Tatum offers incisive discussions of physical and literary memorials constructed in the wake of war. The touchstone throughout is 'The Iliad', not just as one of the earliest war poems, but also as a powerful example of the way poetry acts as both tribute and consolation for loss.
Tatum offers incisive discussions of physical and literary memorials constructed in the wake of war. The touchstone throughout is 'The Iliad', not jus...
The plays translated in this volume represent everything one would not expect either from the third-century B.C. playwright Plautus or from Roman comedy in general.
A common theme in all three comedies is the triumph of women over men. In Truculentus, prostitutes snare all of the men in the play; in Bacchides, the victims include fathers and sons. In Casina, Plautus creates a fantasy that turns traditional social and sexual roles upside down. The plays' mordant, cynical treatment of the normal plots and casts of Roman comedy, their dark humor rooted in...
The plays translated in this volume represent everything one would not expect either from the third-century B.C. playwright Plautus or from Roman c...
Constraints on freedom, education, and individual dignity have always been fundamental in determining who is able to write, when, and where. Considering the singular experience of the African American writer, William W. Cook and James Tatum here argue that African American literature did not develop apart from canonical Western literary traditions but instead grew out of those literatures, even as it adapted and transformed the cultural traditions and religions of Africa and the African diaspora along the way.Tracing the interaction between African American writers and the literatures...
Constraints on freedom, education, and individual dignity have always been fundamental in determining who is able to write, when, and where. Co...
Constraints on freedom, education, and individual dignity have always been fundamental in determining who is able to write, when, and where. Considering the singular experience of the African American writer, William W. Cook and James Tatum here argue that African American literature did not develop apart from canonical Western literary traditions but instead grew out of those literatures, even as it adapted and transformed the cultural traditions and religions of Africa and the African diaspora along the way.Tracing the interaction between African American writers and the literatures...
Constraints on freedom, education, and individual dignity have always been fundamental in determining who is able to write, when, and where. Co...
"If you inquire into the origins of the novel long enough," writes James Tatum in the preface to this work, ." . . you will come to the fourth century before our era and Xenophon's Education of Cyrus, or the Cyropaedia." The Cyrus in question is Cyrus the Great, the founder of the Persian empire celebrated in the Book of Ezra as the liberator of Israel, and the Cyropaedia, written to instruct future rulers by his example, became not only an inspiration to poets and novelists but a profoundly influential political work. With Alexander as its earliest student, and Elizabeth I of England one...
"If you inquire into the origins of the novel long enough," writes James Tatum in the preface to this work, ." . . you will come to the fourth cent...
