Sarah L Spence

The Aeneid (Barnes & Noble Classics)

The Aeneid, by Vergil, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classicsseries, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Nob...

Literacy Imagination: The Review of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics (Winter 2001, Volume 3)

159 pp.7 x 10 x 1/2Appeals to readers of literary criticism, poetry, fiction, prose, interviews, classical literature, modern literature.

Literary Imagination. Volume 7, Number 1. Winter 2005.

Texts and the Self in the Twelfth Century (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature)

This book analyzes key twelfth-century Latin and vernacular texts that articulate a subjective autobiographical stance. The reader is led into a complex maze of paths, through intellectually daunting issues such as the relation of subject to object, self to body, body to text and text to language. T...

Louisiana Inklings:: A Literary Sampler

Louisiana Inklings celebrates the literary and cultural diversity to be found in Louisiana and showcases the talents of some of the state’s finest emerging writers. Here you’ll find poetry, short fiction, transcendent memoir, imaginative essays, and stand-alone chapters from novels in progress. Writ...

Poets and Critics Read Vergil

Vergil has exerted a stronger grasp on the poetic imagination and critical scholarship than almost any other poet. This absorbing book, a collection of essays and conversations by such leading poets and classicists as Joseph Brodsky, Christine Perkell, Michael C. J. Putnam, and Mark Strand, explores...

Figuratively Speaking: Rhetoric and Culture from Quintilian to the Twin Towers (Classical Inter/Faces)

Although rhetoric is a term often associated with lies, this book takes a polemical look at rhetoric as a purveyor of truth. Its purpose is to focus on one aspect of rhetoric, figurative speech, and to demonstrate how the treatment of figures of speech provides a common denominator among western cul...

The Battle of Lepanto (The I Tatti Renaissance Library)

The defeat of the Ottomans by the Holy League fleet at the Battle of Lepanto (1571) was among the most celebrated international events of the sixteenth century. This volume anthologizes the work of twenty-two poets from diverse social and geographical backgrounds who composed Latin poetry, often mod...