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 | : Anna Marmodoro |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 439 |
Release | : 2013-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199670560 |
Explores the persona of the author in classical Greek and Latin authors from a range of disciplines and considers authority and ascription in relation to the authorial voice.
Author | : Laurent Pernot |
Publisher | : CUA Press |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0813214076 |
Originally published as La Rhétorique dans l'Antiquité (2000), this new English edition provides students with a valuable introduction to understanding the classical art of rhetoric and its place in ancient society and politics
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 | : M. A. R. Habib |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 848 |
Release | : 2008-04-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1405148845 |
This comprehensive guide to the history of literary criticism from antiquity to the present day provides an authoritative overview of the major movements, figures, and texts of literary criticism, as well as surveying their cultural, historical, and philosophical contexts. Supplies the cultural, historical and philosophical background to the literary criticism of each era Enables students to see the development of literary criticism in context Organised chronologically, from classical literary criticism through to deconstruction Considers a wide range of thinkers and events from the French Revolution to Freud’s views on civilization Can be used alongside any anthology of literary criticism or as a coherent stand-alone introduction
Author | : George Alexander Kennedy |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 584 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521300124 |
The history of the most hotly debated areas of literary theory, including structuralism and deconstruction.
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 | : J. W. H. Atkins |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2014-10-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107434637 |
Originally published in 1934, this book contains the first volume of Atkins' 'sketch' of the development of ancient literary criticism. Atkins begins his history with a look at the styles of literary criticism prevalent in ancient Greece, and includes the responses of figures such as Aristophanes, Plato and Callimachus to changes in the literature of their day. This work is aimed primarily at those with little to no classical background, and will be of value to anyone with an interest in literary criticism.
Author | : Sebastiana Nervegna |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2013-04-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 110732825X |
The comic playwright Menander was one of the most popular writers throughout antiquity. This book reconstructs his life and the legacy of his work until the end of antiquity employing a broad range of sources such as portraits, illustrations of his plays, papyri preserving their texts and inscriptions recording their public performances. These are placed within the context of the three social and cultural institutions which appropriated his comedy, thereby ensuring its survival: public theatres, dinner parties and schools. Dr Nervegna carefully reconstructs how each context approached Menander's drama and how it contributed to its popularity over the centuries. The resultant, highly illustrated, book will be essential for all scholars and students not just of Menander's comedy but, more broadly, of the history and iconography of the ancient theatre, ancient social history and reception studies.
Author | : Margaret Alexiou |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 604 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Byzantine literature |
ISBN | : 9780801433016 |
With the publication of Ritual Lament in Greek Tradition, widely considered a classic in Modern Greek studies and in collateral fields, Margaret Alexiou established herself as a major intellectual innovator on the interconnections among ancient, medieval, and modern Greek cultures. In her new, eagerly awaited book, Alexiou looks at how language defines the contours of myth and metaphor. Drawing on texts from the New Testament to the present day, Alexiou shows the diversity of the Greek language and its impact at crucial stages of its history on people who were not Greek. She then stipulates the relatedness of literary and "folk" genres, and assesses the importance of rituals and metaphors of the life cycle in shaping narrative forms and systems of imagery.Alexiou places special emphasis on Byzantine literary texts of the sixth and twelfth centuries, providing her own translations where necessary; modern poetry and prose of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; and narrative songs and tales in the folk tradition, which she analyzes alongside songs of the life cycle. She devotes particular attention to two genres whose significance she thinks has been much underrated: the tales (paramythia) and the songs of love and marriage.In exploring the relationship between speech and ritual, Alexiou not only takes the Greek language into account but also invokes the neurological disorder of autism, drawing on clinical studies and her own experience as the mother of autistic identical twin sons.