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Byron's retelling of the Biblical tale of Cain's murder of his brother, Abel; Cain and Lucifer, here, are portrayed in a more positive light. The play is followed by Fabre d'Olivet's condemnation and argumentation against the theology espoused in…

This panoramic saga dates back perhaps as early as the seventh century, when oral narratives of the deeds of the prophet Muhammad's uncle Amir Hamza spread through Arabia, Persia, and the Indian subcontinent, expanding into a chronicle of warriors,…

Humanism has mostly considered the question "What does it mean to be human?" from a Western perspective. Dabashi asks it anew from a non-European perspective, in a groundbreaking study of 1,400 years of Persian literary humanism. He presents the…

A complete translation of the Greek poem recounting the experience of Odysseus during his return from the Trojan War.

An Examination of Platonism in Milton's Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson's Agonistes

"When Tolkien's Lord of the Rings appeared in 1954, it was eagerly sought by a rapidly widening community of readers while snootily dismissed by eminent critics as juvenile escapism. For many years most literary scholars refused to take Tolkien…