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A Companion to Greek Mythology presents a series of essays that explore the phenomenon of Greek myth from its origins in shared Indo-European story pa…

A Companion to Sophocles presents the first comprehensive collection of essays in decades to address all aspects of the life, works, and critical rece…

Actors and Icons of the Ancient Theater examines actors and their popular reception from the origins of theater in Classical Greece to the Roman Empir…

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The 34 essays of this collection by leading international scholars reassess Truffaut's impact on cinema as they locate the unique quality of his thema…

The thoroughly expanded and updated New Companion to the Gothic, provides a series of stimulating insights into Gothic writing, its history and geneal…

A Companion to Martin Scorsese is a comprehensive collection of original essays assessing the career of one of America’s most prominent contemporary f…

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A Companion to Persius and Juvenal breaks new ground in its in-depth focus on both authors as «satiric successors»; detailed individual contributions …

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A Companion to the Archaeology of the Roman Republic offers a diversity of perspectives to explore how differing approaches and methodologies can cont…

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Provides a broad view of the history and current state of scholarship on the art of the ancient Near East This book covers the aesthetic traditions of…

A Companion to Comparative Literature presents a collection of more than thirty original essays from established and emerging scholars, which explore …

Covering the period 1879 to 1959, and taking in everything from Ibsen to Beckett, this book is volume one of a two-part comprehensive examination of t…

Provides a detailed map of contemporary critical theory in Renaissance and Early Modern English literary studies beyond Shakespeare A Handbook of Engl…

Technological changes have often produced important social changes that translate into spatial and planning practice. Whereas the intelligent city is …

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A Companion to the Latin Language presents a collection of original essays from international scholars that track the development and use of the Latin…

A Companion to Roman Love Elegy is the first comprehensive work dedicated solely to the study of love elegy. The genre is explored through 33 original…

Transgression suggests operating beyond accepted norms and radically reinterpreting practice by pushing at the boundaries of both what architecture is…

A Companion to the City of Rome presents a series of original essays from top experts that offer an authoritative and up-to-date overview of current r…

A Companion to American Literary Studies addresses the most provocative questions, subjects, and issues animating the field. Essays provide readers wi…

Through original essays from a distinguished team of international scholars and Hardy specialists, A Companion to Thomas Hardy provides a unique, one-…

Featuring 37 essays by distinguished literary scholars, A Companion to the American Novel provides a comprehensive single-volume treatment of the deve…

This innovative guide to the Latin language, written for a new generation of students, deploys examples and translation exercises taken exclusively fr…

Terror and the Postcolonial is a major comparative study of terrorism and its representations in postcolonial theory, literature, and culture. A groun…

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This concise companion examines contexts that are essential to understanding and interpreting writing in English produced in the period between approx…

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This Companion offers a chronological sweep of the canon of Arthurian literature – from its earliest beginnings to the contemporary manifestations of …

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Regarded by many as the equal of Shakespeare in poetic imagination and expression, Milton was also a prolific writer of prose, applying his potent gen…

Does planning in contested cities inadvertedly make the divisions worse? The 60s and 70s saw a strong role of planning, social engineering, etc but th…

A Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds draws from both established and current scholarship to offer a broad overview of the field, enga…

Written by some of the world's most distinguished Henry James scholars, this innovative collection of essays provides the most up-to-date scholarship …

A scholarly review of American world literature from early times to the postmodernist era American World Literature: An Introduction explores how the …

In its original formulation, ‘culture' was intended to be an agent for change, a mission undertaken with the aim of educating ‘the people' by bringing…