Allusion, Authority, and Truth

Critical Perspectives on Greek Poetic and Rhetorical Praxis
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-3-11-024539-4
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 460 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 845 g

Reihe: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes

Questions about how ancient Greek texts establish their authority, reflect on each other, and project their own truths have become central for a wide range of recent critical discourses. In this volume, an influential group of international scholars examines these themes in a variety of poetic and rhetorical genres. The result is a series of striking and original readings from different critical perspectives that display the centrality of these questions for understanding the poetic and rhetorical aims of ancient Greek texts. Characterized by a combination of close attention to philological detail and theoretical sophistication, the essays in this volume make a compelling case for this kind of focused, critically informed dialogue about the nature of ancient textual praxis. Students of classical literature will find a wealth of critical insights and challenging new readings of many familiar texts.

Zielgruppe

Academics, Libraries, Institutes

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tsagalis, Christos

Mitsis, Phillip

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Griechische & Byzantinische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Lateinische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Rezeption, literarische Einflüsse und Beziehungen

Über Autor(innen)

Phillip Mitsis, New York University, USA, and Christos Tsagalis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.