On Coming After
Download and Read On Coming After full books in PDF, ePUB, and Kindle. Read online free On Coming After ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
On Coming After
Author | : Richard Hunter |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 929 |
Release | : 2009-02-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3110210304 |
Download On Coming After Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book gathers together many of the principal essays of Richard Hunter, whose work has been fundamental in the modern re-evaluation of Greek literature after Alexander and its reception at Rome and elsewhere. At the heart of Hunter’s work lies the high poetry of Ptolemaic Alexandria (Callimachus, Theocritus, and Apollonius of Rhodes) and the narrative literature of later antiquity (‘the ancient novel’), but comedy, mime, didactic poetry and ancient literary criticism all fall within the scope of these studies. Principal recurrent themes are the uses and recreation of the past, the modes of poetic allusion, the moral purposes of literature, the intellectual context for ancient poetry, and the interaction of poetry and criticism. What emerges is not a literature shackled to the past and cowed by an ‘anxiety of influence’, but an energetic and constantly experimental engagement with both past and present.
On Coming After Related Books
Pages: 929
Pages: 193
Pages: 220
Pages: 135
Pages: 541