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The art of reading : from Homer to Paul Celan / Jean Bollack ; translated by Catherine Porter and Susan Tarrow, with Bruce King ; edited by Christoph Koenig, Leonard Muellner, Gregory Nagy, and Sheldon Pollock.
Harvard University Digitized Book Collection Available online
Harvard University Digitized Book Collection- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bollack, Jean, author.
- Series:
- Hellenic studies ; 73.
- Hellenic studies series ; 73
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Classical literature--History and criticism.
- Classical literature.
- Classical philology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxxiv, 404 pages).
- Distribution:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University, 2016.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- These essays by Jean Bollack, an exemplary humanist of our time, is the first-long overdue-translation of a collection of his work into English. As the scope of the collection demonstrates, Bollack felt at home thinking in depth about two things that may seem starkly different to many. We see on the one hand the classics of Greek poetry and philosophy, including the relatively obscure, but in his hands illuminating, re-readings of Greek philosophy by the doxographers. And then there is the modern poetry of Mallarmé, Celan, and others. The author of monumental commentaries on the Oedipus Tyrannos of Sophocles and on the fragments of Empedocles, as well as studies and translations (with his wife, Mayotte Bollack) of the dramas of Aeschylus, Bollack cultivated in himself and in a generation of students and colleagues a way to read closely that is as uncompromising and demanding of the interpreter as it is of the reader of the interpretation. This wide-ranging but compact collection aims to show Anglophone readers how he reached beyond flat and conventional approaches to familiar works in order to awaken the reader anew to the aesthetics, the complexity, and the intelligence that careful reexamination of the text in context can bring to light. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Learning to Read 1
- 2 Reading the Philologists 11
- 3 Odysseus among the Philologists 15
- 4 Reflections on the Practice of Philology 47
- 5 Reading Myths 59
- 6 Purifications 65
- 7 An Anthropological Fiction 89
- 8 Reading Drama 109
- 9 An Act of Cultural Restoration: The Status Accorded to the Classical Tragedians by the Decree of Lycurgus 113
- 10 From Philology to Theater: The Construction of Meaning in Sophocles' Antigone 129
- 11 Accursed from Birth 137
- 12 Two Phases of Recognition in Sophocles' Electra 155
- 13 Reading the Cosmogonies 165
- 14 Empedocles: A Single Project, Two Theologies 167
- 15 The Parmenidean Cosmology of Parmenides 181
- 16 Expressing Differences 215
- 17 The Heraclitean Logos 217
- 18 Reading a Reference 247
- 19 The Scientistic Model: Freud and Empedocles 249
- 20 Benjamin Reading Kafka 257
- 21 Reading the Codes 317
- 22 A Sonnet, a Poetics-Mallarmé: "Le vierge, le vivace..." 319
- 23 Between Hölderlin and Celan 333
- 24 Grasping Hermeneutics 351
- 25 A Future in the Past Peter Szondi's Material Hermeneutics 353
- 26 Reading the Signifier 367
- 27 The Mountain of Death: The Meaning of Celan's Meeting with Heidegger 369.
- Notes:
- Translated from the French.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from resource home page (Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University, viewed on May 24, 2017).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Bollack, Jean. Art of reading.
- OCLC:
- 987961052
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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