Pindar and the Emergence of Literature

ISBN-13: 9781107116634 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 384 str.

Boris Maslov

Opis

This book demonstrates Pindar's importance for the coming into being of literature as it has been conceived of in the West.

Spis treści

Introduction: archaeologies of literature; 1. Authors, forms, and the creation of a literary culture; 2. Image, metaphor, concept: the semantics of poetic language; 3. Speech acts, social personas, and poetic veridiction; 4. Genre hybridity and the literary artefact; Epilogue: poetry and immortality.