... roman , especially that of Natalie Sarraute and Alain Robbe-Grillet. The importance of Quin’s work for postwar fiction, the article argues, is that it suspends, periodically, the free indirect style of early modernism but also departs from the austere topography of the nouveau roman, so that her fiction...

..., he helps shape the Greco-Roman heroic ideal that is later embodied in medieval romance, a tradition on which Shakespeare draws in Othello . University of Oregon 2009 Adelman, Janet. “Iago's Alter Ego: Race as Projection in Othello.” Shakespeare Quarterly 48 . 2 ( 1997 ): 124 -44...

... that the poem's idiosyncratic form indicates that Pushkin was not yet sure whether he was standing on the threshold of an Augustan or Neronian age. Pushkin's acquaintances among Moscow Slavophiles made him for the time being more attentive to the positive parallels between Russian and Roman history than...

... spot in most theories of poetry, because it undermines the pervasive idea of a monolingual idiom independent from social developments, but that Roman Jakobson's theory of equational relations may be valuable if applied with substantial readjustments to account for the fact that different languages...

... does in fact construct a specific method for literary understanding. Second, this hermeneutics stems from his decades-long preoccupation with figural interpretation, the essentially Christian mode of reading that he traces from late Roman antiquity through the Middle Ages. Third, there emerges out...

...Heidi Morse Abstract Since the 1970s, the topic of feminist adaptations of Greco-Roman mythology has been dominated by narratives of revision and retelling from the perspective of female characters, including—via Hélène Cixous—Medusa as a creative muse for women’s writing. Pairing the modernist US...

...Ben Hutchinson Abstract This article revisits the emergence of “comparative” and “world” literature within the early nineteenth century, arguing that we can only understand the full normative force of the two terms if we read them rhetorically. In order to do this, the article draws on Roman...

.... The essay explains how epic narrative, disembedded from earlier oral poetry, is then situated in new cultural contexts. Using the Roman epic as a paradigm, the essay also outlines a fourfold framework within which the interrelationship of the epic's symbolic content can be assessed. It concludes...

...Timothy D. Arner The life and work of the Roman poet Lucan functions as an important intertext for Chaucer's Legend of Good Women . It demonstrates that the vita Lucani and the Bellum Civile were widely available in medieval Europe and that Chaucer likely used both sources in both the Prologue...

..., Catullus and the Language of Social Performance . Chicago : U of Chicago P , 2001 . Print . Stroup Sarah Culpepper . Catullus, Cicero, and a Society of Patrons: The Generation of the Text . Cambridge : Cambridge UP , 2010 . Print . Wray David . Catullus and the Poetics of Roman...

... in Roman Art: The Use of Gesture to Denote Status in Roman Sculpture and Coinage . New Haven: The Academy, 1963 . Dumézil, Georges. Archaic Roman Religion . Trans. Philip Krapp. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970 . Elzenberg, Henryk. Kłopoty z istnieniem: Aforyzmy w porządku czasu...

.... Méla, Charles, ed. Chrétien de Troyes: Le Conte du Graal ou Le Roman de Perceval . Paris: Librairie générale française, 1990 . ____. La Reine et le Graal: la conjointure dans les romans du Graal de Chrétien de Troyes au livre de Lancelot . Paris: Seuil, 1984 . Ménard, Philippe. Du...

... Tacitus and the Politics of Roman History in Late Elizabethan En gland.” Huntington Library Quarterly 74 . 4 ( 2011 ): 515 – 51 . Print . Kiséry András . “‘I Lack Advancement’: Public Rhetoric, Private Prudence, and the Political Agent in Hamlet, 1561–1609.” ELH 81 . 1 ( 2014 ): 29...

...: Metamorphoses . Leipzig: Teubner, 1977 . Apollodorus. The Library . Trans. James George Frazer. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1961 . Auanger, Lisa. “Glimpses Through a Window: An Approach to Roman Female Homoeroticism through Art Historical and Literary Evidence.” Among Women: From...

... . Ed. Pamela Joseph Benson and Victoria Kirkham. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005 . 99 -120. Buttry, Dolores. “Authority Refracted: Personal Principle and Translation in Wace's Roman de Brut.” The Politics of Translation in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance . Ed. Renate Blumenfeld...

... . The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes . New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux , 1991 . Print . Homer . Odyssey. Vols. 4 & 5 of Homeri Opera . Ed. Monro David B. Allen Thomas W. . Oxford : Oxford UP , 1975 . Print . Jakobson Roman . “Closing Statement...

... of global trade, as Southeast Asia straddled the sea route between the two great markets of China and India and served as an important redistribution center. The Javanese have been known to sail to Africa since Roman times, with a colony settling in Mada- gascar. Southeast Asian port cities were open...

...​ for his own poem or “The History of Mr. Shi’s Lion Eating.” Written as an objection to the romanization of classical Chinese, the poem employs only charac- ters rendered phonetically as “shi,” although, in truth, this constraint actually yields four phonemes, since Chinese is a tonal language: shī...

....” Tragedy, Comedy, and the Polis . Ed. Alan H. Sommerstein, Stephen Halliwell, Jeffrey Henderson, and Bernhard Zimmerman. Bari: Levante Editori. 1991 . 101 -43. Fowler, Don. “Narrate and Describe: The Problem of Ekphrasis.” Journal of Roman Studies 81 ( 1991 ): 25 -35. ____. Roman...