Pindar and the sublime

Pindar and the sublime: Greek myth, reception, and lyric experience

by Fowler, R. L., (Robert Louis)

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"The 'Theban eagle', as Thomas Gray famously called him, Pindar has often been taken as the archetype of the sublime poet: soaring into the heavens on wings of language and inspired by visions of eternity. In this much-anticipated new study, Robert Fowler asks in what ways the concept of the sublime can still guide a reading of the greatest of the Greek lyric poets. Working with ancient and modern treatments of the topic, especially the poetry and writings of Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843), ar…

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  • Full title :Pindar and the sublime : Greek myth, reception, and lyric experience / Robert L. Fowler.

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"The 'Theban eagle', as Thomas Gray famously called him, Pindar has often been taken as the archetype of the sublime poet: soaring into the heavens on wings of language and inspired by visions of eternity. In this much-anticipated new study, Robert Fowler asks in what ways the concept of the sublime can still guide a reading of the greatest of the Greek lyric poets. Working with ancient and modern treatments of the topic, especially the poetry and writings of Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843), arguably Pindar's greatest modern reader, he develops the case for an aesthetic appreciation of Pindar's odes as literature. Building on recent trends in criticism, he shifts the focus away from the first performance and the orality of Greek culture to reception and the experience of Pindar's odes as text. This change of emphasis yields a fresh discussion of many facets of Pindar's astonishing art, including the relation of the poems to their occasions, performativity, the poet's persona, his imagery, and his myths. Consideration of Pindar's approach to divinity, transcendence, time, and the limits of language reveals him to be not only a great writer but a great thinker".--

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2022

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Bloomsbury Academic
  • Place of Publication:London
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:©2022

The Physical Object

  • Description:xii, 261 pages : : illustration ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781350198166, 1350198161, 9781788311144, 1788311140
  • oclc:on1258674538
  • LC Classification:PA4276
  • Dewey Decimal:884/.01

Table of Contents

Sublime Receptions. Ancient perceptions of Pindar -- Preliminary remarks on early modern receptions -- Abraham Cowley and English receptions -- Boileau, Perrault and Pindar -- Herder and the exaltation of genius -- Edmund Burke -- Immanuel Kant -- Reaction to Kant: Friedrich Schiller -- Friedrich Hölderlin -- Lyric parataxis -- Ancient and modern receptions in conversation -- Shared Experience. The first Pythian -- Primary and secondary (and tertiary) audiences -- The lyric 'now' and lyric experience : Being there -- Occasions: The Pindaric kōmos -- Personae, performativity and authors -- Pindar acting 'Pindar' -- 'So I too' : Pindar's 'I' and us -- The shadow's dream -- On the razor's edge : The poet, the kairos, art and politics -- Exceeding Limits. Greek myth, Greek religion -- Transcendence and immanence -- Personifications -- Probing the boundary of eternity -- Divine epiphanies -- In and out of time : Pindaric temporality -- 'As when' : Pindaric metaphor and the limits of language.

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Subjects

Criticism, interpretation, etc Greek poetry Greek poetry -- History and criticism Pindar Poésie grecque -- Histoire et critique Sublime dans la littérature Sublime, The, in literature

Writers

Fowler, R. L., (Robert Louis)

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