Author: John T. Kirby
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226437477
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Precious repositories of ancient wisdom? Musty relics of outmoded culture? Timeless paragons of artistic achievement? Hegemonic tools of intellectual repression? Just what are the classics, anyway, and why do (or should) we still pay so much attention to them? What is the literary canon? What is myth, and how do we use it? These are some of the questions that gave rise to John Kirby's Secret of the Muses Retold. This new study of works by five twentieth-century Italian writers investigates the abiding influence of the Greek and Roman classics, and their rich legacy in our own day. The result is not only a splendid introduction to contemporary Italian literature, but also a lucid and stimulating meditation on the insights that writers such as Umberto Eco and Italo Calvino have tapped from the wellspring of ancient tradition. Kirby's book offers an impassioned plea for the recuperation of the humanities in general, and of classical studies in particular. No expertise in Greek, Latin, Italian, or literary theory is presumed, and both traditional and postmodern perspectives are accommodated.
Secret of the Muses Retold
Author: John T. Kirby
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226437477
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Precious repositories of ancient wisdom? Musty relics of outmoded culture? Timeless paragons of artistic achievement? Hegemonic tools of intellectual repression? Just what are the classics, anyway, and why do (or should) we still pay so much attention to them? What is the literary canon? What is myth, and how do we use it? These are some of the questions that gave rise to John Kirby's Secret of the Muses Retold. This new study of works by five twentieth-century Italian writers investigates the abiding influence of the Greek and Roman classics, and their rich legacy in our own day. The result is not only a splendid introduction to contemporary Italian literature, but also a lucid and stimulating meditation on the insights that writers such as Umberto Eco and Italo Calvino have tapped from the wellspring of ancient tradition. Kirby's book offers an impassioned plea for the recuperation of the humanities in general, and of classical studies in particular. No expertise in Greek, Latin, Italian, or literary theory is presumed, and both traditional and postmodern perspectives are accommodated.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226437477
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Precious repositories of ancient wisdom? Musty relics of outmoded culture? Timeless paragons of artistic achievement? Hegemonic tools of intellectual repression? Just what are the classics, anyway, and why do (or should) we still pay so much attention to them? What is the literary canon? What is myth, and how do we use it? These are some of the questions that gave rise to John Kirby's Secret of the Muses Retold. This new study of works by five twentieth-century Italian writers investigates the abiding influence of the Greek and Roman classics, and their rich legacy in our own day. The result is not only a splendid introduction to contemporary Italian literature, but also a lucid and stimulating meditation on the insights that writers such as Umberto Eco and Italo Calvino have tapped from the wellspring of ancient tradition. Kirby's book offers an impassioned plea for the recuperation of the humanities in general, and of classical studies in particular. No expertise in Greek, Latin, Italian, or literary theory is presumed, and both traditional and postmodern perspectives are accommodated.
Echoing Voices in Italian Literature
Author: Teresa Franco
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527524558
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
This collection of essays explores the reception of classics and translation from modern languages as two different, yet synergic, ways of engaging with literary canons and established traditions in 20th-century Italy. These two areas complement each other and equally contribute to shape several kinds of identities: authorial, literary, national and cultural. Foregrounding the transnational aspects of key concepts such as poetics, literary voice, canon and tradition, the book is intended for scholars and students of Italian literature and culture, classical reception and translation studies. With its two shifting focuses, on forms of classical tradition and forms of literary translation, the volume brings to the fore new configurations of 20th-century literature, culture and thought.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527524558
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
This collection of essays explores the reception of classics and translation from modern languages as two different, yet synergic, ways of engaging with literary canons and established traditions in 20th-century Italy. These two areas complement each other and equally contribute to shape several kinds of identities: authorial, literary, national and cultural. Foregrounding the transnational aspects of key concepts such as poetics, literary voice, canon and tradition, the book is intended for scholars and students of Italian literature and culture, classical reception and translation studies. With its two shifting focuses, on forms of classical tradition and forms of literary translation, the volume brings to the fore new configurations of 20th-century literature, culture and thought.
General Catalogue of the Books
Author: Detroit Public Library
Publisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 1138
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Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 1138
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The Church Quarterly Review
Author: Arthur Cayley Headlam
Publisher:
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Category : English periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 548
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Category : English periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 548
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A Bibliography of Literature. Being the Sections Relating to that Subject in The Best Books and The Reader's Guide
Author: William Swan Stallybrass (formerly Sonnenschein.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Languages : en
Pages : 200
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The Academy and Literature
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Languages : en
Pages : 638
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Pages : 638
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The Publishers Weekly
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 926
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 926
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The Italiana Bibliography
Author: Thomas Waterman Huntington
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Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Church Quarterly Review
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Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Languages : en
Pages : 536
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The Best Books
Author: William Swan Sonnenschein
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 1146
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 1146
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