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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Pauline A. LeVen (Professor, Yale University, Connecticut)Publisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press Dimensions: Width: 18.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 25.30cm Weight: 0.860kg ISBN: 9781107018532ISBN 10: 1107018536 Pages: 386 Publication Date: 16 January 2014 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , 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: definitions, methods, prejudices of reception; 1. A collection of unrecollected authors? The corpus and its problems; 2. New music and its myths: rhetoric, persona, and the theatre stage; 3. Musical lives: reading through the lives of the poets; 4. The language of new music: poetics of compounds and baroque aesthetics; 5. From authority to fantasy: narrative, voice, fictionality; 6. A canon set in stone? Epigraphy, literacy, musical tourism; Conclusion.Reviews'The reader will be impressed by the detailed analysis of the poems as well as by the insightful engagement with other sources ... the publication of the first ever monograph to be devoted entirely to ... late classical Greek lyric poetry deserves to be celebrated.' Theodora A. Hadjimichael, Greek and Roman Musical Studies Author InformationPauline A. LeVen is Assistant Professor of Classics at Yale University, Connecticut. She has published articles on Timotheus' language, Athenaeus and the reception of New Music, Aristotle's Hymn to Virtue and fourth-century epigraphy, and is now working on a monograph devoted to the anecdote as a narrative and social practice. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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