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Aristophanes and the Cloak of Comedy Affect, Aesthetics, and the Canon

Telo Mario

ISBN: HB: 9780226309699, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The Greek playwright Aristophanes (active 427-386 BCE) is often portrayed as the poet who brought stability, discipline, and sophistication to the rowdy theatrical genre of Old Comedy. In this groundbreaking book, situated within the affective turn i...

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The French List

Abysses

Quignard Pascal

ISBN: HB: 9780857422446, Seagull Books, May 2015
256 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Prolific essayist, translator, and critic Pascal Quignard has described his Last Kingdom series as something unique. It consists, he says, "neither of philosophical argumentation, nor short learned essays, nor novelistic narration", but comes, rather...

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Poetry

Animal Part Human and Other Animals in the Poetic Imagination

Payne Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780226272320, ISBN: HB: 9780226650845, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

How can literary imagination help us engage with the lives of other animals? The question represents one of the liveliest areas of inquiry in the humanities, and Mark Payne seeks to answer it by exploring the relationship between human beings and oth...

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Philosophy

Animal Claim Sensibility and the Creaturely Voice

Menely Tobias

ISBN: PB: 9780226239392, ISBN: HB: 9780226239255, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

During the eighteenth century, some of the most popular British poetry showed a responsiveness to animals that anticipated the later language of animal rights. Such poems were widely cited in later years by legislators advocating animal welfare laws...

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Ancient World

Alcman and the Cosmos of Sparta

Ferrari Gloria

ISBN: PB: 9780226668680, ISBN: HB: 9780226668673, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
192 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 20 colour plates, 2 halftones

The "Partheneion", or "maiden song", composed in the seventh century BCE by the Spartan poet Alcman, is the earliest substantial example of a choral lyric. A provocative reinterpretation of the "Partheneion" and its broader context, "Alcman and the C...

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Film Studies

Archaeology of Sympathy The Sentimental Mode in Literature and Cinema

Chandler James

ISBN: HB: 9780226034959, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
392 pp., 23x15 cm, 68 halftones

In the middle of the eighteenth century, something new made itself felt in European culture – a tone or style that came to be called the sentimental. The sentimental mode went on to shape not just literature, art, music, and cinema, but people's very...

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The Complete Greek Tragedies

Aeschylus I The Persians, The Seven Against Thebes, The Suppliant Maidens, Prometheus Bound

Grene David, Lattimore Richmond, Griffith Mark, Most Glenn W.

ISBN: PB: 9780226311449, ISBN: HB: 9780226311432, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
256 pp., 21.6x14 cm

"Aeschylus I" contains "The Persians", translated by Seth Benardete; "The Seven Against Thebes", translated by David Grene; "The Suppliant Maidens", translated by Seth Benardete; and "Prometheus Bound", translated by David Grene. Sixty years ago, the...

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The Complete Greek Tragedies

Aeschylus II The Oresteia

Grene David, Lattimore Richmond, Griffith Mark, Most Glenn W.

ISBN: PB: 9780226311470, ISBN: HB: 9780226311463, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
192 pp., 21.6x14 cm

"Aeschylus II" contains "The Oresteia", translated by Richmond Lattimore, and fragments of "Proteus", translated by Mark Griffith. Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedie...

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Culture Studies

Afghanistan in Ink Literature Between Diaspora and Nation

Green Nile, Arbabzadah Nushin

ISBN: HB: 9781849042048, Hurst Publishers, February 2013
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Afghanistan in Ink" uses a wide and largely unknown corpus of twentieth century Afghan Dari and Pashto literature to show not only how Afghans have reflected on their modern history, but also how the state has repeatedly sough...

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Accommodated Animal Cosmopolity in Shakespearean Locales

Shannon Laurie

ISBN: PB: 9780226924175, ISBN: HB: 9780226924168, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
312 pp., 23x15 cm, 25 halftones, 4 colour illus.

Shakespeare wrote of lions, shrews, horned toads, curs, mastiffs, and hellhounds. But the word "animal" itself only appears very rarely in his work, which was in keeping with sixteenth-century usage. As Laurie Shannon reveals in "The Accommodated Ani...

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