Book Description
Examines the relationship between the political/social climate during which books were written and the works themselves. This volume focuses on classical literature.
Author : Joyce Moss
Publisher : Gale Cengage
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 35,14 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Examines the relationship between the political/social climate during which books were written and the works themselves. This volume focuses on classical literature.
Author : Joyce Moss
Publisher : Gale Cengage
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 23,55 MB
Release : 1999
Category : African literature
ISBN : 9781414435800
Examines the relationship between the political/social climate during which books were written and the works themselves. This volume focuses on classical literature.
Author : Joyce Moss
Publisher : Gale Research International, Limited
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 39,44 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
This volume focuses on major fiction, poetry and non-fiction from Africa. Organized by title, it discusses 50 works through detailed essays.
Author : Richard Rutherford
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 25,38 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0470775262
This accessible one-volume survey of the literature of Greece and Rome covers the period between Homer around 700 BC and Augustine around AD 410. Highlights what is important historically and of continuing interest and value in classical literature. An introduction by the editor presents essential information in a concise, accessible way. Each chapter focuses on a particular genre or area of literature. This structure allows readers to see continuities between different periods and to move easily between the Greek and Roman worlds. Includes extensive quotations in English. A timeline and an index of authors help to make the material as accessible as possible.
Author : Rex Winsbury
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 24,77 MB
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0715638297
What was a Roman book? How did it differ from modern books? How were Roman books composed, published and distributed during the high period of Roman literature that encompassed, among others, Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Martial, Pliny and Tacitus? What was the ‘scribal art’ of the time? What was the role of bookshops and libraries? The publishing of Roman books has often been misrepresented by false analogies with contemporary publishing. This wide-ranging study re-examines, by appeal to what Roman authors themselves tell us, both the raw material and the aesthetic criteria of the Roman book, and shows how slavery was the ‘enabling infrastructure’ of literature. Roman publishing is placed firmly in the context of a society where the spoken still ranked above the written, helping to explain how some books and authors became politically dangerous and how the Roman book could be both an elite cultural icon and a contributor to Rome’s popular culture through the mass medium of the theatre.
Author : Amy Kelly
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 15,95 MB
Release : 1950
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674242548
An account of Queen Eleanor which describes her dramatic life as a queen, her marriages, and her contributions to that period.
Author : Richard Jenkyns
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 22,38 MB
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0465097987
The writings of the Greeks and Romans form the bedrock of Western culture. Inventing the molds for histories, tragedies, and philosophies, while pioneering radical new forms of epic and poetry, the Greeks and Romans created the literary world we still inhabit today. Writing with verve and insight, distinguished classicist Richard Jenkyns explores a thousand years of classical civilization, carrying readers from the depths of the Greek dark ages through the glittering heights of Rome's empire. Jenkyns begins with Homer and the birth of epic poetry before exploring the hypnotic poetry of Pindar, Sappho, and others from the Greek dark ages. Later, in Athens's classical age, Jenkyns shows the radical nature of Sophocles's choice to portray Ajax as a psychologically wounded warrior, how Aeschylus developed tragedy, and how Herodotus, in "inventing history," brought to narrative an epic and tragic quality. We meet the strikingly modern figure of Virgil, struggling to mirror epic art in an age of empire, and experience the love poems of Catullus, who imbued verse with obsessive passion as never before. Even St. Paul and other early Christian writers are artfully grounded here in their classical literary context. A dynamic and comprehensive introduction to Greek and Roman literature, Jenkyns's Classical Literature is essential reading for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the classics -- and the extraordinary origins of Western culture. "There is scarcely anything on which he does not offer an original aperç sometimes illuminating, sometimes simply provocative, but always worth reading... Jenkyns's view of ancient literature is Olympian." -- G.W. Bowersock, The New York Review of Books
Author : Johann Joachim Eschenburg
Publisher :
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 50,83 MB
Release : 1845
Category : Art, Ancient
ISBN :
Author : Apollonius (Rhodius.)
Publisher :
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 34,62 MB
Release : 1902
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Robert William Browne
Publisher :
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 47,45 MB
Release : 1852
Category : Classical literature
ISBN :