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Center for Hellenic Studies Colloquia Ser.: Matrices of Genre : Authors, Canons, and Society by Dirk Obbink (2000, Hardcover)

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PublisherHarvard University Press

ISBN-100674003381

ISBN-139780674003385

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Product Key Features

Number of Pages352 Pages

Publication NameMatrices of Genre : Authors, Canons, and Society

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2000

SubjectGeneral, Ancient & Classical

TypeTextbook

AuthorDirk Obbink

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism

SeriesCenter for Hellenic Studies Colloquia Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.1 in

Item Weight21.8 Oz

Item Length0.9 in

Item Width0.6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN00-040942

Dewey Edition21

ReviewsThis volume consists of a collection of eleven papers on genre and generic definition in Greek and Roman literature. The contributions are divergent in both subject and approach, ranging from seldom considered, even single-instance genres, to the reception of generic traditions in Hellenistic and Roman poetry...The volume contains scholarship of a high standard with stimulating contributions both in the higher and lower genres. It can be recommended to all interested in this apparently flourishing branch of literary analysis.

Series Volume Number4

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal880/.09

Table Of ContentIntroduction Mary Depew and Dirk Obbink 1. Generating Genres: The Idea of the Tragic Glenn W.Most 2. Epigram and Reader: Generic Force as (Re-)Activation of Ritual Joseph W.Day 3. Enacted and Represented Dedications: Genre and Greek Hymn Mary Depew 4. Formulas, Voice, and Death in Ehoie-Poetry, the Hesiodic Gunaikon Katalogos, and the Odysseian Nekuia Ian Rutherford 5. Herodotus' Genre(s) Deborah Boedeker 6. From Aristophanes to Menander: Genre Transformation in Greek Comedy Eric Csapo 7. Theocritus and the Demythologizing of Poetry Mario Fantuzzi 8. Lycophron's Alexandra: "Hindsight as Foresight Makes No Sense" Stephanie West 9. Rituals in Ink: Horace on the Greek Lyric Tradition Alessandro Bar Hiesi 10. The Dialectics of Genre: Some Aspects of Secondary Literature and Genre in Antiquity Ineke Sluiter 11. The Didactic Plot Don Fowler 12. Essential Epic: Genre and Gender from Macer to Statius Stephen Hinds Notes Bibliography Contributors IndexIn Memoriam Don Fowler

SynopsisThe literary genres given shape by the writers of classical antiquity are central to our own thinking about the various forms literature takes. Examining those genres, the essays collected here focus on the concept and role of the author and the emergence of authorship out of performance in Greece and Rome., The literary genres given shape by the writers of classical antiquity are central to our own thinking about the various forms literature takes. Examining those genres, the essays collected here focus on the concept and role of the author and the emergence of authorship out of performance in Greece and Rome. In a fruitful variety of ways the contributors to this volume address the questions: what generic rules were recognized and observed by the Greeks and Romans over the centuries; what competing schemes were there for classifying genres and accounting for literary change; and what role did authors play in maintaining and developing generic contexts? Their essays look at tragedy, epigram, hymns, rhapsodic poetry, history, comedy, bucolic poetry, prophecy, Augustan poetry, commentaries, didactic poetry, and works that "mix genres." The contributors bring to this analysis a wide range of expertise; they are, in addition to the editors, Glenn W. Most, Joseph Day, Ian Rutherford, Deborah Boedeker, Eric Csapo, Marco Fantuzzi, Stephanie West, Alessandro Barchiesi, Ineke Sluiter, Don Fowler, and Stephen Hinds. The essays are drawn from a colloquium at Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies.

LC Classification NumberPA39.M38 2000