{"id":619,"date":"2023-02-09T20:22:15","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T01:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/classics-and-general-humanities\/?page_id=619"},"modified":"2023-09-20T13:35:49","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T17:35:49","slug":"faculty-bookshelf-3","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/classics-and-general-humanities\/faculty-bookshelf-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty Bookshelf"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/profilepages\/view_profile.php?username=alvaresj\">Jean Alvares<\/a><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>Ideal Themes in the Greek and Roman Novel<\/em>.\u00a0 Abingdon: Routledge, 2022.<\/strong><br \/>\nDevelops a system for analyzing ideal themes in literature, and uses those methods to produce readings of the Greek and Roman novels of Chariton, Longus, Achilles Tatius, Heliodorus, and Apuleius.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Classical Myth and Film in the New Millennium<\/em>. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018 (co-edited with Patricia Salzman-Mitchell).<\/strong><br \/>\nDetailed readings of twelve movies made before the year 2000, focusing on how how they adapt\/recycle Greco-Roman myth to reflect modern cultural currents as well older, even archetypal, themes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/profilepages\/view_profile.php?username=asirvathas\">Sulochana Asirvatham<\/a><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>Between Magic and Religion: Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient Mediterranean Religion and Society.\u00a0<\/em>Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001.\u00a0 (co-edited with\u00a0Corinne Ondine Pache, and John Watrous).<\/strong><br \/>\nA rethinking of traditional distinctions involving the term &#8220;religion&#8221; in the ancient Greek world and beyond, through late antiquity to the seventeenth century. The title indicates the fluidity of such concepts as religion and magic, highlighting the wide variety of meanings evoked by these shifting terms from ancient to modern times.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>The Courts of Philip II and Alexander the Great: Monarchy and Power in Ancient Macedonia.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022.\u00a0 (co-edited with Frances Pownall and Sabine M\u00fcller).<\/strong><br \/>\nEssays by leading scholars on Ancient Macedonia that assess the profound impact of Philip and Alexander on court culture throughout the ages.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/profilepages\/view_profile.php?username=beringera\">Alison Beringer<\/a><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>The Sight of Semiramis: Medieval and Early Modern Narratives of the Babylonian Queen<\/em>.\u00a0 Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2016.<\/strong><br \/>\nOrganized around a visual typology, <em>The Sight of Semiramis<\/em> explores ancient and medieval narratives about the Babylonian queen, revealing that this figure repeatedly violates social and familial structures, and ultimately defies categorization and classification.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Gender Bonds, Gender Binds: Women, Men, and Family in Middle High German Literature.\u00a0 <\/em>(co-edited with Sarah S. Poor and Olga V. Trohkimenko).<\/strong><br \/>\nA collection of essays exploring the intersection of Gender Studies and medieval German literature.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/profilepages\/view_profile.php?username=englishm\">Mary English<\/a><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>Pushing the Boundaries of Historia.\u00a0 <\/em>Abingdon: Routledge, 2019.\u00a0 (co-edited with Lee M. Fratantuono)<\/strong><br \/>\nA collection of essays that highlight the intersections of ancient history, literature, and archaeology. The volume is dedicated to the editors&#8217; mentor, Blaise Nagy, upon his retirement from the College of the Holy Cross.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>A New Latin Primer.\u00a0 <\/em>New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.\u00a0 (co-edited with Georgia L. Irby)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>A New Latin Primer: Workbook.<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nInstructor&#8217;s Resource Manual to Accompany A New Latin Primer.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>A Little Latin Reader<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.\u00a0 2nd edition, 2017.\u00a0 (co-edited with Georgia L. Irby)<\/strong><br \/>\nOffers beginning students a solid overview of Latin grammar, syntax, and vocabulary. It provides concise, straightforward grammatical explanations and illustrates them with unadapted Latin examples so that students can learn from Roman authors how to employ the syntax under discussion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/profilepages\/view_profile.php?username=germans\">Senta German<\/a><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>Performance, Power, and the Art of the Aegean Bronze Age<\/em>.\u00a0 Oxford: Archaeopress, 2005.<\/strong><br \/>\nExplores the practice and political meaning of performance in the 2nd millennium BCE in Greece.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/profilepages\/view_profile.php?username=gillg\">Glen Gill<\/a><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>Northrop Frye on Twentieth Century Literature<\/em>.\u00a0 Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010.<\/strong><br \/>\nCollects Northrop Frye&#8217;s writings on twentieth-century literature, including his incisive book on T.S. Eliot and major essays on James Joyce, W.B. Yeats, Wallace Stevens, and George Orwell.\u00a0 Edited and introduced by Gill.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Northrop Frye and the Phenomenology of Myth<\/em>.\u00a0 Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006.<\/strong><br \/>\nNorthrop Frye&#8217;s theories of myth are compared to those of other major mythologists, including the psychological, literary, and religious theories of C.G. Jung, Joseph Campbell, and Mircea Eliade.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/profilepages\/view_profile.php?username=jonespr\">Prudence Jones<\/a><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>Reading Rivers in Roman Literature and Culture<\/em>.\u00a0 Lanham: Lexington Press, 2005.<\/strong><br \/>\nExamines rivers as a literary phenomenon, particularly in the poetry of Virgil.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Cleopatra: A Sourcebook<\/em>.\u00a0 Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006.<\/strong><br \/>\nDocuments what we know of Cleopatra from ancient sources and also presents examples of the reception of Cleopatra in literature and art.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/profilepages\/view_profile.php?username=larsonv\">Victoria Larson<\/a><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>The Role of Description in Senecan Tragedy.<\/em>\u00a0 Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1994.<\/strong><br \/>\nConsiders Senecan tragedy as an amalgam of narrative and dramatic &#8220;modes,&#8221; or as a kind of &#8220;epic tragedy,&#8221; and the role that description plays therein.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>\u00a0My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt<\/em>.\u00a0 Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999.<\/strong><br \/>\nA translation of the autobiography of one of the leading international actresses of her day with an introductory essay and notes.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>My Beloved Toto: Letters from Juliette Drouet to Victor Hugo, 1833-1882<\/em>.\u00a0 Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005.<\/strong><br \/>\nA translation of a selection from fifty years of letters written by the sometime actress Juliette Drouet to her lover, Victor Hugo, with an introduction, extensive notes, and glossary.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/profilepages\/view_profile.php?username=rennert\">Timothy Renner<\/a><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>Columbia Papyri<\/em>.\u00a0 vol. VIII.\u00a0 Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1990.\u00a0 (co-edited with Roger S. Bagnall, Klaas A. Worp)<\/strong><br \/>\nA critical edition of fragmentary Greek papyri from Egypt containing both literature as well as documents of everyday life, 3rd century BC &#8211; 4th century AD.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/profilepages\/view_profile.php?username=salzmanp\">Patricia Salzman<\/a><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>A Web of Fantasies: Gaze, Image, and Gender in Ovid&#8217;s <\/em>Metamorphoses.\u00a0 Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2005.<\/strong><br \/>\nStudies the interactions between gaze, image, and gender in Ovid&#8217;s <em>Metamorphoses<\/em> using the perspectives of gender and film theory.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Latin Elegy and Narratology: Fragments of Story<\/em>.\u00a0 Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2008. 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