This book offers the first systematic, up-to-date, cross-cultural, and detailed study of "e;semi-volitional bodily behaviour"e; (sneezing, spitting, coughing, burping, vomiting, defecating, etc.
Demonstrates the relevance of comparativism, ethnography, cognitive function, orality, and intertextuality to the elucidation of Greek prophetic practices.
Originally published in 1996, this volume contains essays by scholars, critics and translators and includes themes such as the myth in the Cretan Renaissance and the use of ancient myth by 19th and 20th Century poets.
Originally published in 1996, this volume contains essays by scholars, critics and translators and includes themes such as the myth in the Cretan Renaissance and the use of ancient myth by 19th and 20th Century poets.
The first book length study of the motif of impotency in poetry from early antiquity through to the late Restoration, this book explores the impotency poem as a recognisable form of poetry in the longer tradition of erotic elegy.