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The invention of Scotland myth and history / by Trevor-Roper, H. R. (Hugh Redwald), 1914-2003

Table of Contents: “…The search for a Celtic Homer -- James Macpherson and Fingal -- The controversy over Ossian -- The sartorial myth. …”
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The invention of Scotland myth and history / by Trevor-Roper, H. R. (Hugh Redwald), 1914-2003

Table of Contents: “…The search for a Celtic Homer -- James Macpherson and Fingal -- The controversy over Ossian -- The sartorial myth. …”
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Aristophanes and the carnival of genres by Platter, Charles, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Bakhtin, Aristophanes, and the carnival of genres -- Dikaiopolis on modern art -- The failed programs of Clouds -- Clouds on Clouds and the aspirations of Wasps -- Questioning authority : Homer and oracular speech -- The return of Telephus : Acharnians, Tesmophoriazusae, and the dialogic background -- The centrifugal style.…”
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Aristophanes and the carnival of genres by Platter, Charles, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Bakhtin, Aristophanes, and the carnival of genres -- Dikaiopolis on modern art -- The failed programs of Clouds -- Clouds on Clouds and the aspirations of Wasps -- Questioning authority : Homer and oracular speech -- The return of Telephus : Acharnians, Tesmophoriazusae, and the dialogic background -- The centrifugal style.…”
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Foreign words translator-authors in the age of Goethe / by Bernofsky, Susan

Table of Contents: “…From Homer to Shakespeare: the rise of service translation in the late eighteenth century -- The translation as a Döppelganger: Amphitryon by Moliére and Kleist -- Hölderlin as translator: the perils of interpretation -- The paradox of the translator: Goethe and Diderot -- Coda: from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century.…”
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Foreign words translator-authors in the age of Goethe / by Bernofsky, Susan

Table of Contents: “…From Homer to Shakespeare: the rise of service translation in the late eighteenth century -- The translation as a Döppelganger: Amphitryon by Moliére and Kleist -- Hölderlin as translator: the perils of interpretation -- The paradox of the translator: Goethe and Diderot -- Coda: from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century.…”
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Dorsality thinking back through technology and politics / by Wills, David, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…The dorsal turn -- Facades of the other : Heidegger, Althusser, Levinas -- No one home : Homer, Joyce, Broch -- A line drawn in the ocean : Exodus, Freud, Rimbaud -- Friendship in torsion : Schmitt, Derrida -- Revolutions in the darkroom : Balázs, Benjamin, Sade -- The controversy of dissidence : Nietzsche.…”
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Dorsality thinking back through technology and politics / by Wills, David, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…The dorsal turn -- Facades of the other : Heidegger, Althusser, Levinas -- No one home : Homer, Joyce, Broch -- A line drawn in the ocean : Exodus, Freud, Rimbaud -- Friendship in torsion : Schmitt, Derrida -- Revolutions in the darkroom : Balázs, Benjamin, Sade -- The controversy of dissidence : Nietzsche.…”
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William Blake on his poetry and painting a study of A descriptive catalogue, other prose writings, and Jerusalem / by Adams, Hazard, 1926-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- A descriptive catalogue -- A vision of the Last Judgment -- A public address -- On Homer's poetry and On Virgil -- Laocoön -- On his arts : in the letters -- Retrospective : the early tractates -- On poetry, his poetry, and other poets -- From the prose to Jerusalem -- From Jerusalem and the prose to Yeats and Joyce -- Postscript.…”
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William Blake on his poetry and painting a study of A descriptive catalogue, other prose writings, and Jerusalem / by Adams, Hazard, 1926-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- A descriptive catalogue -- A vision of the Last Judgment -- A public address -- On Homer's poetry and On Virgil -- Laocoön -- On his arts : in the letters -- Retrospective : the early tractates -- On poetry, his poetry, and other poets -- From the prose to Jerusalem -- From Jerusalem and the prose to Yeats and Joyce -- Postscript.…”
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Mysteriously Meant : The Rediscovery of Pagan Symbolism and Allegorical Interpretation in the Renaissance by Allen, Don Cameron, 1903-1972

Table of Contents: “…Pagan myth and Chri̤̤̤stian apologetics -- The Renaissance search for Christian origins: the philosophers -- The Renaissance search for Christian origins: the sacred history -- Undermeanings in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey -- The symbolic wisdom of the Ancient Egyptians -- Undermeanings in Virgil's Aeneid -- Undermeanings in Ovid's Metamorphoses -- The allegorical interpretation of the Renaissance mythographers -- The symbolic interpretations of Renaissance antiquarians -- The rationalization of myth and the end of allegory.…”
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Mysteriously Meant : The Rediscovery of Pagan Symbolism and Allegorical Interpretation in the Renaissance by Allen, Don Cameron, 1903-1972

