The Classical Tradition: Greek and Roman Influences on Western Literature
Gilbert Highet and Harold Bloom
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Originally published in 1949, Gilbert Highet's seminal The Classical Tradition is a herculean feat...
Translating Early Medieval Poetry - Transformation, Reception, Interpretation
Tom Birkett and Kirsty March-Lyons
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The first decades of the twenty-first century have seen an unprecedented level of creative...
Africa39: New Writing from Africa South of the Sahara
Wole Soyinda and Ellah Wakatama Allfrey
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Africa has produced some of the best writing of the twentieth century from Chinua Achebe, Ayi Kwei...
Three Novels by Cesar Aira
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Three novels by Cesar Aira combines three short novels by the cult Argentinian writer in one...
Geoffrey Chaucer: A New Introduction
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Originally writing over 600 years ago, Geoffrey Chaucer is today enjoying a global renaissance. Why...
Amazons, Wives, Nuns, and Witches: Women and the Catholic Church in Colonial Brazil, 1500-1822
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The Roman Catholic church played a dominant role in colonial Brazil, so that women's lives in the...
Blaeu: Atlas Maior
Joan Blaeu and Peter Van Der Krogt
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World class: The finest atlas ever publishedSuperlatives tend to fail in face of Joan Blaeu s Atlas...
Catiline's Conspiracy, the Jugurthine War, Histories
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Sallust was one of the first classical historians to move beyond a dry recitation of fact to paint...
The Universal Tone
Ashley Kahn, Carlos Santana and Hal Miller
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The intimate and long-awaited memoir of guitar legend Carlos Santana. In 1967 at the Fillmore...