Ancient Literary Criticism

Author : Yun Lee Too
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1999-02-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191583988

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The Idea of Ancient Literary Criticism by Yun Lee Too Pdf

Yun Lee Too offers a sustained reading of the social function of the body of texts we identify as 'ancient literary criticism' with major implications for how we understand this discourse and also modern criticism and literary theory. The author argues that when Greek and Roman authors discuss what and how to read in works, they are attempting to create and maintain the political community and its identity by regulating the languages available to it. Literary criticism is a process of discrimination between competing discourses, serving as a strategy by which certain forms of speech or writing may be pronounced legitimate at the expense of others. The volume traces ancient criticism from its origins in archaic Greek poetry through to the early Christian era. As well as reading the familiar texts of ancient criticism - Plato's Republic, Aristotle's Poetics, [Longinus] On the Sublime, amongst others - it shows how ancient law, history, and rhetoric participate in the critical process.

Author : Donald Andrew Russell,Michael Winterbottom
Publisher : Oxford : Clarendon Press
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015066081723

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Ancient Literary Criticism by Donald Andrew Russell,Michael Winterbottom Pdf

Author : Thomas Schmitz
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780470691533

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Modern Literary Theory and Ancient Texts by Thomas Schmitz Pdf

This book provides students and scholars of classical literature with a practical guide to modern literary theory and criticism. Using a clear and concise approach, it navigates readers through various theoretical approaches, including Russian Formalism, structuralism, deconstruction, gender studies, and New Historicism. Applies theoretical approaches to examples from ancient literature Extensive bibliographies and index make it a valuable resource for scholars in the field

Author : Andrew Laird
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006-05-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199258659

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Ancient Literary Criticism by Andrew Laird Pdf

The insights of Greek and Roman critics continue to influence contemporary thought and literary theory. These insights are also central to a proper understanding of the cultural history of classical antiquity.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2004-02-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780141913407

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Classical Literary Criticism by Anonim Pdf

The works collected in this volume have profoundly shaped the history of criticism in the Western world: they created much of the terminology still in use today and formulated enduring questions about the nature and function of literature. In Ion, Plato examines the god-like power of poets to evoke feelings such as pleasure or fear, yet he went on to attack this manipulation of emotions and banished poets from his ideal Republic. Aristotle defends the value of art in his Poetics, and his analysis of tragedy has influenced generations of critics from the Renaissance onwards. In the Art of Poetry, Horace promotes a style of poetic craftsmanship rooted in wisdom, ethical insight and decorum, while Longinus' On the Sublime explores the nature of inspiration in poetry and prose.

Author : René Nünlist
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139476263

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The Ancient Critic at Work by René Nünlist Pdf

The large but underrated corpus of Greek scholia, the marginal and interlinear notes found in manuscripts, is a very important source for ancient literary criticism. The evidence of the scholia significantly adds to and enhances the picture that can be gained from studying the relevant treatises (such as Aristotle's Poetics): scholia also contain concepts that are not found in the treatises, and they are indicative of how the concepts are actually put to use in the progressive interpretation of texts. This book also demonstrates that it is vital to study both ancient terminology and the cases where a particular phenomenon is simply paraphrased. Nineteen thematic chapters provide a repertoire of the various terms and concepts of ancient literary criticism. The relevant witnesses are extensively quoted in Greek and English translation. A glossary of Greek terms (with translation) and several indices enable the book also to be used for reference.

Author : Donald Andrew Russell,Michael Winterbottom
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0192839004

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Classical Literary Criticism by Donald Andrew Russell,Michael Winterbottom Pdf

This volume provides, in translation, the principal texts of ancient literary criticism, including Aristotle's Poetics, Horace's Art of Poetry, Longinus' On Sublimity, Tacitus' Dialogues, and extracts from Plato and Plutarch.

Author : Robert Matthew Calhoun,David P. Moessner,Tobias Nicklas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3161594134

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Modern and Ancient Literary Criticism of the Gospels by Robert Matthew Calhoun,David P. Moessner,Tobias Nicklas Pdf

The Gospels continue to defy efforts to fix 'generic' boundaries for determining their meanings. This volume discloses new stirrings and sightings of broader, more heuristically promising literary, rhetorical, and cultural registers which intersect in ancient narrative . The contributors seek to build upon or vigorously critique current generic hypotheses (biography, history, tragedy); to introduce recent insights and developments in genre theory; to probe ancient reception of the Gospels as works of literature; and to illuminate the relations between the literary characteristics of the Gospels and methodological advances in narratology, social memory, intertextuality, and performance.

Author : Nancy Worman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780521769556

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Landscape and the Spaces of Metaphor in Ancient Literary Theory and Criticism by Nancy Worman Pdf

Explores a new area of ancient literary theory and criticism by examining how landscape and metaphor shape discussions of style.

