1.

Record Nr.

UNIBAS000028872

Autore

Henry, O. <1862-1910>

Titolo

The complete works of O. Henry

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : Doubleday, Page, 1926

Edizione

[Special literary digest edition]

Descrizione fisica

XI, 1396 ; 21 cm.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

O. Henry รจ lo pseudonimo di: William Sydney Porter

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910974654003321

Titolo

Seneca / / edited by John G. Fitch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008

ISBN

9780199282098

9780191557743

0191557749

Descrizione fisica

vi, 438 p

Collana

Oxford readings in classical studies

Altri autori (Persone)

FitchJohn G

Disciplina

188

Soggetti

Philosophy, Ancient

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Imago Vitae Suae -- 2. Seneca's Epistles to Lucilius: A Revaluation -- 3. Self-scrutiny and Self-transformation in Seneca's Letters -- 4. Imagination and Meditation in Seneca: The Example of Praemeditatio -- 5. The Will in Seneca the Younger -- 6. Boundary Violation and the Landscape of the Self in Senecan Tragedy -- 7. Construction of the Self in Senecan Drama -- 8.



Senecan Tragedy: Back on Stage? -- 9. Staging Seneca: The Production of Troas as a Philological Experiment -- 10. Seneca's Oedipus: The Drama in the Word -- 11. Gender and Power in Seneca's Thyestes -- 12. The Implied Reader and the Political Argument in Seneca's Apocolocyntosis and De Clementia -- 13. Roman Historical Exempla in Seneca -- 14. In umbra virtutis: Gloria in the Thought of Seneca the Philosopher -- 15. Seneca and Slavery -- 16. The Dating of Seneca's Tragedies, with Special Reference to Thyestes -- 17. Virgil's Dido and Seneca's Tragic Heroines -- 18. Seneca and Renaissance Drama: Ideology and Meaning -- Acknowledgement -- References.

Sommario/riassunto

Statesman, dramatist, philosopher, and prose stylist, Seneca was a leading figure in the Roman Empire in the first century AD. This volume is a collection of outstanding articles written about him during the last four decades, with a new introduction which places the articles within the context of recent academic thought and criticism.