In Search of the Classic: Reconsidering the Greco-Roman Tradition, Homer to Valéry and BeyondPennsylvania State University Press, 1994 - 331 páginas The "classical," Steven Shankman argues, should not be confused with a particular historical period of Western antiquity, although it may owe its original articulation to the literary and philosophical explorations of ancient Greek authors. Shankman's book searches for and attempts to formulate the shape of the continuing presence--as embodied in particular literary works mainly from Western antiquity and the neoclassical and modern periods--of what the author calls a "classical" understanding of literature. For Shankman, literature, defined from a classical perspective, is a coherent, compelling, and rationally defensible representation that resists being reduced either to the mere recording of material reality or to the bare exemplification of an abstract philosophical precept. He derives his definition largely from his reading of Greek literature from Homer through Plato, from the history of literary criticism, and from the Greco-Roman tradition in English, American, and French literature. Shankman reveals unsuspected yet convincing connections among authors of such widely disparate times and places. His idea of the "classic" that authorizes these connections is presented as normative, thus making possible the evaluation of literary works and, in turn, forthright discussion of what constitutes the "literary" as distinct from other kinds of discourse. Shankman's study runs counter to a strong tendency of contemporary criticism that argues precisely against any distinct category of the "literary." He offers a series of interpretations that cumulatively advance theoretical discussion by challenging scholars to rethink the critical paradigms of postmodernism. At the center of the book is a discussion of the quintessentially classic Valéry poem Le Cimetière marin and the classic qualities it shares with Pindar's third Pythian ode, from which Valéry derives the epigraph for his poem. |
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... genre theory in “ The Law of Genre , " on difference rather than sameness ( and participation in a common “ form ” ) that Ralph Cohen critiques in “ History and Genre , ” New Literary History 17 ( 1985–86 ) : 203–18 . Cohen remarks , as ...
... genre , paying special attention to the genre's emphasis on poetic craft virtually for its own sake . Pastoral as Motif and Genre The first " official " pastorals are the Idylls of Theocritus , which would date the genre as emerging in ...
... genre in Alexandrian Greece from its very inception . I went on to show how subsequent writers of the genre had always to contend with this legacy of Alexandrian preciosity . In the chapters in Part 3 ( “ Resisting the Didactic Heresy ...
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Rationalism Ancient and Modern | 33 |
Gullivers Travels and the Classical | 49 |
Aristotle on Tragedy | 63 |
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Soliciting Darkness: Pindar, Obscurity, and the Classical Tradition John T. Hamilton Vista de fragmentos - 2003 |
Voegelin, Schelling, and the Philosophy of Historical Existence Jerry Day Vista previa limitada - 2003 |