This is the first study since that of Paul Vallette in 1908 to place the Latin writer Apuleius in the context of the (Greek) Second Sophistic. The first three chapters elucidate the scholastic goals of both classical cultures during the Roman Imperial period. Apuleius' works sha…
Channel crossings: French and English poetry in dialogue, 1550-2000
by Scott, Clive
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"The embodiment of gender in the sonnet: the performance of the dramatic voice; the inflexions of the self in the voice of lyric verse; the 'landscaping' of nature in the line of verse; the interventions of the translator in the peculiar lives of the prose poem and free verse; t…
"In his wide-ranging studies of poetic borrowing, Serrano uncovers the heterogeneity of influences in canonical texts from Arabic, Chinese and French traditions: Buhturi (821-97) and the Qur'an (7th century CE), Wang Wei (701-61) and the Classic of Poetry (8th century BCE), Step…
"In his wide-ranging studies of poetic borrowing, Serrano uncovers the heterogeneity of influences in canonical texts from Arabic, Chinese and French traditions: Buhturi (821-97) and the Qur'an (7th century CE), Wang Wei (701-61) and the Classic of Poetry (8th century BCE), Step…
Jonathan Sperber's major survey of the history of Europe from the age of the French Revolution and its aftermath up to 1850 offers a continent-wide overview examining broad trends from the Atlantic to the Urals and the Baltic to the Mediterranean.
Jonathan Sperber's major survey of the history of Europe from the age of the French Revolution and its aftermath up to 1850 offers a continent-wide overview examining broad trends from the Atlantic to the Urals and the Baltic to the Mediterranean.
