Hereditas : seven essays on the modern experience of the classical / edited with an introduction by Frederic Will.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Will, Frederic, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comparative literature--Classical and modern.

Comparative literature.

Comparative literature--Modern and classical.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (228 p.)

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, [1964]

Summary:

Is Ancient Greece still meaningful to the twenty-first-century world? The vitality of the classical tradition, which has been a long-enduring and important element in our culture, is the concern of the seven scholars who in this book present their answers to this question. In various ways their essays support editor Frederic Will's statement that the "complex and mature group of awarenesses" embodied in the classical tradition still help to maintain the continuity of human culture, thus sharing in the unbroken process of developing a Western civilization. These awarenesses are not self-perpetuating but must be sustained by the guardians of tradition—schools, literary creators and critics, libraries, and scholars. In this book, particular attention is devoted to the literary creators. In discussing the impact of Greek myth, Greek literature, and Greek philosophy on modern writers, the present essayists try to determine how alive Greek classical culture is today, how meaningful it is, and how it can be perpetuated. Through their presentations in these seven essays, the contributors prove that the tradition does not suffer from lack of able guardians. These studies in the interpretation of literature and thought afford stimulating evidence that the classical tradition is still alive in our modern age.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Introduction

PART ONE The Classical in Modern Literature

Gods, Heroes, and Rilke

Daedalian Imagery in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Kazantzakis’ Odyssey

The Embattled Myths

Pound and Propertius: Some Techniques of Translation

Amphitryon 38: Some Notes on Jean Giraudoux and Myth

PART TWO The Classical in Modern Religious Experience

The Place of the Classics in T. S. Eliot’s Christian Humanism

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4773-0041-4

OCLC:

1286807056