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Catullus and his World - T. P. Wiseman - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Catullus and his World - T. P. Wiseman - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

This book is an attempt to read the poems of Gaius Valerius Catullus in his own context; to look at the poet and his works against the cultural realities of the first century BC as recent advances in historical research allow us to understand them. Catullus' own social background, the circumstances of the literary life of his time, the true extent of his works and the variety of audiences he addressed - these and other questions are explored by Professor Wiseman with new and startling results. Contemporary high society and politics are illustrated through Clodia and Caelius Rufus, considered not as mere adjuncts to Catullus' story but as significant historical personalities in their own right. A final chapter on nineteenth- and twentieth-century interpretations of Catullus' world shows how anachronistic preconceptions have prevented a proper understanding of it, and made this radical reappraisal necessary. Anyone with a serious interest in Latin literature or Roman history will want to read this book. Students in the upper levels of school or at university will find it essential background reading to their work on Catullus and Cicero's Pro Caelio.

DKK 429.00
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Catullan Questions Revisited - T. P. Wiseman - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Catullan Questions Revisited - T. P. Wiseman - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Catullan Questions Revisited offers a new insight into the brilliant poet who loved an aristocratic girl, attacked Julius Caesar and became a satirical playwright. Insisting on scrupulous use of the primary sources, Peter Wiseman combines textual, historical and even archaeological evidence to explode the orthodox view of Catullus'' life and work. ''Lesbia'' was not a woman in her thirties, as has been believed for 150 years, but a girl only recently married; Catullus'' poems were written for performance, private or public, and it was only in 54 BC, at what he saw as the turning-point of his life, that he collected their texts into a sequence of probably seven volumes. His subsequent literary career, equally successful but much less well attested, was as a ''mime''-dramatist. This book is intended for everyone who is interested in poetry and history, and who does not believe that literary texts exist in a vacuum.

DKK 759.00
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Writing Metamorphosis in the English Renaissance - Susan Wiseman - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Writing Metamorphosis in the English Renaissance - Susan Wiseman - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Wiseman explores the transformations of fantastic creatures including werewolves and wild children in English Renaissance writing. Analysing a variety of texts, from Shakespeare's The Tempest to court records, Writing Metamorphosis in the English Renaissance argues that the seventeenth century is marked by concentration on the potential of the human to change or be changed.

DKK 344.00
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Writing Metamorphosis in the English Renaissance - Susan Wiseman - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Writing Metamorphosis in the English Renaissance - Susan Wiseman - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Taking Ovid''s Metamorphoses as its starting point, this book analyses fantastic creatures including werewolves, bear-children and dragons in English literature from the Reformation to the late seventeenth century. Susan Wiseman tracks the idea of transformation through classical, literary, sacred, physiological, folkloric and ethnographic texts. Under modern disciplinary protocols these areas of writing are kept apart, but this study shows that in the Renaissance they were woven together by shared resources, frames of knowledge and readers. Drawing on a rich collection of critical and historical studies and key philosophical texts including Descartes'' Meditations, Wiseman outlines the importance of metamorphosis as a significant literary mode. Her examples range from canonical literature, including Shakespeare''s A Midsummer Night''s Dream and The Tempest, to Thomas Browne on dragons, together with popular material, arguing that the seventeenth century is marked by concentration on the potential of the human, and the world, to change or be changed.

DKK 858.00
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Selections from the Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley - Percy Bysshe Shelley - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Selections from the Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley - Percy Bysshe Shelley - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Edited by the historian Alexander Hamilton Thompson, this volume offers an introduction to the poetical works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. The selection, compiled and introduced by Professor Hamilton, are supplemented with extensive notes shedding light on the circumstances of the poems and elucidating the references, literary and otherwise, which proliferated Shelley's works.

DKK 344.00
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