Author : Andrew Ford
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400825066

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The Origins of Criticism by Andrew Ford Pdf

By "literary criticism" we usually mean a self-conscious act involving the technical and aesthetic appraisal, by individuals, of autonomous works of art. Aristotle and Plato come to mind. The word "social" does not. Yet, as this book shows, it should--if, that is, we wish to understand where literary criticism as we think of it today came from. Andrew Ford offers a new understanding of the development of criticism, demonstrating that its roots stretch back long before the sophists to public commentary on the performance of songs and poems in the preliterary era of ancient Greece. He pinpoints when and how, later in the Greek tradition than is usually assumed, poetry was studied as a discipline with its own principles and methods. The Origins of Criticism complements the usual, history-of-ideas approach to the topic precisely by treating criticism as a social as well as a theoretical activity. With unprecedented and penetrating detail, Ford considers varying scholarly interpretations of the key texts discussed. Examining Greek discussions of poetry from the late sixth century B.C. through the rise of poetics in the late fourth, he asks when we first can recognize anything like the modern notions of literature as imaginative writing and of literary criticism as a special knowledge of such writing. Serving as a monumental preface to Aristotle's Poetics, this book allows readers to discern the emergence, within the manifold activities that might be called criticism, of the historically specific discourse on poetry that has shaped subsequent Western approaches to literature.

Author : J. W. H. Atkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000379358

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Literary Criticism in Antiquity by J. W. H. Atkins Pdf

Originally published in 1934, this book contains the first volume of Atkins' 'sketch' of the development of ancient literary criticism. Atkins begins his history with a look at the styles of literary criticism prevalent in ancient Greece, and includes the responses of figures such as Aristophanes, Plato and Callimachus to changes in the literature of their day. This work is aimed primarily at those with little to no classical background and will be of value to anyone with an interest in literary criticism.

Author : Larry F. Norman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226591506

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The Shock of the Ancient by Larry F. Norman Pdf

The cultural battle known as the Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns served as a sly cover for more deeply opposed views about the value of literature and the arts. One of the most public controversies of early modern Europe, the Quarrel has most often been depicted as pitting antiquarian conservatives against the insurgent critics of established authority. The Shock of the Ancient turns the canonical vision of those events on its head by demonstrating how the defenders of Greek literature—rather than clinging to an outmoded tradition—celebrated the radically different practices of the ancient world. At a time when the constraints of decorum and the politics of French absolutism quashed the expression of cultural differences, the ancient world presented a disturbing face of otherness. Larry F. Norman explores how the authoritative status of ancient Greek texts allowed them to justify literary depictions of the scandalous. The Shock of the Ancient surveys the diverse array of aesthetic models presented in these ancient works and considers how they both helped to undermine the rigid codes of neoclassicism and paved the way for the innovative philosophies of the Enlightenment. Broadly appealing to students of European literature, art history, and philosophy, this book is an important contribution to early modern literary and cultural debates.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 762 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004498815

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Speech in Ancient Greek Literature by Anonim Pdf

The fifth volume of the Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative deals with speech: it discusses the types, modes and functions of speech in narrative, the boundaries between speech and narrative context, and the absence of speech (silence).

Author : Pelagia Goulimari
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135053017

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Literary Criticism and Theory by Pelagia Goulimari Pdf

This incredibly useful volume offers an introduction to the history of literary criticism and theory from ancient Greece to the present. Grounded in the close reading of landmark theoretical texts, while seeking to encourage the reader's critical response, Pelagia Goulimari examines: major thinkers and critics from Plato and Aristotle to Foucault, Derrida, Kristeva, Said and Butler; key concepts, themes and schools in the history of literary theory: mimesis, inspiration, reason and emotion, the self, the relation of literature to history, society, culture and ethics, feminism, poststructuralism, postcolonialism, queer theory; genres and movements in literary history: epic, tragedy, comedy, the novel; Romanticism, realism, modernism and postmodernism. Historical connections between theorists and theories are traced and the book is generously cross-referenced. With useful features such as key-point conclusions, further reading sections, descriptive text boxes, detailed headings, and with a comprehensive index, this book is the ideal introduction to anyone approaching literary theory for the first time or unfamiliar with the scope of its history.

Author : Concepción Cabrillana,Cecilia Criado,Mercedes Díaz de Cerio Díez
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443883979

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Ancient Epic by Concepción Cabrillana,Cecilia Criado,Mercedes Díaz de Cerio Díez Pdf

This book adopts a broad and multifaceted approach to that most preeminent of classical literature genres: the Epic. Set in the ancient world, from archaic Greece to imperial Rome, the scope of interest here extends, for comparative purposes, to Vedic and Sanskrit poetry, as well as the Medieval epic. This collection of papers by classicists from the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, embraces key themes in recent scholarship, such as the character of the hero, defined in terms of the conflict of power central to the epos, the metapoetic function of the bard as a literary reflection of epic style, and the manipulation of epic myth to fulfil new functions, such as retelling contemporary history and conveying mystic symbology. Topics rooted in archaic poetry, such as the reutilisation of the ogre character embodied in the Cyclops and the journey into the Underworld, are also explored in great detail. In all these studies, the intertextual nature of ancient writing is consistently addressed through discussions of the revisiting of Homeric poetry by authors such as the Greek tragedians, Empedocles, Plato, Virgil, Ovid, Seneca, Lucan, and Valerius Flaccus. The analysis of the heroic narrative offered in this volume includes both literary phenomena and the language of the epic itself; the reader is thus afforded the widest possible view of current critical perspectives in classical literature and linguistics. Such a comprehensive treatment of the most important genre in the ancient world grants the reader powerful insights into the way in which ancient literature was composed. This collection of studies, while making a substantial contribution to scholarship in this field, will also appeal to a varied academic readership, including researchers in classical literature and linguistics, as well as students of literary theory.