Modern critical theory and classical literature

by Jong, Irene J. F. de Sullivan, J. P., (John Patrick)

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Full title :Modern critical theory and classical literature / edited by Irene J.F. de Jong and J.P. Sullivan.

Summary

In recent decades the study of literature in Europe and the Americas has been profoundly influenced by modern critical theory in its various forms, whether Structuralism or Deconstructionism, Hermeneutics, Reader-Response Theory or Rezeptionsasthetik, Semiotics or Narratology, Marxist, feminist, neo-historical, psychoanalytical or other perspectives. Whilst the value and validity of such approaches to literature is still a matter of some dispute, not least among classical scholars, they have had a substantial impact on the study both of classical literatures and of the mentalite of Greece and Rome. In an attempt to clarify issues in the debate, the eleven contributors to this volume were asked to produce a representative collection of essays to illustrate the applicability of some of the new approaches to Greek and Latin authors or literary forms and problems. The scope of the volume was deliberately limited to literary investigation, broadly construed, of Greek and Roman authors. Broader areas of the history and culture of the ancient world impinge in the essays, but are not their central focus. The volume also contains a separate bibliography, offering for the first time a complete bibliography of classical studies which incorporate modern critical theory.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1994.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):E.J. Brill
Place of Publication:Leiden
Language:eng
Publication Date:1994.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (vi, 292 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0585327459, 9780585327457, 9789004329263, 9004329269
DOI:10.1163/9789004329263.
oclc:ocm45842751
LC Classification:PA35
Dewey Decimal:880/.09

Subjects

Classical literature -- History and cri… Criticism, interpretation, etc Dichtkunst Griechisch Hermeneutik Klassieke talen Latein LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classic… Literatur Literatuurkritiek Littérature ancienne -- Histoire et cri…