Scale Space And Canon In Ancient Literary Culture
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Scale Space and Canon in Ancient Literary Culture
Author | : Reviel Netz |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 905 |
Release | : 2020-02-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781108481472 |
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A history of ancient literary culture told through the quantitative facts of canon, geography, and scale.
The Cambridge Critical Guide to Latin Literature
Author | : Roy Gibson,Christopher Whitton |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 1132 |
Release | : 2024-01-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781108369183 |
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The Cambridge Critical Guide to Latin Literature offers a critical overview of work on Latin literature. Where are we? How did we get here? Where to next? Fifteen commissioned chapters, along with an extensive introduction and Mary Beard's postscript, approach these questions from a range of angles. They aim not to codify the field, but to give snapshots of the discipline from different perspectives, and to offer provocations for future development. The Critical Guide aims to stimulate reflection on how we engage with Latin literature. Texts, tools and territories are the three areas of focus. The Guide situates the study of classical Latin literature within its global context from late antiquity to Neo-Latin, moving away from an exclusive focus on the pre-200 CE corpus. It recalibrates links with adjoining disciplines (history, philosophy, material culture, linguistics, political thought, Greek), and takes a fresh look at key tools (editing, reception, intertextuality, theory).
A New History of Greek Mathematics
Author | : Reviel Netz |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 541 |
Release | : 2022-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781108833844 |
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Engaging and comprehensive history of Greek mathematics, with full attention to social contexts and its place in world history.
Greek Literature and the Ideal
Author | : ALEXANDER. KIRICHENKO |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2022-09-15 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9780192866707 |
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Greek Literature and the Ideal contends that the development of Greek literature was motivated by the need to endow political geography with a sense of purposeful structure. Alexander Kirichenko argues that Greek literature was a crucial factor in the cultural production of space, and Greek geography a crucial factor in the production of literary meaning. The book focuses on the idealizing images that Greek literature created of three spatial patterns of power distribution: a decentralized network of aristocratically governed communities (Archaic Greece); a democratic city controlling an empire (Classical Athens); and a microcosm of Greek culture located on foreign soil, ruled by quasi-divine royals, and populated by immigrants (Ptolemaic Alexandria). Kirichenko draws connections between the formation of these idealizing images and the emergence of such literary modes of meaning making as the authoritative communication of the truth, the dialogic encouragement to search for the truth on one's own, and the abandonment of transcendental goals for the sake of cultural memory and/or aesthetic pleasure. Readings of such canonical Greek authors as Homer, Hesiod, the tragedians, Thucydides, Plato, Callimachus, and Theocritus show that the pragmatics of Greek literature (the sum total of the ideological, cognitive, and emotional effects that it seeks to produce) is, in essence, always a pragmatics of space: there is a strong correlation between the historically conditioned patterns of political geography and the changing mechanisms whereby Greek literature enabled its recipients to make sense of their world.
Literature and Medicine
Author | : Anna M. Elsner,Monika Pietrzak-Franger |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 713 |
Release | : 2024-01-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781009300087 |
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The experiences of health and illness, death and dying, the normal and the pathological have always been an integral part of literary texts. This volume considers how the two dynamic fields of medicine and literature have crossed over, and how they have developed alongside one another. It asks how medicine, as both science and practice, shapes the representation of illness and transforms literary form. It considers how literary texts across genres and languages of disease have put forward specific conceptions of medicine and impacted its practice. Taking into account the global, multilingual and multicultural contexts, this volume systematically outlines and addresses this double-sidedness of the literature-medicine connection. Literature and Medicine covers a broad spectrum of conceptual, thematic, theoretical, and methodological approaches that provide a solid foundation for understanding a vibrant interdisciplinary field.
Early Latin Poetry
Author | : Jackie Elliott |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 137 |
Release | : 2022-04-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9789004518278 |
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This study offers an introduction to the fragmentary record of early Roman poetry. In focus are the contexts, practitioners, and reception of early Roman drama (excluding comedy), epic, and satire, along with the challenges which our evidence for these entails.
Body and Machine in Classical Antiquity
Author | : Maria Gerolemou,George Kazantzidis |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 2023-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781316514665 |
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The first systematic exploration of the multifaceted relationship between human bodies and machines in classical antiquity.
A History of English Georgic Writing
Author | : Paddy Bullard |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 711 |
Release | : 2022-12-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781009022415 |
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The interconnected themes of land and labour were a common recourse for English literary writers between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries, and in the twenty-first they have become pressing again in the work of nature writers, environmentalists, poets, novelists and dramatists. Written by a team of sixteen subject specialists, this volume surveys the literature of rural working lives and landscapes written in English between 1500 and the present day, offering a range of scholarly perspectives on the georgic tradition, with insights from literary criticism, historical scholarship, classics, post-colonial studies, rural studies and ecocriticism. Providing an overview of the current scholarship in georgic literature and criticism, this collection argues that the work of people and animals in farming communities, and the land as it is understood through that work, has provided writers in English with one of their most complex and enduring themes.