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Ancient Literary Criticism Andrew Laird (Reader in Classical Literature, Warwick University)

Ancient Literary Criticism By Andrew Laird (Reader in Classical Literature, Warwick University)

Ancient Literary Criticism by Andrew Laird (Reader in Classical Literature, Warwick University)

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The insights of Greek and Roman critics continue to influence contemporary thought and literary theory. These insights are also central to a proper understanding of the cultural history of classical antiquity.

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Ancient Literary Criticism by Andrew Laird (Reader in Classical Literature, Warwick University)

The volume makes widely available some important scholarship on the canonical texts of ancient rhetoric and poetics. Whilst there are numerous studies of general trends in classical criticism, this collection offers direct discussions of primary sources, which provide a useful companion to the Russell and Winterbottom anthology, Ancient Literary Criticism. The volume contains a chronology, suggestions for further reading, a new translation of Bernays' 1857 essay on katharsis, and an important introductory chapter addressing the tension in ancient literary criticism between its place in the classical tradition and its role in contemporary endeavours to reconstruct ancient culture.

Ancient Literary Criticism Reviews

This collection...will be of use to both beginners and advanced students. * Brian Vickers, TLS *
valuable collection * Andrew Ford, Hermathena *

About Andrew Laird (Reader in Classical Literature, Warwick University)

Andrew Laird is Reader in Classical Literature, Warwick University.

Table of Contents

1. The value of ancient literary criticism ; 2. Poetic inspiration in early Greece ; 3. Homeric professors in the age of the sophists ; 4. A theory of imitation in Plato's 'Republic' ; 5. Plato and Aristotle on the denial of tragedy ; 6. Ethos and dianoia: 'character' and 'thought' in Aristotle's Poetics ; 7. Aristotle on the effect of tragedy ; 8. Literary criticism in the exegetical scholia to the Iliad: a sketch ; 9. Stoic readings of Homer ; 10. Epicurean poetics ; 11. Rhetoric and criticism ; 12. Theories of evaluation in the rhetorical works of Dionysius of Halicarnassus ; 13. Longinus: structure and unity ; 14. The structure of Plutarch's 'De audiendis poetis' ; 15. Ars poetica ; 16. Ovid on reading: reading Ovid. reception in Ovid 'Tristia' II ; 17. Reading and response in the 'Dialogues' ; 18. The Virgil commentary of Servius ; 19. Ancient literary genres - a mirage? ; 20. Criticism ancient and modern

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NPB9780199258659
9780199258659
0199258651
Ancient Literary Criticism by Andrew Laird (Reader in Classical Literature, Warwick University)
Andrew Laird (Reader in Classical Literature, Warwick University)
Oxford Readings in Classical Studies
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Hardback
Oxford University Press
2006-05-04
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