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  • Stealing Helen
    Lowell Edmunds
    It’s a familiar story: a beautiful woman is abducted and her husband journeys to recover her. This story’s best-known incarnation is also a central Greek myth—the abduction of Helen that led to the Trojan War. Stealing Helen surveys a vast range of folktales and texts exhibiting the story pattern of the abducted beautiful wife and makes a detailed comparison with the Helen of T...
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    56,32 €

  • Martini, Straight Up
    Lowell Edmunds / TBD
    Originally published in 1998. From its contested origins in nineteenth-century California; through its popularity among the smart set of the 1930s, world leaders of the 1940s, and the men in the gray flannel suits of the 1950s; to its resurgence among today's retro-hipsters: Lowell Edmunds traces the history and cultural significance of the cocktail H. L. Mencken called the...
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    42,28 €

  • Oedipus
    Lowell Edmunds
    The power of the Oedipus legend is apparent not only in its interpretations but even more so in its variations. As Edmunds writes, Translations, adaptations, and performances still come forth in a never-ending stream. Again and again, playwrights have tried their hand at new shapings of the Sophoclean Oedipuses and often a country's Oedipus forms a whole chapter in the hist...
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    61,60 €

  • From a Sabine Jar
    Lowell Edmunds
    This book is a detailed study of a single poem -- Horace, Odes 1.9 -- often called ’The Soracte Ode’ after the mountain named in its second line. Although more than seventy articles and parts of books have been devoted to this twenty-four line poem since the beginning of the last century, Lowell Edmunds is the first scholar to apply developments in literary theory from outside...
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    51,53 €

  • Oedipus
    Lowell Edmunds
    An indispensable guide to the myth of Oedipus this book is the first to analyze its entire history from ancient times to the modern day and presented with an authoritative survey that considers Oedipus in art and music as well as in literature. ...
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    61,30 €

  • Intertextuality and the Reading of Roman Poetry
    Lowell Edmunds
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    46,11 €

  • Theatrical Space and Historical Place in Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus
    Edmunds / Lowell Edmunds
    While Greek tragedies are often studied as works of literature, they are less frequently examined as products of the social and political environment in which they were created. Rarely, too, are the visual and spatial aspects of these plays given careful consideration. In this detailed and innovative book, Lowell Edmunds combines two readings of the Oedipus at Colonus to arrive...
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    72,39 €