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Authors: Phebe Lowell Bowditch
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-03-02 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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This innovative study explores selected odes and epistles by the late-first-century poet Horace in light of modern anthropological and literary theory. Phebe Lo
The Medieval Gift and the Classical Tradition
Language: en
Pages: 237
Authors: Lars Kjaer
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-08-29 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Explores how classical ideals of generosity influenced the writing and practice of gift giving in medieval Europe.
Poetics and the Gift
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Categories: Literary Criticism
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Using a broad, comparative approach, this study shows how the figure of the gift structures poetic discourse and does so from the age of Homer up through twenty
Horace: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide
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This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best a
The Oxford Handbook of Restoration Literature
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The Oxford Handbook of Restoration Literature begins by asking if there was a distinctive literature of the Restoration. For a long time, the answer seemed obvi