I read Classics at Newnham College, Cambridge and held Junior Research Fellowships at Kings College, London and St. Anne’s College, Oxford. I was a founder member of the Department of Classics at the University of Warwick where I taught for many years before taking early retirement in 2008 to focus on other things.
The works collected in this volume have profoundly shaped the history of criticism in the Western... more The works collected in this volume have profoundly shaped the history of criticism in the Western world: they created much of the terminology still in use today and formulated enduring questions about the nature and function of literature. In "Ion", Plato examines the god-like power of poets to evoke feelings such as pleasure or fear, yet he went on to attack this manipulation of emotions and banished poets from his ideal Republic. Aristotle defends the value of art in his "Poetics", and his analysis of tragedy has influenced generations of critics from the Renaissance onwards. In the "Art of Poetry", Horace promotes a style of poetic craftsmanship rooted in wisdom, ethical insight and decorum, while Longinus' "On the Sublime" explores the nature of inspiration in poetry and prose.
Fashions in Homeric scholarship come and go. The analysts and the Yugoslays have had their day: i... more Fashions in Homeric scholarship come and go. The analysts and the Yugoslays have had their day: it is now the turn of the unitarians. Modern scholarship, it is clear, is devoting more and more attention to the unity of the Iliad and the Odyssey and to their sophistication as epics organised by a single mind with a single purpose in view — and rightly so. To many scholars the only quasi-biographical question that remains a puzzle is whether we suppose one Homer or two, each man of genius responsible for a separate and individual poem of genius. But Homer (and I use the word in either the singular or the dual), Homer too has his view of the poet. And the problem is to reconcile this view with the prevailing orthodoxy. One of the strengths of the analyst position was that it could point to Homer’s own description of the bard in its defence: the Iliad and the Odyssey were composed of separate lays, composed it may be by separate persons, or at least for separate occasions, and sung in t...
Tienda online donde Comprar Genius: History of an Idea al precio 33,45 € de Penelope Murray, tien... more Tienda online donde Comprar Genius: History of an Idea al precio 33,45 € de Penelope Murray, tienda de Libros de Medicina, Libros de Psicologia - Psicologia General
The works collected in this volume have profoundly shaped the history of criticism in the Western... more The works collected in this volume have profoundly shaped the history of criticism in the Western world: they created much of the terminology still in use today and formulated enduring questions about the nature and function of literature. In "Ion", Plato examines the god-like power of poets to evoke feelings such as pleasure or fear, yet he went on to attack this manipulation of emotions and banished poets from his ideal Republic. Aristotle defends the value of art in his "Poetics", and his analysis of tragedy has influenced generations of critics from the Renaissance onwards. In the "Art of Poetry", Horace promotes a style of poetic craftsmanship rooted in wisdom, ethical insight and decorum, while Longinus' "On the Sublime" explores the nature of inspiration in poetry and prose.
Fashions in Homeric scholarship come and go. The analysts and the Yugoslays have had their day: i... more Fashions in Homeric scholarship come and go. The analysts and the Yugoslays have had their day: it is now the turn of the unitarians. Modern scholarship, it is clear, is devoting more and more attention to the unity of the Iliad and the Odyssey and to their sophistication as epics organised by a single mind with a single purpose in view — and rightly so. To many scholars the only quasi-biographical question that remains a puzzle is whether we suppose one Homer or two, each man of genius responsible for a separate and individual poem of genius. But Homer (and I use the word in either the singular or the dual), Homer too has his view of the poet. And the problem is to reconcile this view with the prevailing orthodoxy. One of the strengths of the analyst position was that it could point to Homer’s own description of the bard in its defence: the Iliad and the Odyssey were composed of separate lays, composed it may be by separate persons, or at least for separate occasions, and sung in t...
Tienda online donde Comprar Genius: History of an Idea al precio 33,45 € de Penelope Murray, tien... more Tienda online donde Comprar Genius: History of an Idea al precio 33,45 € de Penelope Murray, tienda de Libros de Medicina, Libros de Psicologia - Psicologia General
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