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Author : Ruurd R. Nauta
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004351141
A study of the phenomenon of literary patronage, both non-imperial and imperial, during the reign of the Roman emperor Domitian (81-96 A.D.). The central texts are the Epigrams of Martial and the Silvae of Statius.
Author : Ruurd R. Nauta
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004108858
A study of the phenomenon of literary patronage, both non-imperial and imperial, during the reign of the Roman emperor Domitian (81-96 A.D.). This work centres on the "Epigrams" of Martial and the "Silvae" of Statius. The book deals not only with the relationships between poets and patrons, but also with the audiences and the functions of patron-oriented poetry. It includes discussions of such topics as "patronage" versus "friendship," the poetic "I," the role of poetry at symposia and festivals, dedication and publication, the influence of rhetoric on poetry, and the poetic representation of imperial power. The book should prove of interest not only to specialists in Roman poetry, but also to ancient historians and to students of literary patronage in other cultures. All Latin and Greek is translated.
Author : Simon Hornblower,Catherine Morgan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007-02-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199296729
A collection of essays, by a stellar team of authors, about the praise (`epinikian') poetry of the classical poets Pindar and Bacchylides. The social and physical, as well as the literary, background to these poems celebrating athletic victory is explored in light of the latest archaeological and sociological insights.
Author : Simon Hornblower,Catherine Morgan
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007-02-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191537981
Ancient sport made a huge if indirect contribution to the literature of ancient Greece, since some sixty poems by Pindar and Bacchylides ('epinikian odes'), written to commemorate victories, survive from the Classical period. This book is a collection of essays about that literature, and about the social and physical context for which it was written. The editors assembled an internationally distinguished team of speakers for the original 2002 seminar series held in London, and these papers form the backbone of the book. But to ensure coherence and comprehensive coverage, they have commissioned three further papers, and have themselves written a long thematic Introduction. The result is a stellar team of authors, and a book which looks at an important literary phenomenon in light of the latest archaeological and sociological insights, as well as evaluating the poetry both as poetry and as a performance genre with distinctive characteristics.
Author : Nina Katchadourian
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-08
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781452126869
A witty and thought-provoking collection of visual poems constructed from stacks of books. Delighting in the look and feel of books, conceptual artist Nina Katchadourian’s playful photographic series proves that books’ covers—or more specifically, their spines—can speak volumes. Over the past two decades, Katchadourian has perused libraries across the globe, selecting, stacking, and photographing groupings of two, three, four, or five books so that their titles can be read as sentences, creating whimsical narratives from the text found there. Thought-provoking, clever, and at times laugh-out-loud funny (one cluster of titles from the Akron Museum of Art’s research library consists of: Primitive Art /Just Imagine/Picasso/Raised by Wolves), Sorted Books is an enthralling collection of visual poems full of wry wit and bookish smarts. Praise for Sorted Books “Katchadourian’s project . . . takes on a weight beyond its initial novelty. It’s a love letter to books, book collecting and the act of reading.” —San Francisco Chronicle “As a longtime fan of [Katchadourian’s] long-running Sorted Books project I’m thrilled for the release of Sorted Books—a collection spanning nearly two decades of her witty and wise minimalist mediations on life by way of ingeniously arranged book spines. . . . In an era drowned in periodic death tolls for the future of the physical book, her project stands as a celebration of the spirit embedded in the magnificent materiality of the printed page.” —Brain Pickings “Katchadourian’s stacks possess an understated sophistication; they are true to the intimate nature of books and yet reveal their dramatic features and unexpected potential.” —Publishers Weekly
Author : Deborah McGrady
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487503659
The Writer's Gift or the Patron's Pleasure? introduces a new approach to literary patronage through a reassessment of the medieval paragon of literary sponsorship, Charles V of France. Traditionally celebrated for his book commissions that promoted the vernacular, Charles V also deserves credit for having profoundly altered the literary economy when bypassing the traditional system of acquiring books through gifting to favor the commission. When upturning literary dynamics by soliciting works to satisfy his stated desires, the king triggered a multi-generational literary debate concerned with the effect a work's status as a solicited or unsolicited text had in determining the value and purpose of the literary enterprise. Treating first the king's commissioned writers and then canonical French late medieval authors, Deborah McGrady argues that continued discussion of these competing literary economies engendered the concept of the "writer's gift," which vernacular writers used to claim a distinctive role in society based on their triple gift of knowledge, wisdom, and literary talent.
Author : Beatrice Gruendler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317832379
This book gives an insight into panegyrics, a genre central to understanding medieval Near Eastern Society. Poets in this multi-ethnic society would address the majority of their verse to rulers, generals, officials, and the urban upper classes, its tone ranging from celebration to reprimand and even to threat.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Poetry
ISBN : IOWA:31858033158332
Author : Library of Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1512 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : OSU:32435076471762
Author : Peter Robinson
Publisher : Poetry and Lup
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789622539
Poetry & Money: A Speculation is a study of relationships between poets, poetry, and money from Chaucer to contemporary times. It begins by showing how trust is essential to the creation of value in human exchange, and how money can, depending on conditions, both enable and disable such trustfully collaborative generations of value. Drawing upon a vast range of poetry for its exemplifications, the book includes studies of poetic hardship, religious verse and debt redeeming, the South Sea Bubble and the economic revolution, debates between metallic and paper currency in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as modernist struggles with the gold standard, depression, inflation, and the realised groundlessness of exchange value. With its practitioner's attention to the minutiae of poetic technique, it considers analogies between words and coins, and between poetic rhythm and the circulation of currencies in an economy. Through its close readings of poems over many centuries directly or indirectly engaged with money, it proposes ways in which, while we cannot escape monetary economies, we can resist, to some extent, being ensnared and diminished by them - through a fresh understanding of values money may serve to enable, but ones which are nevertheless beyond price.
Author : Monica Gale
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004-12-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781914535116
How is it possible for a poet to find his own individual voice, when he is writing in a tradition so venerable and so constrained by convention as Roman epic? How do poets working in related genres - particularly didactic - conceptualize their relationship to the main epic tradition? The eleven essays in this volume, by leading scholars in the field of Roman poetry and its post-Classical receptions, consider some of the strategies which writers from Lucretius onwards have employed in negotiating their relationship with their literary forebears, and staking out a place for their own work within a tradition stretching back to Hesiod and Homer.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004466715
Brill's Companion to Theocritus offers an up-to-date guide to a thorough understanding of Theocritus’ literary output. Exploring his corpus from a variety of novel perspectives, it presents a detailed account of the intricacy of Theocritus’ poetic art.
Author : Monica R. Gale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1994-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0521451353
This book attempts to provide a more positive assessment of Lucretius' aims and methodology by considering the poet's attitude to myth, and the role which it plays in the De Rerum Natura, against the background of earlier and contemporary views.
Author : Robert McKinney
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2004-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789047404392
This book examines the life and times and poetry of the extremely prolific and versatile ‘Abbāsid poet Ibn al-Rūmī (d. 283/896). Particular attention is devoted to tracing the influences in his distinctive poetic style and themes.
Author : Ehsan Yarshater
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786736666
The second volume in this series presents the reader with an extensive study of some major genres of Persian poetry from the first centuries after the rise of Islam to the end of the Timurid era and the inauguration of Safavid rule in the beginning of the sixteenth century. The authors explore the development of poetic genres, from the panegyric (qaside), to short lyrical poems (ghazal), and the quatrains (roba'i), tracing the stylistic evolution of Persian poetry up to 1500 and examine the vital role of these poetic forms within the rich landscape of Persian literature.