Based on The Duel by Joseph Conrad.\nTie-in novelization of Ridley Scott's movie The Duellists.

The Duellists

Literature & Fiction

WILLIAMS, Gordon

Genre Fiction

Fontana

This book sets out to reveal the essential nature of Roman poetry and the ways in which individual, highly conscious of inheriting an identifiable tradition, managed to achieve an originality of their own. Williams focuses particularly on the Augustan poets, with all quotations given in Latin and English.

Tradition and Originality in Roman Poetry

Poetry

Oxford University Press

It has long been assumed that the language of Roman poetry was constructed under the dictates of elaborately defined rules of rhetoric, and its content determined according to the system of comparable classifications called invention.  This belief has persisted in spite of the difficulty of fitting the works of Catullus, Horace, Virgil, Propertius, and Tibullus into such a rigid scheme.  In this book Gordon Williams demonstrates that, although Ovid and his successors did indeed assimilate their poetry to the rhetorical rules devised for prose, the earlier poets employed a quite different method. Williams sees this method as falling into either a metaphorical or metonymic mode, both of which permitted the poet “to say one thing and mean another.”  Delicate and often startling transitions of thought could be grasped―though not necessarily on first reading―by readers “assumed by the poet to have a special access to the poet’s process of thought.”  This access presupposed similarities of “education, social position, and sympathetic understanding.” Through close analyses of many poems, Williams shows how poets in the fifty years before Horace’s death exploited metaphor, metonymy, and a third device that he calls thematic anticipation to evoke subtle associations of thought.  In doing so he elucidates problems of Latin poems that have been generally misunderstood almost since they day they were written.   

Figures of Thought in Roman Poetry

Yale University Press

Technique and Ideas in the Aeneid

80p paperback with green illustrated cover, edges browned but pages clean and unmarked, very good

Macbeth: Text and Performance

Dramas & Plays

Macmillan

Shakespeare: Coriolanus (Macmillan Master Guides, 17)

Teen & Young Adult

Red Globe Press

Providing an alphabetical listing of sexual language and locution in 16th and 17th-century English, this book draws especially on the more immediate literary modes: the theatre, broadside ballads, newsbooks and pamphlets. The aim is to assist the reader of Shakespearean and Stuart literature to identify metaphors and elucidate meanings; and more broadly, to chart, through illustrative quotation, shifting and recurrent linguistic patterns. Linguistic habit is closely bound up with the ideas and assumptions of a period, and the figurative language of sexuality across this period is highly illuminating of socio-cultural change as well as linguistic development. Thus the entries offer as much to those concerned with social history and the history of ideas as to the reader of Shakespeare or Dryden. Gordon Williams has also published "Coriolanus" (a Macmillan Master Guide, 1987); and "Macbeth" (a Macmillan Text and Performance book, 1985).

A Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature: Three Volume Set Volume I A-F Volume II G-P Volume III Q-Z

History & Criticism

Bloomsbury Academic

A guide to Shakespeare's sexual language, some of which is difficult to unravel and whose roots go far back into earlier literature.

A Glossary of Shakespeare's Sexual Language

UNKNO

A guide to Shakespeare's sexual language, some of which is difficult to unravel and whose roots go far back into earlier literature.

Reference

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1978.

Change and Decline: Roman Literature in the Early Empire (Sather Classical Lectures) (Volume 45)

University of California Press

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The Duellists

Tradition and Originality in Roman Poetry

Figures of Thought in Roman Poetry

Technique and Ideas in the Aeneid

Macbeth: Text and Performance

Shakespeare: Coriolanus (Macmillan Master Guides, 17)

A Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature: Three Volume Set Volume I A-F Volume II G-P Volume III Q-Z

A Glossary of Shakespeare's Sexual Language

A Glossary of Shakespeare's Sexual Language

Change and Decline: Roman Literature in the Early Empire (Sather Classical Lectures) (Volume 45)