The Treatment of Classical Material in the Libro de Alexandre
Title | The Treatment of Classical Material in the Libro de Alexandre PDF eBook |
Author | Ian Michael |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | Classicism |
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The Treatment of Classical Material in the Libro de Alexandre
Title | The Treatment of Classical Material in the Libro de Alexandre PDF eBook |
Author | Jan Michael |
Publisher | |
Pages | 323 |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | |
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The Teatment of Classical Material in the Libro de Alexandre
Title | The Teatment of Classical Material in the Libro de Alexandre PDF eBook |
Author | Ian Michael |
Publisher | |
Pages | 323 |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | |
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Book of Alexander (Libro de Alexandre)
Title | Book of Alexander (Libro de Alexandre) PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Rabone |
Publisher | Liverpool University Press |
Pages | 753 |
Release | 2009-10-19 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1800345003 |
The Libro de Alexandre is an epic poem about the life of Alexander the Great, written by an anonymous Spanish cleric in the thirteenth century. It is the most substantial poem (and almost certainly the first) composed in the learned cuaderna vía verse form and provides a unique insight into the intellectual world from which it sprang.
Inscribing the Environment
Title | Inscribing the Environment PDF eBook |
Author | Connie Scarborough |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2013-03-22 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3110265036 |
Ecocriticism as a theoretical model has primarily been used in the study of Romantic, post-Romantic, and contemporary literary texts. Applications of the concepts to medieval literature, however, are a fairly recent phenomenon. This book examines key, canonical works from medieval Spain, showing how descriptions of the natural world in these texts are informed by both the authors’ perceptions of the environment and established literary models.
Death in Babylon
Title | Death in Babylon PDF eBook |
Author | Vincent Barletta |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 271 |
Release | 2010-05-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0226037398 |
Though Alexander the Great lived more than seventeen centuries before the onset of Iberian expansion into Muslim Africa and Asia, he loomed large in the literature of late medieval and early modern Portugal and Spain. Exploring little-studied chronicles, chivalric romances, novels, travelogues, and crypto-Muslim texts, Vincent Barletta shows that the story of Alexander not only sowed the seeds of Iberian empire but foreshadowed the decline of Portuguese and Spanish influence in the centuries to come. Death in Babylon depicts Alexander as a complex symbol of Western domination, immortality, dissolution, heroism, villainy, and death. But Barletta also shows that texts ostensibly celebrating the conqueror were haunted by failure. Examining literary and historical works in Aljamiado, Castilian, Catalan, Greek, Latin, and Portuguese, Death in Babylon develops a view of empire and modernity informed by the ethical metaphysics of French phenomenologist Emmanuel Levinas. A novel contribution to the literature of empire building, Death in Babylon provides a frame for the deep mortal anxiety that has infused and given shape to the spread of imperial Europe from its very beginning.
A Companion to Alexander Literature in the Middle Ages
Title | A Companion to Alexander Literature in the Middle Ages PDF eBook |
Author | David Zuwiyya |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 420 |
Release | 2011-07-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004211934 |
Never before has there appeared in English such a collection of essays concerning Alexander the Great's legacy in world literature. From Greek and Latin works of the Classical Period through Medieval texts in Syriac, Persian, Coptic, Arabic, Ethiopic and Hebrew, as well the European languages, the fourteen chapters cover the gamut of Alexander literary studies as compiled by some of the foremost scholars in each field, bringing the reader up-to-date on everything Alexander. These experts share their results after years of investigation in the field, and, in doing so, point the reader toward the essence of each of the myriad of Alexander romances, while at the same time including copious notes and bibliography to prepare the reader for his or her own Alexander journey. Contributors include: Richard Stoneman, Saskia Dönitz, Daniel Selden, Josef Wiesehöfer, David Ashurst, Laurence Harf-Lancner, Danielle Buschinger, Juan Pedro Monferrer Sala, Roberta Morosini, Maura Lafferty, Peter Kotar, David Zuwiyya