A choral interlude distinctive to Greek Old Comedy, the parabasis treats a variety of literary and political topics that critics have generally considered tangential to the themes of the play in which it appears. Reading closely each of Aristophanes' comedies, Thomas K. Hubbard …
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"This book takes up key meta-questions in the humanities, with focus on contemporary literary studies, philosophically examines the nature of knowledge therein and addresses the effervescent question of 'relevance.' Its title is a variation on that of M. H. Abrams's collection o…
By examining Djuna Barnes' work, this title raises questions about biography and feminist criticism, identity and authority, and modernist canon formation. It shows how throughout Barnes' corpus the repetition of texts forces us to rethink the relationship between authority and …
In her re-examination of Djuna Barnes' work, the author raises timely questions about Barnes, biography and feminist criticism, identity and authority, and modernist canon formation. Through close readings of Barnes' manuscripts, primary and critical texts, Caselli tackles one o…
"In Diachronic Dialogues: Authority and Continuity in Homer and the Homeric Tradition Ahuvia Kahane considers central aspects of Homer's poetry: truth, knowledge, gender, virtue and the heroic code, authorship, memory and song, diction, and formula. Kahane makes the case for per…
