Texts, Ideas, and the Classics: Scholarship, Theory, and Classical Literature

Stephen Harrison, Michael Silk, Jerzy Danielewicz, Don Fowler, Irene de Jong, Lillian Doherty, Susanna Morton Braund, Alessandro Barchiesi, Marcus Wilson, Simon Swain, John Moles, John Henderson, Michael Reeve, Ingrid A. R. De Smet, Christopher Stray, and Peter Lebrecht Schmidt.

ISBN 10: 0199247463 / ISBN 13: 9780199247462

Edité par Oxford University Press, 2001

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2001 OUP hardcover reprint edition. Unread copy in very good condition.

This book aims to promote a simple idea: that, in the contemporary context of the study and interpretation of classical literature at universities, traditional classical scholarship and modern theoretical ideas need to work with each other in the common task of the interpretation of texts. Such dialogue and co-operation is not merely desirable; it is essential to ensure the survival and relevance of the study of classical literature in the twenty-first century.

The purpose of this book is protreptic, to speak both to the sceptical and non-sceptical and to suggest to both the importance of the topic. The topics selected were chosen by a panel of distinguished practitioners as traditional areas of classical literary studies where the importance of co-operation of theory and scholarship could be shown in different ways by scholars who ranged widely in their views: 'literary language', 'narrative', 'genre', 'historicism', and 'reception and history of scholarship'.

Contents:

List of Contributors
1. General Introduction: Working Together (Stephen Harrison)

LITERARY LANGUAGE
2. Introduction (Stephen Harrison)
3. Pindar Meets Plato: Theory, Language, Value, and the Classics (Michael Silk)
4. Metatext and its Functions in Greek Lyric Poetry (Jerzy Danielewicz)

NARRATIVE
5. Introduction (Don Fowler)
6. Picturing the Future: The Proleptic Ekphrasis from Homer to Vergil (Stephen Harrison)
7. The Anachronical Structure of Herodotus' Histories (Irene de Jong)
8. The Snares of the Odyssey: A Feminist and Narratological Reading (Lillian Doherty)

GENRE
9. Introduction (Susanna Morton Braund)
10. The Crossing (Alessandro Barchiesi)
11. Seneca's Epistles Reclassified (Marcus Wilson)

HISTORICISM
12. Introduction (Simon Swain)
13. A False Dilemma: Thucydides' History and Historicism (John Moles)
14. Polybius/Walbank (John Henderson)

RECEPTION/HISTORY OF SCHOLARSHIP
15. Introduction (Michael Reeve)
16. Giants on the Shoulders of Dwarfs? Considerations on the Value of Renaissance and Early Modern Scholarship for Today's Classicists (Ingrid A. R. De Smet)
17. Purity in Danger: The Contextual Life of Savants (Christopher Stray)
18. Latin Studies in Germany, 1933-1945: Institutional Conditions, Political Pressures, Scholarly Consequences (Peter Lebrecht Schmidt)

Bibliography
Index.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Texts, Ideas, and the Classics: Scholarship, Theory, and Classical Literature
• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date de parution: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0199247463
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780199247462
• Reliure: Hardcover
• État de l'article: Very Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Ancient World

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Synopsis

This book aims to promote a simple idea: that, in the contemporary context of the study and interpretation of classical literature at universities, traditional classical scholarship and modern theoretical ideas need to work with each other in the common task of the interpretation of texts. Such dialogue and co-operation is not merely desirable; it is essential to ensure the survival and relevance of the study of classical literature in the twenty-first century.

The purpose of this book is protreptic, to speak both to the sceptical and non-sceptical and to suggest to both the importance of the topic. The topics selected were chosen by a panel of distinguished practitioners as traditional areas of classical literary studies where the importance of co-operation of theory and scholarship could be shown in different ways by scholars who ranged widely in their views: 'literary language', 'narrative', 'genre', 'historicism', and 'reception and history of scholarship'.

À propos de l'auteur

Fellow and Tutor in Classics, Corpus Christi College, Oxford