Tony Harrison And The Classics

Author : Sandie Byrne
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Classical education
ISBN : 9780198861072

Get Book

Tony Harrison and the Classics by Sandie Byrne Pdf

Tony Harrison and the Classics comprises fifteen chapters examining the lasting importance of Tony Harrison's classical education, the extent of the influence of Greek and Roman texts on his subjects, themes, and styles, his contribution to knowledge and understanding of classical literature, his popularization of classical works, and his innovative treatment of classical drama in plays which have been performed globally. Harrison's work fosters debates about the role and perception of the classics and adaptations of classical literature in relation to education, 'high' and 'popular' culture, accessibility, and reception. A unifying theme of the collection is the way in which Harrison finds in classical literature fruitful matter for the articulation and dramatization of his longstanding preoccupations: language, class, access to art, and the causes and effects of war. Through his adaptations and translations, Harrison uses classical drama to stage interventions in modern politics, but neither idealizes nor romanticizes the ancient world, depicting inequality, bigotry, greed, and brutality.

Author : Edith Hall
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474299343

Get Book

Tony Harrison by Edith Hall Pdf

This is the first book-length study of the classicism of Tony Harrison, one of the most important contemporary poets in England and the world. It argues that his unique and politically radical classicism is inextricable from his core notion that poetry should be a public property in which communal problems are shared and crystallised, and that the poet has a responsibility to speak in a public voice about collective and political concerns. Enriched by Edith Hall's longstanding friendship with Harrison and involvement with his most recent drama, inspired by Euripides' Iphigenia in Tauris, it also asserts that his greatest innovations in both form and style have been direct results of his intense engagements with individual works of ancient literature and his belief that the ancient Greek poetic imagination was inherently radical. Tony Harrison's large body of work, for which he has won several major and international prizes, and which features on the UK National Curriculum, ranges widely across long and short poems, plays, translations and film poems. Having studied Classics at Grammar School and University and having translated ancient poets from Aeschylus to Martial and Palladas, Harrison has been immersed in the myths, history, literary forms and authorial voices of Mediterranean antiquity for his entire working life and his classical interests are reflected in every poetic genre he has essayed, from epigrams and sonnets to original stage plays, translations of Greek drama and Racine, to his experimental and harrowing film poems, where he has pioneered the welding of tightly cut video materials to tightly phrased verse forms. This volume explores the full breadth of his oeuvre, offering an insightful new perspective on a writer who has played an important part in shaping our contemporary literary landscape.

Author : S. J. Harrison
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191571138

Get Book

Living Classics by S. J. Harrison Pdf

This collection of essays explores the extensive use of Latin and Greek literary texts in a range of recent poetry written in English. It contains both contributions from poets, who include Tony Harrison, Seamus Heaney, and Michael Longley, talking about their uses of classical literature in their own work in lyric poetry and in theatre poetry, and essays from academic experts on the same topics. Living Classics asks why contemporary poets are returning to making versions of and allusions to Greek and Roman literature in their work, and interrogates the parallel interest of modern classical scholars in the contemporary reception of classical texts.

Author : Tony Harrison
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780571318353

Get Book

Tony Harrison Plays 1 by Tony Harrison Pdf

This first collection of Tony Harrison's poetry for the stage is made up of his masterly adaptations of the medieval cycle of The Mystery Plays.Includes The Nativity , The Passion and Doomsday , with an Introduction by Tony Harrison which places these Northern classics both in the context of the original cycle of plays and of Tony Harrison's own poetry.

Author : Sandie Byrne
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192605252

Get Book

Tony Harrison and the Classics by Sandie Byrne Pdf

Tony Harrison and the Classics comprises fifteen chapters examining the lasting importance of Tony Harrison's classical education, the extent of the influence of Greek and Roman texts on his subjects, themes, and styles, his contribution to knowledge and understanding of classical literature, his popularization of classical works, and his innovative treatment of classical drama in plays which have been performed globally. Harrison's work fosters debates about the role and perception of the classics and adaptations of classical literature in relation to education, 'high' and 'popular' culture, accessibility, and reception. A unifying theme of the collection is the way in which Harrison finds in classical literature fruitful matter for the articulation and dramatization of his longstanding preoccupations: language, class, access to art, and the causes and effects of war. Through his adaptations and translations, Harrison uses classical drama to stage interventions in modern politics, but neither idealizes nor romanticizes the ancient world, depicting inequality, bigotry, greed, and brutality.

