Compromising Traditions
The Personal Voice in Classical Scholarship
Published on 11. September 2002
208 pages
978-1-134-76479-2 (ISBN)
Description
Compromising Traditions is the first collection of theoretically informed autobiographical writing in the field of classical studies which aims to create a more expansive and authoritative form of classical scholarship.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
File size
4,03 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-134-76479-2 (9781134764792)
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Judith P. Hallett | Thomas Van Nortwick
Compromising Traditions
The Personal Voice in Classical Scholarship
Book
12/1996
Routledge
€109.27
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Judith P. Hallett | Thomas Van Nortwick
Compromising Traditions
The Personal Voice in Classical Scholarship
Book
12/1996
Routledge
€62.70
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Persons
Judith P. Hallett is Professor of Classics at the University of Maryland at College Park. She has published widely on Latin literature, women in Greek and Roman antiquity, and the study of classics in the United States. Thomas Van Nortwick is Professor of Classics at Oberlin College, where he has taught since 1974. He has published a number of autobiographical essays, as well as scholarly articles on Greek and Latin literature, and a book, Somewhere I Have Never Travelled: the Second Self and the Hero's Journedy in Ancient Epic (1992).
Content
Introduction 1 Who do I think I am? 2 Reading and re-reading the helpful princess 3 Personal plurals 4 False things which seem like the truth 5 Proper voices: writing the writer 6 Getting personal about Euripides 7 Writing as an American in classical scholarship 8 A response 9 The authority of experience 10 Conclusion: what is classical scholarship for?
