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The Classical Plot and the Invention of Western Narrative
By: Lowe, N. J.
Published by: Cambridge University Press
This is the story of how western literature first developed its distinctive taste for the kind of tight, economical plotting still supreme in modern fiction and cinema. The book shows how this taste was formed in Greco-Roman antiquity out of a series of revolutions in storytelling.
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Price: $24.00
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Cliffs Notes: Homer's The Iliad
By: Linn, Bob
Published by: IDG Books Worldwide
Homer's classic Greek epic, The Iliad, plunges you into the midst of the battle of Troy as swords flash and ancient angers flare - and CliffsNotes is at your side through the fray to shield you from being unprepared for class discussion.
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Price: $5.99
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Cliffs Notes: Homer's The Odyssey
By: Baldwin, Stanley P.
Published by: IDG Books Worldwide, Inc
The Odyssey is an epic poem that unfurls the story of Odysseus' triumph over Troy and arduous journey home to reclaim his kingdom. It has the elements of romance and adventure and the psychological development of character thousands of years before Freud. At 2,500 years old, it is one of the finest books ever written; as poetry, it sets the standard for comparison; and it serves as one of the foundations of the Western world's cultural heritage.
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The Collected Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales of Giuseppe Pitré
By: Pitre, Giuseppe; Zipes, Jack (ed.); Russo, Joseph (ed.)
Published by: Routledge
Giuseppe Pitre, a nineteenth-century Sicilian physician, gathered an enormous wealth of folk and fairy tales as he traveled and treated the poor throughout Palermo. This two-volume set collects 300 and 100 variants of his most entertaining and most important folk and fairy tales.
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Price: $175.00
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Coming to the Edge of the Circle
By: Bado-Fralick, Nikki
Published by: Oxford University Press (US)
Offers an ethnographic study of the initiation ritual practiced by one coven of Witches located in Ohio. This analysis of the Wiccan initiation ceremony offers a challenge to the commonly accepted anthropological model of 'rites of passage.'
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Price: $48.00
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A Companion to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle
By: Dover, Carol (ed.)
Published by: Boydell & Brewer
The early thirteenth-century French prose Lancelot-Grail Cycle (or Vulgate Cycle ) brings together the stories of Arthur with those of the Grail, a conjunction of materials that continues to fascinate the Western imagination today. Representing what is probably the earliest large-scale use of prose for fiction in the West, it also exemplifies the taste for big cyclic compositions that shaped much of European narrative fiction for three centuries.
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Price: $95.00
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Classical Mythology
By: Burgess, Dana L.; Osborn, Kevin
Published by: Alpha Books
You're no idiot, of course. You can find Greece on a map, know that Kevin Sorbo stars as Hercules on TV, and have heard of Freud's Oedipus theory. But when it comes to classical mythology, you feel like you've been foiled by the gods. Don't curse Zeus yet! The Complete Idiot's Guide to Classical Mythology has all you need for a working knowledge of the timeless world of Greek and Roman myths.
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Price: $16.95
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Conspiracy Theories
By: Tuckett, Kate
Published by: Summersdale Publishers Ltd
Worried that the world is run by a sinister cabal operating at the very highest level of government? You could be right. Bringing together evidence on topics ranging from the Sphinx to JFK, Chernobyl to men in black and life on Mars to Roswell, this book has a cover-up for every occasion.
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Price: $9.99
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Constantine
By: Lieu, Samuel N. C.; Montserrat, Dominic
Published by: Routledge
Constantine: History, Historiography and Legend examines the reign of Constantine, the first Christian emperor and the founder of Constantinople, from a variety of angles: historical, historiographical and mythical.
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Price: $130.00
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Coyote Steals Fire
By: Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation
Published by: Utah State University Press
Members of the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation developed the concept for this retelling of a traditional Shoshone folktale. Together, they wrote and illustrated the book.
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Price: $17.95
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