Today's (3/10/2010) New Book Releases on Reference

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Acclaimed as one of the pioneering texts to introduce narratology (the theory that deals with the general principles underlying narrative texts) to classical scholarship, Irene de Jong’s Narrators and Focalizers explains key concepts such as ‘narrator’, ‘focalization’ and ‘prolepsis’, highlighting their relevance by using them for the analysis and interpretation of Homer’s Iliad. What is the role of the narrator, and how do the parts of the story told by the narrator relate to the many speeches for which Homer is famous.

This, the most important work on Homer’s technique as narrator, was first published in 1987. It is here reissued with a substantial new Introduction by the author, offering an overview of the trends in Homeric narratological scholarship over the last decade.

Part of the Bristol Classical Press series of Spanish texts, this is Horacio Quiroga's story "Cuentos Escogidos". The series is designed to meet the needs of the fast-growinghigh school and undergraduate market for texts in the Spanish language. Each text comes with English notes and vocabulary, and with an introduction by an editor with an expert knowledge both of the work and of its literary and cultural context. Horacio Quiroga (1878-1937), a celebrated writer of the short story, played a leading role in the Modernist movement that emerged in Buenos Aires at the turn of the century. His stories combine something of Guy de Maupasant and Edgar Allan Poe, sharing Poe's interest in the strange and the abnormal but seldom straying from a realistic setting or psychological verisimilitude. This edition situates Quiroga in his literary and historical context and explores the central theme of his work - the conflict between man and environment.

This book remains the standard edition of the "Dialogus", providing a comprehensive treatment of the problems of authorship, date, form and style. This volume is intended to meet the needs of students and scholars increasingly working on ancient rhetoric, as the "Dialogus" constitutes an important link between the rhetorical works of Cicero on the one hand and Quintilian's "Institutio Oratoriae" on the other.

This edition of the poetry of Cesar Vallejo (1892-1938) includes an introduction which takes into account the most recent criticism written on the Peruvian poet, an annotated bibiography, and a glossary which explains some of the more difficult and technical terms used by Vallejo. Each of the thirty-eight poems selected is followed by a short commentary in plain English.