| Author | : Friedrich Von Schlegel |
| Publisher | : SUNY Press |
| Total Pages | : 164 |
| Release | : 2001-01-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780791448304 |
Available for the first time in English, this study offers insights into the genesis of German Romanticism.
On the Study of Greek Poetry
| Author | : Friedrich Schlegel |
| Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
| Total Pages | : 160 |
| Release | : 2001-01-11 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0791491382 |
While ostensibly an examination of classical Greek poetry, Friedrich Schlegel's On the Study of Greek Poetry is a signal document in the development of German Romantic aesthetics. In it, Schlegel outlines the development of classical and post-classical cultures, showing clearly that an entirely new mode of cultural production is necessary. On the Study of Greek Poetry has been at the center of the discussions of German Romanticism by German scholars such as Peter Szondi and Manfred Frank, and this translation makes an important text in the genesis of German Romanticism available for the first time in English. The book also includes a critical introduction as well as annotations that elucidate Schlegel's numerous allusions.
On the Study of Greek Poetry
| Author | : Friedrich Von Schlegel |
| Publisher | : SUNY Press |
| Total Pages | : 160 |
| Release | : 2001-01-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780791448298 |
Available for the first time in English, this study offers insights into the genesis of German Romanticism.
Poetry and Its Public in Ancient Greece
| Author | : Bruno Gentili |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 412 |
| Release | : 1990-02 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
Brilliantly applying insights and methodologies from anthropology, literary theory, and the social sciences to the historical study of archaic lyric, Poetry and Its Public in Ancient Greece, winner of Italy's prestigious Viareggio Prize, develops a new Picture of the literary history of Greece. An essentially practical art, ancient Greek poetry was clocely linked to the realities of social and political life and to the actual behavior of individuals within a community. Its mythological content was didactic and pedagogical. But Greek poetry differs radically from modern forms in its mode of communication: it was designed not for reading but for performance, with musical accompaniment, before an audience. In analyzing the formal and social aspects of this performance context, Gentili illuminates such topics as oral composition and improvisation, oral transmission and memory, the connections betweek poetry and music, the changing socioeconomic situation of the artist, and the relations among poets, patrons, and the public.
Lyric Poetry and Social Identity in Archaic Greece
| Author | : Jessica Romney |
| Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
| Total Pages | : 265 |
| Release | : 2020-04-22 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0472131850 |
Lyric Poetry and Social Identity in Archaic Greece examines how Greek men presented themselves and their social groups to one another. The author examines identity rhetoric in sympotic lyric: how Greek poets constructed images of self for their groups, focusing in turn on the construction of identity in martial-themed poetry, the protection of group identities in the face of political exile, and the negotiation between individual and group as seen in political lyric. By conducting a close reading of six poems and then a broad survey of martial lyric, exile poetry, political lyric, and sympotic lyric as a whole, Jessica Romney demonstrates that sympotic lyric focuses on the same basic behaviors and values to construct social identities regardless of the content or subgenre of the poems in question. The volume also argues that the performance of identity depends on the context as well as the material of performance. Furthermore, the book demonstrates that sympotic lyric overwhelmingly prefers to use identity rhetoric that insists on the inherent sameness of group members. All non-English text and quotes are translated, with the original languages given alongside the translation or in the endnotes.
Greek Lyric Poetry
| Author | : M. L. West |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 241 |
| Release | : 2008-09-11 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 019954039X |
The Greek lyric, elegiac and iambic poets of the two centuries from 650 to 450 BCE produced some of the finest poetry of antiquity. This new poetic translation captures the nuances of meaning and the whole spirit of this poetry.
Genre in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry
| Author | : Margaret Foster |
| Publisher | : Mnemosyne, Supplements |
| Total Pages | : 408 |
| Release | : 2020 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9789004411425 |
Genre in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetryforegrounds innovative approaches to the question of genre, what it means, and how to think about it for ancient Greek poetry and performance. Embracing multiple definitions of genre and lyric, the volume pushes beyond current dominant trends within the field of Classics to engage with a variety of other disciplines, theories, and models. Eleven papers by leading scholars of ancient Greek culture cover a wide range of media, from Sappho's songs to elegiac inscriptions to classical tragedy. Collectively, they develop a more holistic understanding of the concept of lyric genre, its relevance to the study of ancient texts, and its relation to subsequent ideas about lyric.
Space, Place, and Landscape in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture
| Author | : Kate Gilhuly |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 295 |
| Release | : 2014-09-22 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1139992716 |
This book brings together a collection of original essays that engage with cultural geography and landscape studies to produce new ways of understanding place, space, and landscape in Greek literature from the fifth and fourth centuries BCE. The authors draw on an eclectic collection of contemporary approaches to bring the study of ancient Greek literature into dialogue with the burgeoning discussion of spatial theory in the humanities. The essays in this volume treat a variety of textual spaces, from the intimate to the expansive: the bedroom, ritual space, the law courts, theatrical space, the poetics of the city, and the landscape of war. And yet, all of the contributions are united by an interest in recuperating some of the many ways in which the ancient Greeks in the archaic and classical periods invested places with meaning and in how the representation of place links texts to social practices.
Nakedness is My End
| Author | : Edmund Keeley |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2018 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 9780999261330 |
Edited and Translated from the Greek by Edmund Keeley. A new translation of poetic masterpieces spanning Greece's Archaic and Golden Age to Byzantium. In these beautiful renderings Edmund Keeley displays his sensitivity as a translator and his imagination as a poet. The verses spring to life for a new generation of readers who will delight in the inventiveness, wit, and honesty of essential ancient Greek voices such as Plato, Leonidas, Callimachus, Meleager, Honestus, Strato, and Palladas. One of the foremost translators of the 20th century, Edmund Keeley has received international acclaim for his translations of the Greek poets C.P. Cavafy, George Seferis, Yannis Ritsos, and Odysseas Elytis. "The Ancients did not mince words when it came to love and death. Edmund Keeley's stunning translation brings Ancient Greek pith and urgency into the 21st Century: playful and oracular, Nakedness is My End is an essential study of human life in lyric form."--Karen Emmerich "The Ancients did not mince words when it came to love and death. Edmund Keeley's stunning translation brings Ancient Greek pith and urgency into the 21st Century: playful and oracular, Nakedness is My End is an essential study of human life in lyric form."--Karen Emmerich "In Keeley's lucid translations, we find just what we need: grace, humor, beauty, good advice, and succor; all that poetry has been bringing us through the darkness for these thousands of years. This expertly selected collection will remind you to 'treat yourself entirely to what good things there are.'"--Eleni Sikelianos "A new English translation of ancient masterworks, Nakedness is My End (World Poetry Books) contains poetry from Plato, Strato, Palladas, and others in a way that is accessible and meaningful for the modern reader." -- Princeton Alumni Weekly Poetry.