Table of Contents: “…Pagan myth and Chri̤̤̤stian apologetics -- The Renaissance search for Christian origins: the philosophers -- The Renaissance search for Christian origins: the sacred history -- Undermeanings in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey -- The symbolic wisdom of the Ancient Egyptians -- Undermeanings in Virgil's Aeneid -- Undermeanings in Ovid's Metamorphoses -- The allegorical interpretation of the Renaissance mythographers -- The symbolic interpretations of Renaissance antiquarians -- The rationalization of myth and the end of allegory.…”
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Orality, literacy and performance in the ancient world orality and literacy in the ancient world, vol. 9 /

Table of Contents: “…Poetry in performance -- The audience expects: Penelope and Odysseus / Adrian Kelly -- The presentation of song in Homer's odyssey / Deborah Beck -- Comparative perspectives on the composition of the Homeric simile / Jonathon Ready -- Composing lines, performing acts: clauses, discourse acts, and melodic units in a south slavic epic song / Anna Bonifazi and David F. …”
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Orality, literacy and performance in the ancient world orality and literacy in the ancient world, vol. 9 /

Table of Contents: “…Poetry in performance -- The audience expects: Penelope and Odysseus / Adrian Kelly -- The presentation of song in Homer's odyssey / Deborah Beck -- Comparative perspectives on the composition of the Homeric simile / Jonathon Ready -- Composing lines, performing acts: clauses, discourse acts, and melodic units in a south slavic epic song / Anna Bonifazi and David F. …”
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Voyages of the self pairs, parallels, and patterns in American art and literature / by Novak, Barbara

Table of Contents: “…Copley and Edwards : self, consciousness, and thing -- Emerson and Lane : luminist time and the transcendental aboriginal self -- Thoreau and Indian selfhood : circles, silence, and democratic land -- Whitman and Church : transcendent optimism and the democratic self -- Homer and James : the pragmatic self made concrete -- Dickinson and Ryder : immortality, eternity, and the reclusive self -- Pollock and Olson : time, space, and the activated bodily self.…”
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Enviro-toons green themes in animated cinema and television / by PIke, Deidre M., 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: ecocriticism and animation -- Simply subversive-Felix the cat -- Fear and loathing in Bambi -- Hand-drawn Homer, a comic hero in The Simpsons movie -- Futurama's ecofeminist reading room -- Farting hybrids in South Park's rainforest -- Tap dance of the penguins -- Hovering humanity in Wall-E -- Waking up from Avatar -- Deep ecologies of Hayao Miyazaki -- Animation energy.…”
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Enviro-toons green themes in animated cinema and television / by PIke, Deidre M., 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: ecocriticism and animation -- Simply subversive-Felix the cat -- Fear and loathing in Bambi -- Hand-drawn Homer, a comic hero in The Simpsons movie -- Futurama's ecofeminist reading room -- Farting hybrids in South Park's rainforest -- Tap dance of the penguins -- Hovering humanity in Wall-E -- Waking up from Avatar -- Deep ecologies of Hayao Miyazaki -- Animation energy.…”
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Voyages of the self pairs, parallels, and patterns in American art and literature / by Novak, Barbara

Table of Contents: “…Copley and Edwards : self, consciousness, and thing -- Emerson and Lane : luminist time and the transcendental aboriginal self -- Thoreau and Indian selfhood : circles, silence, and democratic land -- Whitman and Church : transcendent optimism and the democratic self -- Homer and James : the pragmatic self made concrete -- Dickinson and Ryder : immortality, eternity, and the reclusive self -- Pollock and Olson : time, space, and the activated bodily self.…”
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Triphiodorus, The sack of Troy : a general study and a commentary / by Miguélez Cavero, Laura

Table of Contents: “…Triphiodorus: name, origin, date and lost works -- The sack of Troy: an overview -- General design -- Enigmas -- Characterisation -- The narrator -- Speeches -- Literary universe: Triphiodorus and the epic tradition -- Triphiodorus and Homer -- Triphiodorus and the cycle -- Hesiod and Pindar -- Tragic Triphiodorus -- Triphiodorus' Hellenistic readings -- Triphiodorus and Virgil -- Triphiodorus and imperial literature -- Triphiodorus and the contemporary literary scene -- Metrics -- Reading The sack of Troy -- Greek text -- Commentary.…”
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Triphiodorus, The sack of Troy : a general study and a commentary / by Miguélez Cavero, Laura

Table of Contents: “…Triphiodorus: name, origin, date and lost works -- The sack of Troy: an overview -- General design -- Enigmas -- Characterisation -- The narrator -- Speeches -- Literary universe: Triphiodorus and the epic tradition -- Triphiodorus and Homer -- Triphiodorus and the cycle -- Hesiod and Pindar -- Tragic Triphiodorus -- Triphiodorus' Hellenistic readings -- Triphiodorus and Virgil -- Triphiodorus and imperial literature -- Triphiodorus and the contemporary literary scene -- Metrics -- Reading The sack of Troy -- Greek text -- Commentary.…”
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