Poet's Voice Essays on Poetics and Greek Literature

Name: Poet's Voice Essays on Poetics and Greek Literature
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ISBN: 9780521395700

ISBN-10: 0521395704

ISBN-13: 9780521395700

Edition: 1991

Authors: Simon Goldhill

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"The object of this book," writes the author in his Preface, "is to investigate how poetry and the figure of the poet are represented, discussed, contested within the poetry of ancient Greece." Dr. Goldhill seeks to discover how ancient authors broached the questions: From what position does a poet speak? With what authority? With what debts to the past? With what involvement in the present? Through a series of interrelated essays on Homer, lyric poetry, Aristophanes, Theocritus and Apollonius of Rhodes, key aspects in the history of poetics are discussed: tale telling and the representation of man as the user of language; memorial and praise; parody, comedy and carnival; irony, masks and…

Book details

List price: $59.99
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/30/1990
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Preface



The poet hero: language and representation in the Odyssey


Recognition


Naming and disguise


Telling a tale


The voice of the bard



Intimations of immortality: fame and tradition from Homer to Pindar


Critical exchanges


The revisionary gleam


Poetics and politics


The limits of praise and the praise of limits



Comic inversion and inverted commas: Aristophanes and parody


The contest of public voices


Carnival and licence


Speaking out


Purloining the poet's voice



Framing, polyphony and desire: Theocritus and Hellenistic poetics


The programmatic voice


The pastoral frame


The lover's voice: the subject of desire


Courting fame



The paradigms of epic: Apollonius Rhodius and the example of the past


Back to the future


Opening and closing the text: singing and signing


Exemplarity (in brackets)


The explanation of the past: aetiology and the human sciences


Bibliography


Index