
Texts, Ideas, and the Classics
Scholarship, Theory, and Classical Literature
S. J. Harrison(Editor)
Oxford University Press
Published on 13. September 2001
Book
Hardback
344 pages
978-0-19-924746-2 (ISBN)
Description
This book aims to promote a simple idea: that, in the contemporary context of the study and interpretation of classical literature at universities, traditional classical scholarship and modern theoretical ideas need to work with each other in the common task of the interpretation of texts. Such dialogue and co-operation is not merely desirable; it is essential to ensure the survival and relevance of the study of classical literature in the twenty-first century.
The purpose of this book is protreptic, to speak both to the sceptical and non-sceptical and to suggest to both the importance of the topic. The topics selected were chosen by a panel of distinguished practitioners as traditional areas of classical literary studies where the importance of co-operation of theory and scholarship could be shown in different ways by scholars who ranged widely in their views: 'literary language', 'narrative', 'genre', 'historicism', and 'reception and history of scholarship'.
The purpose of this book is protreptic, to speak both to the sceptical and non-sceptical and to suggest to both the importance of the topic. The topics selected were chosen by a panel of distinguished practitioners as traditional areas of classical literary studies where the importance of co-operation of theory and scholarship could be shown in different ways by scholars who ranged widely in their views: 'literary language', 'narrative', 'genre', 'historicism', and 'reception and history of scholarship'.
Reviews / Votes
There is not an unintelligient or uninteresting essay in this entire volume Barchiesi and Henderson are must-reads, and the witty introductions of Swain and Reeve delightful. * Religious Studies Review *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
622 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-924746-2 (9780199247462)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Fellow and Tutor in Classics, Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Editor
Fellow and Tutor in ClassicsFellow and Tutor in Classics, Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Content
The Snares of the Odyssey: Feminist and Narratological Readings ; Foreshadowing and Suspense in Herodotus ; Latin Studies in Germany 1933-45: Institutional Conditions, Political Pressures, Scholarly Consequences ; Pindar meets Plato: Theory, Style and the Classics ; Metatext and its functions in Greek Lyric Poetry ; The Crossing ; Explaining Them to Us: Polybius ; Giants on the Shoulders of Dwarfs? Considerations on the Value of Renaissance and Early Modern Scholarship for Today's Classicists ; Introduction: Historicism ; Introduction: Genre ; Purity in Danger: The Contextual Life of Savants ; Introduction: Reception/History of Scholarship ; Introduction: Narrative