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Carnivalizing Difference
Bakhtin and the Other
Series: Routledge Harwood Studies in Russian and European Literature
It has seemed at times that there is no neutral territory between those who see Bakhtin as the practitioner of a kind of neo-Marxist, or at least materialist, deconstruction and those who look at the same texts and see a defender of traditional, liberal humanist values and classical conceptions of...
To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge
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Latin Verse Satire
An Anthology and Reader
A wide variety of texts by the Latin satirists are presented here in a fully loaded resource to provide an innovative reading of satire's relation to Roman ideology. Brimming with notes, commentaries, essays and texts in translation, this book succeeds in its mission to help the student understand...
Published August 8th 2005 by Routledge
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Latin Erotic Elegy
An Anthology and Reader
This indispensable volume provides a complete course on Latin erotic elegy, allowing students to trace a coherent narrative of the genre's rise and fall, and to understand its relationship to the changes that marked the collapse of the Roman republic, and the founding of the empire.The book begins...
Published March 13th 2002 by Routledge
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Russian Literature and the Classics
Series: Routledge Harwood Studies in Russian and European Literature
Russian Literature and the Classics attempts to fill a gap. To date there has been no book-length, systematic study of the impact of antiquity on Russian literature and culture. While by no means claiming to offer a comprehensive approach, the authors focus on various aspects of the influence which...
Published February 18th 1996 by Routledge
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Lyric Texts and Lyric Consciousness
The Birth of a Genre from Archaic Greece to Augustan Rome
Lyric Texts and Lyric Consciousness presents a model for studying the history of lyric as a genre. Prof Miller draws a distinction between the work of the Greek lyrists and the more condensed, personal poetry that we associate with lyric. He then confronts the theoretical issues and presents a...
Published May 4th 1994 by Routledge