The Philosophizing Muse

The Philosophizing Muse
Author: David Konstan
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2014-10-17
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1443869856

PIERIDES III, Editors: Myrto Garani and David Konstan Despite the Romans' reputation for being disdainful of abstract speculation, Latin poetry from its very beginning was deeply permeated by Greek philosophy. Philosophical elements and commonplaces have been identified and appreciated in a wide range of writers, but the extent of the Greek philosophical influence, and in particular the impact of Pythagorean, Empedoclean, Epicurean and Stoic doctrines, on Latin verse has never been fully in...

The Taste for Nothingness

The Taste for Nothingness
Author: Robert Sklenář
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2003
Genre: Chaotic behavior in systems in literature
ISBN: 9780472113101

The author explores the nihilistic view of the cosmos expressed by the poet and relates this perspective to the philosophical system of the Stoics

Structures of Epic Poetry

Structures of Epic Poetry
Author: Christiane Reitz
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 3199
Release: 2019-12-16
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3110491672

This compendium (4 vols.) studies the continuity, flexibility, and variation of structural elements in epic narratives. It provides an overview of the structural patterns of epic poetry by means of a standardized, stringent terminology. Both diachronic developments and changes within individual epics are scrutinized in order to provide a comprehensive structural approach and a key to intra- and intertextual characteristics of ancient epic poetry.