The poet's voice: essays on poetics and Greek literature

How are poetry and the figure of the poet represented, discussed, contested within the poetry of ancient Greece? From what position does a poet speak? With what authority? With what debts to the past? With what involvement in the present? Through a series of interrelated essays on Homer, lyric poetr...

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Beteilige Person: Goldhill, Simon 1957- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2024
Ausgabe:Second edition
Schriftenreihe:Cambridge classical classics
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009478250?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009478250?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009478250?locatt=mode:legacy
Zusammenfassung:How are poetry and the figure of the poet represented, discussed, contested within the poetry of ancient Greece? From what position does a poet speak? With what authority? With what debts to the past? With what involvement in the present? Through a series of interrelated essays on Homer, lyric poetry, Aristophanes, Theocritus and Apollonius of Rhodes, this landmark volume discusses key aspects of the history of poetics: tale-telling and the representation of man as the user of language; memorial and praise; parody, comedy and carnival; irony, masks and desire; the legacy of the past and the idea of influence. Detailed readings of major works of Greek literature and liberal use of critical writings from outside Classics help to align modern and ancient poetics in enlightening ways. This revised edition contains a substantial new Introduction which engages with critical and scholarly developments in Greek literature since the original publication
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Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 369 Seiten)
ISBN:9781009478250
DOI:10.1017/9781009478250