Ancient Literary Criticism
Author | : Donald Andrew Russell |
Publisher | : Oxford : Clarendon Press |
Total Pages | : 630 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Donald Andrew Russell |
Publisher | : Oxford : Clarendon Press |
Total Pages | : 630 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Yun Lee Too |
Publisher | : Clarendon Press |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 1999-02-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0191583987 |
Yun Lee Too offers a sustained reading of the social function of the body of texts we identify as 'ancient literary criticism' with major implications for how we understand this discourse and also modern criticism and literary theory. The author argues that when Greek and Roman authors discuss what and how to read in works, they are attempting to create and maintain the political community and its identity by regulating the languages available to it. Literary criticism is a process of discrimination between competing discourses, serving as a strategy by which certain forms of speech or writing may be pronounced legitimate at the expense of others. The volume traces ancient criticism from its origins in archaic Greek poetry through to the early Christian era. As well as reading the familiar texts of ancient criticism - Plato's Republic, Aristotle's Poetics, [Longinus] On the Sublime, amongst others - it shows how ancient law, history, and rhetoric participate in the critical process.
Author | : Andrew Laird |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 2006-05-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0199258651 |
The insights of Greek and Roman critics continue to influence contemporary thought and literary theory. These insights are also central to a proper understanding of the cultural history of classical antiquity.
Author | : |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2004-02-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0141913401 |
The works collected in this volume have profoundly shaped the history of criticism in the Western world: they created much of the terminology still in use today and formulated enduring questions about the nature and function of literature. In Ion, Plato examines the god-like power of poets to evoke feelings such as pleasure or fear, yet he went on to attack this manipulation of emotions and banished poets from his ideal Republic. Aristotle defends the value of art in his Poetics, and his analysis of tragedy has influenced generations of critics from the Renaissance onwards. In the Art of Poetry, Horace promotes a style of poetic craftsmanship rooted in wisdom, ethical insight and decorum, while Longinus' On the Sublime explores the nature of inspiration in poetry and prose.
Author | : Thomas Schmitz |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2008-04-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0470691530 |
This book provides students and scholars of classical literature with a practical guide to modern literary theory and criticism. Using a clear and concise approach, it navigates readers through various theoretical approaches, including Russian Formalism, structuralism, deconstruction, gender studies, and New Historicism. Applies theoretical approaches to examples from ancient literature Extensive bibliographies and index make it a valuable resource for scholars in the field
Author | : René Nünlist |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 459 |
Release | : 2009-03-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139476262 |
The large but underrated corpus of Greek scholia, the marginal and interlinear notes found in manuscripts, is a very important source for ancient literary criticism. The evidence of the scholia significantly adds to and enhances the picture that can be gained from studying the relevant treatises (such as Aristotle's Poetics): scholia also contain concepts that are not found in the treatises, and they are indicative of how the concepts are actually put to use in the progressive interpretation of texts. This book also demonstrates that it is vital to study both ancient terminology and the cases where a particular phenomenon is simply paraphrased. Nineteen thematic chapters provide a repertoire of the various terms and concepts of ancient literary criticism. The relevant witnesses are extensively quoted in Greek and English translation. A glossary of Greek terms (with translation) and several indices enable the book also to be used for reference.
Author | : Robert Matthew Calhoun |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 2020-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9783161594137 |
The Gospels continue to defy efforts to fix 'generic' boundaries for determining their meanings. This volume discloses new stirrings and sightings of broader, more heuristically promising literary, rhetorical, and cultural registers which intersect in ancient narrative . The contributors seek to build upon or vigorously critique current generic hypotheses (biography, history, tragedy); to introduce recent insights and developments in genre theory; to probe ancient reception of the Gospels as works of literature; and to illuminate the relations between the literary characteristics of the Gospels and methodological advances in narratology, social memory, intertextuality, and performance.
Author | : Nancy Worman |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 2015-12-30 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0521769558 |
Explores a new area of ancient literary theory and criticism by examining how landscape and metaphor shape discussions of style.
Author | : Andrew Ford |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2009-01-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1400825067 |
By "literary criticism" we usually mean a self-conscious act involving the technical and aesthetic appraisal, by individuals, of autonomous works of art. Aristotle and Plato come to mind. The word "social" does not. Yet, as this book shows, it should--if, that is, we wish to understand where literary criticism as we think of it today came from. Andrew Ford offers a new understanding of the development of criticism, demonstrating that its roots stretch back long before the sophists to public commentary on the performance of songs and poems in the preliterary era of ancient Greece. He pinpoints when and how, later in the Greek tradition than is usually assumed, poetry was studied as a discipline with its own principles and methods. The Origins of Criticism complements the usual, history-of-ideas approach to the topic precisely by treating criticism as a social as well as a theoretical activity. With unprecedented and penetrating detail, Ford considers varying scholarly interpretations of the key texts discussed. Examining Greek discussions of poetry from the late sixth century B.C. through the rise of poetics in the late fourth, he asks when we first can recognize anything like the modern notions of literature as imaginative writing and of literary criticism as a special knowledge of such writing. Serving as a monumental preface to Aristotle's Poetics, this book allows readers to discern the emergence, within the manifold activities that might be called criticism, of the historically specific discourse on poetry that has shaped subsequent Western approaches to literature.
Author | : Donald Andrew Russell |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780192839008 |
This volume provides, in translation, the principal texts of ancient literary criticism, including Aristotle's Poetics, Horace's Art of Poetry, Longinus' On Sublimity, Tacitus' Dialogues, and extracts from Plato and Plutarch.