On Coming After (gebundenes Buch)
On Coming After
Studies in Post-Classical Greek Literature and its Reception, Trends in Classics, Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes 3
Erschienen am
12.12.2008
Bibliographische Informationen
ISBN/EAN: 9783110204414
Sprache: Englisch
Seiten: X, 907 S.
Auflage: 1. Auflage 2008
Bindung: gebundenes Buch
Beschreibung
This book gathers together many of the principal essays of Richard Hunter, whose work has been fundamental in the modern re-evaluation of Greek literature after Alexander and its reception at Rome and elsewhere. At the heart of Hunters work lies the high poetry of Ptolemaic Alexandria (Callimachus, Theocritus, and Apollonius of Rhodes) and the narrative literature of later antiquity (the ancient novel), but comedy, mime, didactic poetry and ancient literary criticism all fall within the scope of these studies. Principal recurrent themes are the uses and recreation of the past, the modes of poetic allusion, the moral purposes of literature, the intellectual context for ancient poetry, and the interaction of poetry and criticism. What emerges is not a literature shackled to the past and cowed by an anxiety of influence, but an energetic and constantly experimental engagement with both past and present.
Autorenportrait
Richard Hunter, University of Cambridge, U.K.
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