Reading Poetry, Writing Genre: English Poetry and Literary Criticism in Dialogue with Classical Scholarship - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1350039322 ISBN 13 : 9781350039322

Editeur : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018

Synopsis

This ground-breaking volume connects the situatedness of genre in English poetry with developments in classical scholarship, exploring how an emphasis on the interaction between English literary criticism and Classics changes, sharpens, or perhaps even obstructs views on genre in English poetry. Genre has classical roots: both in the etymology of the word and in the history of genre criticism, which begins with Aristotle. In a similar vein, recent developments in genre studies have suggested that literary genres are not given or fixed entities, but subjective and unstable (as well as historically situated), and that the reception of genre by both writers and scholars feeds back into the way genre is articulated in specific literary works. Classical scholarship, literary criticism, and genre form a triangle of key concepts for the volume, approached in different ways and with different productive results by contributors from across the disciplines of Classics and English literature. Covering topics from the establishment of genre in the Middle Ages to the invention of female epic and the epyllion, and bringing together the works of English poets from Milton to Tennyson to Josephine Balmer, the essays collected hereargue that the reception and criticism of classical texts play a crucial part in generic formation in English poetry.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Silvio Bär is Professor of Classics at the University of Oslo, Norway.

Emily Hauser is Senior Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter, UK. She is author of Mythica: A New History of Homer's World, Through the Women Written Out of It (2025), How Women Became Poets (2023) and For the Most Beautiful (2016). She is co-editor of Reading Poetry, Writing Genre (2018).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bloomsbury Academic
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1350039322
• ISBN 13: 9781350039322
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Éditeur: Bär Professor Silvio, Hauser Dr Emily
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; contact@bloomsbury.com; ; 50 Bedford Square; London; England; WC1B 3DP; Allemagne