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Ancient Rome and Modern America
Margaret Malamud
Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN : 9781405139335
Ancient Rome and Modern America explores the vital role the narratives and images of Rome have played in America’s understanding of itself and its history.
Places America’s response to Rome in a historical context, from the ...
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Petronius
Jonathan Prag
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Ian Repath
Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN : 9781405156875
Petronius: A Handbook unravels the mysteries of the Satyrica, one of the greatest literary works that antiquity has bequeathed to the modern world. Includes a dozen original essays by a team of leading Petronius and Roman history scholars Features ...
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Basic Elements of Narrative
David Herman
Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN : 9781405141536
Basic Elements of Narrative outlines a way of thinking about what narrative is and how to identify its basic elements across various media, introducing key concepts developed by previous theorists and contributing original ideas to the growing body ...
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Sweet Violence
Terry Eagleton
Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN : 9780631233602
Terry Eagleton's Tragedy provides a major critical and analytical account of the concept of 'tragedy' from its origins in the Ancient world right down to the twenty-first century. A major new intellectual endeavour from one of the world's finest, ...
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Tragedy
Rebecca Bushnell
Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN : 9781405130219
Tragedy: A Short Introduction reinvigorates the genre for readers who are eager to embrace it, but who often find the traditional masterpieces too distant from their own language and world. Argues that today’s most popular television shows ...
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