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Kirby, John T.

 
9780226437484: Secret of the Muses Retold: Classical Influences on Italian Authors of the Twentieth Century
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0226437485 ISBN 13 : 9780226437484
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2001

Synopsis

Precious repositories of ancient wisdom? Musty relics of outmoded culture? Timeless paragons of artistic achievement? Hegemonic tools of intellectual repression? Just what are the classics, anyway, and why do (or should) we still pay so much attention to them? What is the literary canon? What is myth, and how do we use it?

These are some of the questions that gave rise to John Kirby's Secret of the Muses Retold. This new study of works by five twentieth-century Italian writers investigates the abiding influence of the Greek and Roman classics, and their rich legacy in our own day. The result is not only a splendid introduction to contemporary Italian literature, but also a lucid and stimulating meditation on the insights that writers such as Umberto Eco and Italo Calvino have tapped from the wellspring of ancient tradition.

Kirby's book offers an impassioned plea for the recuperation of the humanities in general, and of classical studies in particular. No expertise in Greek, Latin, Italian, or literary theory is presumed, and both traditional and postmodern perspectives are accommodated.

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À propos de l'auteur

John T. Kirby is a professor of classics and comparative literature at Purdue University. His other books include The Rhetoric of Cicero's Pro Cluentio, The Comparative Reader: A Handlist of Basic Reading in Comparative Literature, and World Eras: Classical Greek Civilization, 800-323 B.C.E.

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Éditeur
University of Chicago Press
Date d'édition
2001
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0226437485
ISBN 13 
9780226437484
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
168
Coordonnées du fabricant
The University of Chicago Press
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