Modern critical theory and classical literature / edited by Irene J.F. de Jong and J.P. Sullivan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jong, Irene J. F. de.

Sullivan, J. P. (John Patrick)

Series:

Mnemosyne, Supplements 130.

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum, 0169-8958 ; 130

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Classical literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Classical literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 292 p. ) music ;

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill, 1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In recent decades the study of literature in Europe and the Americas has been profoundly influenced by modern critical theory in its various forms, whether Structuralism or Deconstructionism, Hermeneutics, Reader-Response Theory or Rezeptionsästhetik , Semiotics or Narratology, Marxist, feminist, neo-historical, psychoanalytical or other perspectives. Whilst the value and validity of such approaches to literature is still a matter of some dispute, not least among classical scholars, they have had a substantial impact on the study both of classical literatures and of the mentalité of Greece and Rome. In an attempt to clarify issues in the debate, the eleven contributors to this volume were asked to produce a representative collection of essays to illustrate the applicability of some of the new approaches to Greek and Latin authors or literary forms and problems. The scope of the volume was deliberately limited to literary investigation, broadly construed, of Greek and Roman authors. Broader areas of the history and culture of the ancient world impinge in the essays, but are not their central focus. The volume also contains a separate bibliography, offering for the first time a complete bibliography of classical studies which incorporate modern critical theory.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Irene J. F. De Jong and J. P. Sullivan

Introduction Critical Continuity and Contemporary Innovation / J. P. Sullivan

Between Word and Deed: Hidden Thoughts in the Odyssey / Irene J. F. De Jong

The Failure of Exemplarity / Simon Goldhill

Aeschylus’ Suppuants: A Psychoanalytic Study / Richard S. Caldwell

Elektra’s Kleos Aphthiton: Sophokles into Opera / Marianne Mcdonald

Simonides’ Ode to Scopas in Contexts / Glenn W. Glenn

Intertextuality and Theocritus 13 / A. Maria van Erp Taalman Kip

Speech-Acts and Sprachspiele: Making Peace in Plautus / Rip Cohen

Historicizing Reading: The Aesthetics of Reception and Horace’s ‘Soracte Ode’ / Ruurd R. Nauta

Postmodernism, Romantic Irony, and Classical Closure / Don Fowler

Philomela’s Web and the Pleasures of the Text: Reader and Violence in the Metamorphoses of Ovid / Charles Segal

General Bibliography / Irene J. F. De Jong and J. P. Sullivan

Notes on Contributors / Irene J. F. De Jong and J. P. Sullivan

Index Locorum / Irene J. F. De Jong and J. P. Sullivan

Supplements to Mnemosyne / J. M. Bremer , L. F. Janssen , H. Pinkster , H. W. Pleket , C. J. Ruijgh and P. H. Schrijvers.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-288) and index.

ISBN:

90-04-32926-9

0-585-32745-9

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004329263 DOI