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Politics of Form in Greek Literature

Vasunia Phiroze
Heftet / 2023 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781350191594
Publisert
2023-06-29
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
312

Redaktør
Vasunia Phiroze

Om bidragsyterne

Phiroze Vasunia is Professor of Greek at University College London, UK. He is author of The Classics and Colonial India (2013) and co-editor (with D. L. Selden) of The Oxford Handbook of the Literatures of the Roman Empire (in progress) and (with Susan A. Stephens) of Classics and National Cultures (2010). He is series editor of Bloomsbury's Ancients and Moderns series.

Politics of Form in Greek Literature

Vasunia Phiroze
Heftet / 2023 / Engelsk
Vasunia Phiroze
Heftet / 2023 / Engelsk
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Quite an achievement ... opens the floor to further discussions (and practices), to be developed in the following years inside and outside academy.

Bryn Mawr Classical Review

The Politics of Form in Greek Literature explores the relationship between form and political life specifically in Greek textual culture. In the last generation or so, classicists (and their counterparts in other disciplines) have begun to pay greater attention to the socio-historical contexts of literary production and sought to historicize aesthetic practice. However, historicism (and in particular New Historicism) is only one mode of approaching the question of form, which is increasingly brought into dialogue with a number of other issues (e.g. gender). Bringing together contributions from a range of experts, this volume examines these and other related approaches, assessing their limitations and discussing possibilities for the future. Individual chapters discuss an array of ancient authors, including Homer, Sophocles, Euripides, Plato, Aristotle, Callimachus, and more, and sketch out the specifically Greek contribution to the debate, as well as the implications for other disciplines. What emerges from this book are new ways of thinking about form, and indeed about politics, that will be of value to scholars and students across the humanities and social sciences.
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Acknowledgements List of IllustrationsList of ContributorsIntroduction Phiroze Vasunia, University College London, UK Part I: Verse (and Some Prose) 1. Disagreement, Complexity and the Politics of Homer’s Verbal Form Ahuvia Kahane, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland 2. Sophocles’ Antigone, Feminism’s Hegel and the Politics of Form Simon Goldhill, University of Cambridge, UK 3. The Aporia of Action and the Agency of Form in Euripides’ Iphigeneia in Aulis Victoria Wohl, University of Toronto, Canada4. Forms of SurvivalSusan Stephens, Stanford University, USA Part II: Prose (and Some Verse) 5. The Politics of Informed Form: Plato and Walter Benjamin Andrew Benjamin, Monash University, Australia 6. Plato’s Seventh Letter, or How to Fashion a Subject of Resistance Paul Allen Miller, University of South Carolina, USA 7. Body Politics in Aristotle's Poetics and Rhetoric Nancy Worman, Barnard College/Columbia University, USA 8. Aristotle’s Lost Works for the Public and the Politics of Academic Form Edith Hall, King’s College London, UK 9. Politics and Form in Xenophon Rosie Harman, University College London, UK Part III: Word and Image 10. The Politics of Form in Eighteenth-Century Visions of Ancient Greece Daniel Orrells, King’s College London, UK 11. Ekphrasis, Leo Spitzer and the Politics of Form Ruth Webb, Université Lille, France Notes Bibliography Index
Les mer
Quite an achievement ... opens the floor to further discussions (and practices), to be developed in the following years inside and outside academy.
Provides fresh analyses of the politics of form in ancient Greek literature through insights from a range of distinguished scholars.
Offers an up-to-date analysis that focuses particularly on Greek textual culture

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Quite an achievement ... opens the floor to further discussions (and practices), to be developed in the following years inside and outside academy.

Bryn Mawr Classical Review

The Politics of Form in Greek Literature explores the relationship between form and political life specifically in Greek textual culture. In the last generation or so, classicists (and their counterparts in other disciplines) have begun to pay greater attention to the socio-historical contexts of literary production and sought to historicize aesthetic practice. However, historicism (and in particular New Historicism) is only one mode of approaching the question of form, which is increasingly brought into dialogue with a number of other issues (e.g. gender). Bringing together contributions from a range of experts, this volume examines these and other related approaches, assessing their limitations and discussing possibilities for the future. Individual chapters discuss an array of ancient authors, including Homer, Sophocles, Euripides, Plato, Aristotle, Callimachus, and more, and sketch out the specifically Greek contribution to the debate, as well as the implications for other disciplines. What emerges from this book are new ways of thinking about form, and indeed about politics, that will be of value to scholars and students across the humanities and social sciences.
Les mer
Acknowledgements List of IllustrationsList of ContributorsIntroduction Phiroze Vasunia, University College London, UK Part I: Verse (and Some Prose) 1. Disagreement, Complexity and the Politics of Homer’s Verbal Form Ahuvia Kahane, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland 2. Sophocles’ Antigone, Feminism’s Hegel and the Politics of Form Simon Goldhill, University of Cambridge, UK 3. The Aporia of Action and the Agency of Form in Euripides’ Iphigeneia in Aulis Victoria Wohl, University of Toronto, Canada4. Forms of SurvivalSusan Stephens, Stanford University, USA Part II: Prose (and Some Verse) 5. The Politics of Informed Form: Plato and Walter Benjamin Andrew Benjamin, Monash University, Australia 6. Plato’s Seventh Letter, or How to Fashion a Subject of Resistance Paul Allen Miller, University of South Carolina, USA 7. Body Politics in Aristotle's Poetics and Rhetoric Nancy Worman, Barnard College/Columbia University, USA 8. Aristotle’s Lost Works for the Public and the Politics of Academic Form Edith Hall, King’s College London, UK 9. Politics and Form in Xenophon Rosie Harman, University College London, UK Part III: Word and Image 10. The Politics of Form in Eighteenth-Century Visions of Ancient Greece Daniel Orrells, King’s College London, UK 11. Ekphrasis, Leo Spitzer and the Politics of Form Ruth Webb, Université Lille, France Notes Bibliography Index
Les mer
Quite an achievement ... opens the floor to further discussions (and practices), to be developed in the following years inside and outside academy.
Provides fresh analyses of the politics of form in ancient Greek literature through insights from a range of distinguished scholars.
Offers an up-to-date analysis that focuses particularly on Greek textual culture

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781350191594
Publisert
2023-06-29
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
312

Redaktør
Vasunia Phiroze

Om bidragsyterne

Phiroze Vasunia is Professor of Greek at University College London, UK. He is author of The Classics and Colonial India (2013) and co-editor (with D. L. Selden) of The Oxford Handbook of the Literatures of the Roman Empire (in progress) and (with Susan A. Stephens) of Classics and National Cultures (2010). He is series editor of Bloomsbury's Ancients and Moderns series.

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