Rumour and Renown

Rumour and Renown
Author: Philip R. Hardie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 707
Release: 2012-02-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521620880


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Major study of the literary treatment of rumour and renown across the canon of authors from Homer to Alexander Pope, including readings in historiographical and dramatic texts, and authors such as Petrarch, Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare and Milton. Of interest to students of classical and comparative literature and of reception studies.


Rumour and Renown
Language: en
Pages: 707
Authors: Philip R. Hardie
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-02-02 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Major study of the literary treatment of rumour and renown across the canon of authors from Homer to Alexander Pope, including readings in historiographical and
Word of Mouth
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Pages: 594
Authors: Gianni Guastella
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-02-10 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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The concept expressed by the Roman term fama, although strictly linked to the activity of speaking, recalls a more complex form of collective communication that
Rumour and Renown
Language: en
Pages: 706
Authors: Philip Hardie
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-12-18 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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The Latin word fama means 'rumour', 'report', 'tradition', as well as modern English 'fame' or 'renown'. This magisterial and groundbreaking study in the litera
Word of Mouth
Language: en
Pages: 457
Authors: Gianni Guastella
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-01-13 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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The concept expressed by the Roman term fama, although strictly linked to the activity of speaking, recalls a more complex form of collective communication that
The Rumour
Language: en
Pages: 226
Authors: Hans-Joachim Neubauer
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher:

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German writer, journalist, and playwright Neubauer looks at the long history of rumors. He finds their nests in an ancient barber's shop, the Parisian squares o