| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 379 pages) |
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Trends in classics : Supplementary volumes, 1868-4785 ; 25 |
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Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; v. 25.
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| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Callimachus and Early Greek Elegy / Massimilla, Giulio -- Didactic poetry: The Hellenistic invention of a pre-existing genre / Sider, David -- Hellenistic Poetry and Hellenistic Prose / Hutchinson, G.O. -- Theocritus and the Style of Hellenistic Poetry / Hunter, Richard -- Poetic Meaning, Place, and Dialect in the Epigrams of Meleager / Gutzwiller, Kathryn -- Narrative and Simile in Lycophron's Alexandra / Sens, Alexander -- (Re)constructing Myth: Elliptical Narrative in Hellenistic and Latin Poetry / Ambühl, Annemarie -- From Emotion to Sensation: The Discovery of the Senses in Hellenistic Poetry / Sistakou, Evina -- "Your first commitments tangible again" -- Alexandrianism as an aesthetic category? / Pontani, Filippomaria -- The Jewels and the Dolls: Late Hellenistic Ecphrastic Epigrams as Metapoetic Texts / Prioux, Évelyne -- Tragic smiles: When tragedy gets too comic for Aristotle and later Hellenistic readers / Fantuzzi, Marco -- Philo Senior and the Waters of Jerusalem / Faulkner, Andrew -- Spiders in the Greek Wide Web? / Harder, Annette -- Posidippus and Achaemenid royal propaganda / Petrovic, Ivana -- "Déjà la pierre pense où votre nom s'inscrit" / Barbantani, Silvia -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index |
| Summary |
This volume brings together fifteen papers which address key issues in the field of Hellenistic studies. In using modern critical approaches, the authors discuss the genre, style, narrative and aesthetics of post-classical literature and highlight its cultural and ideological contexts. By reassessing conventional views and methods the volume aims at providing new insights into Hellenistic literature |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-369) and index |
| Notes |
In English |
| Subject |
Greek literature, Hellenistic -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical.
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Greek literature, Hellenistic
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Lyrik
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Griechisch
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Klassieke talen.
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Tekstkritiek.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Congressen (vorm)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Sistakou, Evina, editor
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Rengakos, Antonios, editor
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Hunter, R. L. (Richard L.), editor.
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| ISBN |
9783110342949 |
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3110342944 |
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9783110368130 |
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3110368137 |
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9783110342956 |
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3110342952 |
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