge of Classics, and thus of the b…
Who Killed Homer? argues that if we lose our knowledge of the Greeks, we lose our understanding of who we are. With straightforward advice and informative reading lists, the authors present a highly useful primer for anyone who wants more knowledge of Classics, and thus of the b…