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OverviewThis ground-breaking volume connects the situatedness of genre in English poetry with developments in classical scholarship, exploring how an emphasis on the interaction between English literary criticism and Classics changes, sharpens, or perhaps even obstructs views on genre in English poetry. “Genre” has classical roots: both in the etymology of the word and in the history of genre criticism, which begins with Aristotle. In a similar vein, recent developments in genre studies have suggested that literary genres are not given or fixed entities, but subjective and unstable (as well as historically situated), and that the reception of genre by both writers and scholars feeds back into the way genre is articulated in specific literary works. Classical scholarship, literary criticism, and genre form a triangle of key concepts for the volume, approached in different ways and with different productive results by contributors from across the disciplines of Classics and English literature. Covering topics from the establishment of genre in the Middle Ages to the invention of female epic and the epyllion, and bringing together the works of English poets from Milton to Tennyson to Josephine Balmer, the essays collected hereargue that the reception and criticism of classical texts play a crucial part in generic formation in English poetry. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Professor Silvio Bär , Dr Emily HauserPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic Weight: 0.558kg ISBN: 9781350039322ISBN 10: 1350039322 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 27 December 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Silvio Bär (University of Oslo) and Emily Hauser (Harvard University) 1: Amanda J. Gerber (Eastern New Mexico University) - Classical Pieces: Fragmenting Genres in Medieval England 2: Emma Buckley (University of St. Andrews) - “Poetry is a Speaking Picture”: Framing a Poetics of Tragedy in Late Elizabethan England 3: Ariane Schwartz (Harvard University/I Tatti Renaissance Library) - A Revolutionary Vergil: James Harrington, Poetry, and Political Performance 4: Caroline Stark (Howard University, Washington) - The Devouring Maw: Complexities of Classical Genre in Milton’s Paradise Lost 5: Juan Christian Pellicer (University of Oslo) - Georgic as Genre: The Scholarly Reception of Vergil in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain 6: Lilah Grace Canevaro (University of Edinburgh) - Rhyme and Reason: The Homeric Translations of Dryden, Pope, and Morris 7: Isobel Hurst (Goldsmiths, University of London) - From Epic to Monologue: Tennyson and Homer 8: Silvio Bär (University of Oslo) - The Elizabethan Epyllion: From Constructed Classical Genre to Twentieth-Century Genre Propre 9: Emily Hauser (Harvard University) - “Homer Undone”: Homeric Scholarship and the Invention of Female Epic 10: Fiona Cox (University of Exeter) - Generic “Transgressions” and the Personal Voice General Index Index of Passages CitedReviews[This book] aims `to map the history and development of English poetry and the literary criticism connected to it as a story of genre discourse in dialogue with classical scholarship' (p. 1). For certain contributors ... questions of genre are of primary concern, while for others ... genre appears in the midst of broader studies in reception. This is a positive, in the sense that those looking for work on classical reception (and translation) in English literature will find as much here as the reader interested specifically in the history of genre. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review * [This book] aims 'to map the history and development of English poetry and the literary criticism connected to it as a story of genre discourse in dialogue with classical scholarship' (p. 1). For certain contributors ... questions of genre are of primary concern, while for others ... genre appears in the midst of broader studies in reception. This is a positive, in the sense that those looking for work on classical reception (and translation) in English literature will find as much here as the reader interested specifically in the history of genre. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review * [This book] aims ‘to map the history and development of English poetry and the literary criticism connected to it as a story of genre discourse in dialogue with classical scholarship’ (p. 1). For certain contributors … questions of genre are of primary concern, while for others … genre appears in the midst of broader studies in reception. This is a positive, in the sense that those looking for work on classical reception (and translation) in English literature will find as much here as the reader interested specifically in the history of genre. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review * Author InformationSilvio Bär is Professor of Ancient Greek Literature at the University of Oslo, Norway. His research interests encompass Greek epic and lyric poetry, Attic tragedy, the Second Sophistic, mythography, rhetoric, intertextuality, narratology, and the reception of ancient themes in English literature and popular culture. Emily Hauser is a Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter, UK. Her research interests include ancient women writers, gender and authorship in the classical world, and the reception of classical women by contemporary female authors. She has published on women writers in ancient Greece and Rome, as well as the reception of the Odyssey in Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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