Critical Moments in Classical Literature: Studies in the Ancient View of Literature and Its Uses

ISBN-13: 9781108460477 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 225 str.

Richard Hunter

Opis

A series of innovative critical readings exploring how the ancients discussed the meaning of literary works and their importance in society.

Recenzje

'Critical Moments in Classical Literature is a curious book; deeply learned, elegantly written, and filled with subtle observations on a vast array or texts … The individual chapters are filled with insightful observations on countless ancient critical passages …' Hermathena

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Aristophanes' Frogs and the critical tradition; 2. Readings of Homer: Euripides' Cyclops; 3. Comic moments; 4. The ugly peasant and the naked virgins: Dionysius of Halicarnassus, On Imitation; 5. The grand and the less grand: 'Longinus', On the Sublime; 6. Reading for life: Plutarch, How the young man should study poetry.