
Pindar and the Emergence of Literature
Boris Maslov(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 16. January 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
384 pages
978-1-107-53909-9 (ISBN)
Description
Pindar and the Emergence of Literature places Pindar in the context of the evolution of Archaic Greek poetics. While presenting an in-depth introduction to diverse aspects of Pindar's art (authorial metapoetics, imagery, genre hybridization, religion, social context, and dialect), it seeks to establish a middle ground between cultural contextualism and literary history, paying attention both to poetry's historical milieu and its uncanny capacity to endure in time. With that methodological objective, the book marshals a new version of historical poetics, drawing both on theorists usually associated with this approach, such as Alexander Veselovsky, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Olga Freidenberg, and on T. S. Eliot, Hans Blumenberg, Fredric Jameson, and Stephen Greenblatt. The ultimate literary-historical problem posed by Pindar's poetics, which this book sets out to solve, is the transformation of pre-literary structures rooted in folk communal art into elements that still inform our notion of literature.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
4 Tables, black and white; 4 Halftones, color
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
555 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-107-53909-9 (9781107539099)
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Boris Maslov is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago. He has published many articles on ancient Greek literature and its reception, the comparative history of concepts, and the history of literary theory. He is a co-editor, with Ilya Kliger, of Persistent Forms: Explorations in Historical Poetics (2015).
Content
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.