Ananios of Kleitor - Poems & Fragments and Their Reception from Antiquity to the Present

Economou, George

ISBN 10: 1848610335 / ISBN 13: 9781848610330

Edité par Shearsman Books, Exeter, 2009

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8vo; 144 pages; Contents clean and secure in original pictorial wrappers. Ananios of Kleitor introduces to the revolving stage of world literature the work of an ancient Greek poet ' largely unknown outside a small circle of cognoscenti. The poet's extant poems and fragments, as well as the record of their reception and preservation, are presented in this one-of-a-kind book, a medley of verse and prose and a diversity of genres, ranging from the epistolary novel to scholarly annotations and an Index Nominum. Ananios and his scholars and commentators perform their work at the edge of the real world and the margins of a thoroughly historicized and critically acute context.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Ananios of Kleitor - Poems & Fragments and Their Reception from Antiquity to the Present
• Éditeur: Shearsman Books, Exeter
• Date de parution: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1848610335
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781848610330
• Reliure: Original pictorial wrappers.
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Literature in Translation
  • Classical Studies
  • Poetry

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Synopsis

Ananios of Kleitor introduces to the revolving stage of world literature the work of an ancient Greek poet largely unknown and hitherto unread outside of a small circle of cognoscenti. The poet's extant poems and fragments, as well as the record of their reception and preservation, are presented in this one-of-a-kind book of the sort that would have appealed to Menippus of Gadara and his followers, a medley of verse and prose and a diversity of genres, ranging from the epistolary novel to scholarly annotations and an Index Nominum. Ananios and his scholars and commentators perform their work at the edge of the real world and the margins of a thoroughly historicized and critically acute context.

À propos de l'auteur

George Economou was born in Great Falls, Montana, and was educated at Colgate and Columbia Universities. Named twice as Fellow in Poetry by the National Endowment for the Humanities, he has also held fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies. He retired as Professor Emeritus of English after forty-one years of teaching, the last seventeen of which were at the University of Oklahoma. He lives in Philadelphia and Wellfleet, Massachusetts.