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Paperback. Etat : Very good. Pap. Octavo. xiv, 263 pp. Minor shelf wear. Publisher's remainder mark on bottom edge of text block. Else clean. This is an unusual and original contribution to literary theory. Michael Silk is a classicist, but his book is concerned not only with the literature of antiquity, but also with the theory of literature as such: it investigates an aspect of poetic imagery in the practical context of ancient poetry. In the course of the investigation, many illustrative passages from English verse are discussed, but the corpus of poetry chosen for particular attention is early Greek lyric and drama (up to and including Aeschylus and Pindar) and the several hundred relevant passages from this corpus are examined systematically. Dr Silk formulates a new critical concept, 'interaction', to characterize certain features of metaphor and other imagery and explores in detail their nature and significance. Besides interaction itself, many subsidiary 'matters arising' are given substantial treatment: there are discussions of related issues in the fields of stylistics and literary theory, new thoughts on various aspects of ancient literature (notions of Greco-Roman theorists as well as practices of Greek poets), and above all, important contributions to the theory and practice of 'literary lexicography' in a dead language. Digitally printed first paperback version.…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 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.…