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  1. Babylon Under Western Eyes :
    A Study of Allusion and Myth /
    Author: Scheil, Andrew P.,
    Published: [2018]; ©2016
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press,, Toronto :

    "Combining remarkable erudition with a clear and accessible style, Babylon under Western Eyes is the first comprehensive examination of Babylon's significance within the pantheon of western literature and a testimonial to the continuing influence of... more

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    "Combining remarkable erudition with a clear and accessible style, Babylon under Western Eyes is the first comprehensive examination of Babylon's significance within the pantheon of western literature and a testimonial to the continuing influence of biblical, classical, and medieval paradigms in modern culture."-- "Babylon under Western Eyes examines the mythic legacy of ancient Babylon, the Near Eastern city which has served western culture as a metaphor for power, luxury, and exotic magnificence for more than two thousand years. Sifting through the many references to Babylon in biblical, classical, medieval, and modern texts, Andrew Scheil uses Babylon's remarkable literary ubiquity as the foundation for a thorough analysis of the dynamics of adaptation and allusion in western literature. Touching on everything from Old English poetry to the contemporary apocalyptic fiction of the "Left Behind" series, Scheil outlines how medieval Christian society and its cultural successors have adopted Babylon as a political metaphor, a degenerate archetype, and a place associated with the sublime."--

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1-4426-2513-9; 1-4426-2512-0
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    Subjects: European literature; Allusions in literature.; Mythology in literature.; Popular culture in literature.
    Scope: 1 online resource (360 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.

    Introduction -- Part I: Babylon as Political Metaphor. Chapter One: The Political Image of Babylon in Antiquity -- Chapter Two: Political Babylon in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages -- Chapter Three: Political Babylon from the Great Schism to the Present -- Part II: Babylon as Degenerate Archetype. Chapter Four: The Medieval Genealogy of Babylonian Degeneracy: The Cursed Race -- Chapter Five: The Post-Medieval Genealogy of Babylonian Degeneracy and the Cursed Race Archetype -- Part III: Babylon as Sublime Topos. Chapter Six: City of Ruins -- Chapter Seven: Babylon and the Coordinates of Romance -- Conclusion.
  2. The Play of Allusion in the Historia Augusta
    Author: Rohrbacher, David,
    Published: [2016]; ©2016
    Publisher:  The University of Wisconsin Press,, Madison, Wisconsin :

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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0-299-30603-8
    Series: Wisconsin studies in classics
    Subjects: Allusions in literature.; Emperors
    Scope: 1 online resource (268 p.)
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    Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
  3. Allusion and allegory :
    studies in the Ciris /
    Author: Kayachev, Boris,
    Published: 2016.; ©2016
    Publisher:  De Gruyter,, Berlin, [Germany] ;

    The Ciris has received a certain amount of scholarly attention during the twentieth century, but on the whole has failed to meet with an adequate appreciation. This book aims to vindicate the Ciris, mainly by exploring its use of pre-Virgilian poetic... more

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    The Ciris has received a certain amount of scholarly attention during the twentieth century, but on the whole has failed to meet with an adequate appreciation. This book aims to vindicate the Ciris, mainly by exploring its use of pre-Virgilian poetic texts largely ignored in previous scholarship. The core of the book consists of a discursive literary commentary, divided into chapters that examine consecutively the poem's main narrative units. Viewing allusion and allegory as intrinsic features of poetic composition rather than mere artistic devices, the book explores, among more prominent intertexts, Apollonius' Argonautica and Callimachus' Hecale, Lucretius and Catullus 64. Allusions are also suggested to Homer and Empedocles, Theocritus, Moschus, and Bion, Nicander and Euphorion, Choerilus of Samos and Asius of Samos, Ennius and Cicero. Through its intricate web of references to poetic intertexts, the Ciris, it is argued, creates an implicit allegorical pattern with an original poetological message. Allusion and Allegory is thus the first book-length study to offer a coherent literary interpretation of this controversial poem.

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Dissertation
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 3-11-044712-6; 3-11-044776-2
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    RVK Categories: FX 178705
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series: Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, ; Band 346
    Subjects: Allusions in literature.; Mythology, Classical, in literature.; Narrative poetry, Latin; LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical.
    Other subjects: Virgil
    Scope: 1 online resource (248 p.)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.

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  4. Babylon under western eyes :
    a study of allusion and myth /
    Author: Scheil, Andrew P.,
    Published: 2016.; 2016
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press,, Toronto, [Ontario] ;

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781442625129 (e-book)
    Subjects: European literature; Allusions in literature.; Mythology in literature.; Popular culture in literature.
    Scope: 1 online resource (360 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.