Politics of Form in Greek Literature

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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The Politics of Form in Greek Literature explores the relationship between form and political life specifically in Greek textual culture. In the last generation or so, classicists (and their counterparts in other disciplines) have begun to pay greater attention to the socio-historical contexts of literary production and sought to historicize aesthetic practice. However, historicism (and in particular New Historicism) is only one mode of approaching the question of form, which is increasingly brought into dialogue with a number of other issues (e.g. gender). Bringing together contributions from a range of experts, this volume examines these and other related approaches, assessing their limitations and discussing possibilities for the future. Individual chapters discuss an array of ancient authors, including Homer, Sophocles, Euripides, Plato, Aristotle, Callimachus, and more, and sketch out the specifically Greek contribution to the debate, as well as the implications for other disciplines. What emerges from this book are new ways of thinking about form, and indeed about politics, that will be of value to scholars and students across the humanities and social sciences.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-06-29
Mått:154 x 234 x 20 mm
Vikt:460 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:312
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350191594

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Phiroze Vasunia is Professor of Greek at University College London, UK. He is author of The Classics and Colonial India (2013) and co-editor (with D. L. Selden) of The Oxford Handbook of the Literatures of the Roman Empire (in progress) and (with Susan A. Stephens) of Classics and National Cultures (2010). He is series editor of Bloomsbury's Ancients and Moderns series.

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Quite an achievement ... opens the floor to further discussions (and practices), to be developed in the following years inside and outside academy.

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Acknowledgements List of IllustrationsList of ContributorsIntroductionPhiroze Vasunia, University College London, UKPart I: Verse (and Some Prose)1. Disagreement, Complexity and the Politics of Homer’s Verbal FormAhuvia Kahane, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland2. Sophocles’ Antigone, Feminism’s Hegel and the Politics of FormSimon Goldhill, University of Cambridge, UK3. The Aporia of Action and the Agency of Form in Euripides’ Iphigeneia in AulisVictoria Wohl, University of Toronto, Canada4. Forms of SurvivalSusan Stephens, Stanford University, USA Part II: Prose (and Some Verse)5. The Politics of Informed Form: Plato and Walter BenjaminAndrew Benjamin, Monash University, Australia6. Plato’s Seventh Letter, or How to Fashion a Subject of ResistancePaul Allen Miller, University of South Carolina, USA7. Body Politics in Aristotle's Poetics and RhetoricNancy Worman, Barnard College/Columbia University, USA8. Aristotle’s Lost Works for the Public and the Politics of Academic FormEdith Hall, King’s College London, UK9. Politics and Form in XenophonRosie Harman, University College London, UKPart III: Word and Image10. The Politics of Form in Eighteenth-Century Visions of Ancient GreeceDaniel Orrells, King’s College London, UK11. Ekphrasis, Leo Spitzer and the Politics of FormRuth Webb, Université Lille, FranceNotesBibliographyIndex