Author : Sandie Byrne
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1997-05-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191583643

Get Book

Tony Harrison by Sandie Byrne Pdf

Tony Harrison: Loiner is published to celebrate the poet and playwright Tony Harrison's sixtieth birthday through an exploration of his work, including his best-known poem v.. Harrison (1937- ) has been called `our best English poet', and has been awarded a number of prizes for his poetry, including the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Royal Television Society Award, the Prix Italia, and the Whitbread Prize for Poetry. This book gives his work the serious critical attention it merits, with essays from a number of prominent contributors, including Richard Eyre and Melvyn Bragg, and a foreword by Grey Gowrie. The collection ranges from personal recollections of working with Tony Harrison and personal responses to his poems, to detailed critical analyses of his techniques and themes, covering Harrison's short poems and sonnet sequence, his plays, his television poem-films, and his libretti, spanning the years 1955-1997. A `loiner' is a native of Leeds, where Tony Harrison was born and spent the early part of his life, and from which he was dispossessed by the enforced translation of the state scholarship system. The word also connotes other aspects of Tony Harrison: the `loins' of his poetry—its energy and physicality—and the `loners' who are its main protagonists—men and women dispossessed of their class, nation, language, and identity. At sixty, Harrison is at his poetic peak, producing plays, film-scripts, libretti, journalistic responses to social and national strife, impassioned speeches of love and outrage—always in poetry. Tony Harrison: Loiner introduces the major themes and forms of our most exciting and cosmopolitan as well as technically accomplished poet, and reassesses his achievement and place in twentieth-century literature.

Author : Tony Harrison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : CAS EN 310
ISBN : 0906427983

Get Book

V by Tony Harrison Pdf

Tony Harrison's v. was written during the Miners' Strike of 1984-85 when he visited his parents' grave in a Leeds cemetery and found it vandalised by obscene graffiti. Channel Four's film of v. prompted extreme political and media reaction documented in the book's second edition (1989).

Author : Tony Harrison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0571197078

Get Book

Tony Harrison Plays 1 by Tony Harrison Pdf

This first collection of Tony Harrison's poetry for the stage is made up of his masterly adaptations of the medieval cycle of The Mystery Plays. Includes The Nativity, The Passion and Doomsday, with an Introduction by Tony Harrison which places these Northern classics both in the context of the original cycle of plays and of Tony Harrison's own poetry.

Author : Mary Beard
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002-05-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674008073

Get Book

The Invention of Jane Harrison by Mary Beard Pdf

Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928) is the most famous female Classicist in history, the author of books that revolutionized our understanding of Greek culture and religion. This lively and innovative portrayal of a fascinating woman raises the question of who wins (and how) in the competition for academic fame.

Author : Edith Hall,Henry Stead
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315446585

Get Book

A People's History of Classics by Edith Hall,Henry Stead Pdf

A People’s History of Classics explores the influence of the classical past on the lives of working-class people, whose voices have been almost completely excluded from previous histories of classical scholarship and pedagogy, in Britain and Ireland from the late 17th to the early 20th century. This volume challenges the prevailing scholarly and public assumption that the intimate link between the exclusive intellectual culture of British elites and the study of the ancient Greeks and Romans and their languages meant that working-class culture was a ‘Classics-Free Zone’. Making use of diverse sources of information, both published and unpublished, in archives, museums and libraries across the United Kingdom and Ireland, Hall and Stead examine the working-class experience of classical culture from the Bill of Rights in 1689 to the outbreak of World War II. They analyse a huge volume of data, from individuals, groups, regions and activities, in a huge range of sources including memoirs, autobiographies, Trade Union collections, poetry, factory archives, artefacts and documents in regional museums. This allows a deeper understanding not only of the many examples of interaction with the Classics, but also what these cultural interactions signified to the working poor: from the promise of social advancement, to propaganda exploited by the elites, to covert and overt class war. A People’s History of Classics offers a fascinating and insightful exploration of the many and varied engagements with Greece and Rome among the working classes in Britain and Ireland, and is a must-read not only for classicists, but also for students of British and Irish social, intellectual and political history in this period. Further, it brings new historical depth and perspectives to public debates around the future of classical education, and should be read by anyone with an interest in educational policy in Britain today.

Author : Tony Harrison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1990-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0571154964

Get Book

The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus by Tony Harrison Pdf

POETRY/PLAYS

Author : Tony Harrison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Poetry
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123574621

Get Book

Under the Clock by Tony Harrison Pdf

In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company's 70th birthday. The titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality of the Penguin list and will hark back to Penguin founder Allen Lane's vision of good books for all'. - a complete collection of previously unpublished poetry -political, tender, sexy, argumentative, passionate, and exposed.

Author : Tony Harrison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015009376388

Get Book

From The School of Eloquence by Tony Harrison Pdf

Author : Tony Harrison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Poetry
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110451049

Get Book

Laureate's Block by Tony Harrison Pdf

A favourite for Poet Laureate, Tony Harrison effectively scuppered his chances when he published the title poem of this collection in the Guardian. This book has a section of similar republican poems including The Abdication of King Charles III as well as a short sequence on the Bosnian War.

Author : Tony Harrison
Publisher : David Philip Publishers
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Drama
ISBN : UCSC:32106008442268

Get Book

Phaedra Britannica by Tony Harrison Pdf

Adaptation of Racine's tragedy, in verse, reset in British India. Memsahib, wife of British Governor, falls in love with stepson.