Studies in Catullan verse : An analysis of word types and patterns in the Polymetra /
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Chronicles the French revolution, from the gathering of the Estates-General, after one-hundred-twenty-five years of silence, to disunity within the Committee of Public Safety, The fall of Robespierre, and the end of the Reign of Terror.
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Originally presented as the author's thesis, Columbia University, 1968. :
1 online resource (xiii, 160 pages) :
Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-160). :
9789004327337 :
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The Pythagorean golden verses : with introduction and commentary /
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This book is a commentary on the Pythagorean Golden Verses , a neglected, but once very popular poem of the Hellenistic period. The goal of the poem is to introduce its readers to the basic moral, religious and philosophical doctrines of the Pythagorean sect and to guide them to spiritual maturity. The first part of the book treats still unresolved introductory matters such as the date, authorship, genre, composition, and the historical locus of the poem. This is followed by a text with translation on facing pages, and a detailed commentary containing a wealth of comparative material from the Greco-Roman period, including early Christianity and Judaism. Particularly valuable are the extensive discussions of the moral topoi and religious themes encountered in the poem.
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Greek text with English translation and commentary.
Revision of J.C. Thom's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, 1990. :
1 online resource (xv, 277 pages) :
Includes bibliographical references (p. 230-244) and indexes. :
9789004295841 :
0927-7633 ; :
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Classical Arabic Verse : History and Theory of 'Arūḍ /
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Offering a vast panorama of the history of Arabic verse in its relation to Semitic verse, this work follows stages of its evolution from parallelistic pattern to the emergence of the three basic rhythms and then of the unique system of 'Arūḍ. It proposes a new interpretation of the original Arabic metrical theory including the famous "circles of Khalī as a kind of generative device and traces its relation to the grammatical and lexicographical theories of al-Khalīl ibn Aḥmad. The monograph provides the largest so far statistical data of the metrical repertory of Classical Arabic poetry, puts forward a hypothesis about the existence of the archaic Hiran metrical school side by side with the Bedouin school and describes main metrical types of Arabic poetry: Bedouin, ḥīran, ('Abbasid), Classical, Andalusian.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004492455
9789004109322
The Virgin and her Lover : Fragments of an Ancient Greek Novel and a Persian Epic Poem /
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Starting from the authors' discovery that the Persian epic poem Vāmiq and ʿAdhrā by ʿUnṣurī (11th century AD) derives from the ancient Greek novel of Mētiokhos and Parthenopē, the book contains critical editions of the Greek and Persian fragments and testimonia, with English translation and comments. The exciting story of the modern recovery of the two texts is told, and the transformations of the productive theme of The ardent lover and the virgin are traced from Greek novel to Persian poem, and through later Persian and Turkish literature. Of particular importance is the authors' attempt to reconstruct the common plot and individual variations, adding a new work to the limited corpus of ancient novels and shedding new light on the genre of Persian epic poetry.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789047402589
9789004132603
Mine and yours are hers : retrieving women's history from rabbinic literature /
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This book discusses the interaction between history, rabbinic literature and feminist studies. Recent approaches to rabbinic literature have overturned the traditional view of these writings and new literary methods were suggested, mostly denying them all historical value. But rabbinic literature constitutes the main source for the lives of Jews in Palestine and Babylonia during the late Roman period, and thus should not be totally rejected. This study suggests a new post-literary approach, id est it discusses the residue of the texts after these have been analyzed and dissected by literary critics. But mainly this is a book about women's history, adopting many assumptions of feminist criticism about the androcentric nature of all ancient texts, and approaches them with due suspicion. The Rabbis treated women differently from the way they treated men. This resulted in the former's marginalization and manipulation by the texts. On the other hand, however, it created an ironic situation whereby principles useful for the recovery of historical information on women, are useless when applied to men. This study describes such principles and demonstrates them with the help of many examples.
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1 online resource (xiii, 346 pages) :
Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-331) and indexes. :
9789004332454 :
0169-734X ; :
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Voies vers l'autre : Dupin - Bonnefoy - Noël - Guillevic /
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Si la poésie contemporaine continue à sonder ses propres carences, à creuser sans répit tout ce qui se prolonge en elle comme absence et manque, ses humbles conquêtes ne s'affir-ment le plus souvent qu'au moment d'une immense dissolution qui oppose à tout geste d'appropriation définitive une communion fuyante, ouverte et vitale. Dans la trame déliée de l'écriture se dessine non point l'image achevée, le reflet immobilisé de l'autre, mais quelques traces de son bref, de son infixable passage qui rejoint dans le monde la sombre vérité, l'en aller irrévocable, de toute existence mortelle. Voie vers l'autre, la poésie demeure de nos jours voie terrestre, voie incertaine, qui arrache l'être à la fixité et aux fixations du moi pour qu'il s'atteigne, sans cesse refait, dans la précarité immédiate de ce qui surgit, s'offre et s'efface. Notre étude interroge les œuvres de quatre poètes qui avancent courageusement dans cette voie, qui mesurent entre soi et l'autre, signe et présence, idée et monde, non seulement ruptures et écarts, mais l'espace tremblant d'un entre-deux susceptible de se muer subitement et comme inauguralement en cri et accès.
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1 online resource (200 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004658417
The Double Voice of Her Desire : Texts by Fokkelien van Dijk-Hemmes /
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To the attentive listener, women's texts speak with a "double voice." Women are quite capable of telling a conventional story, reflecting the expectations of the dominant culture. However, at the same time they tell their own, muted story. Such stories are fragments of resistance, and anyone who has experience of living on the margins can track them down. Such was the view of Fokkelien van Dijk-Hemmes (1943-1994). This is a comprehensive collection of the late scholar's groundbreaking work in feminist biblical interpretation, in English translation. The essays document Van Dijk-Hemmes' development and show how her work relates to contemporary developments in feminist thinking. There is a Foreword by Mieke Bal, an in memoriam by Athalya Brenner, and an overview of van Dijk-Hemmes' extensive output of books and articles completes the volume. Fokkelien van Dijk-Hemmes taught Women's Studies and Old Testament at the University of Utrecht. Her pioneering work of feminist interpretation, tragically cut short, was highly influential both inside and outside the Netherlands. Translated by David E. Orton
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004397422
Suyanggae and her neighbours in Haifa, Israel : proceedings of the 20th (1) congress June 21-28, 2015 /
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The 20th symposium took place across two meetings, the first in Haifa, Israel and the second in Danyang, Republic of Korea. This proceedings volume gathers papers, abstracts and posters from the meeting in Haifa, which took place from 21-28 June 2015.
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Previously issued in print: 2017.
Includes index. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
Specialized. :
9781784915391 (ebook) :