Author: Richard Bentley
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Category : Aesop's fables
Languages : en
Pages : 674
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Dr. Richard Bentley's Dissertations Upon the Epistles of Phalaris, Themistocles, Socrates, Euripides, and Upon the Fables of Æsop
Author: Richard Bentley
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Category : Aesop's fables
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aesop's fables
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
Richard Bentley's Dissertations Upon the Epistles of Phalaris, Themistocles, Socrates, Euripides and Upon the Fables of Aesop Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Wilhem Wagner
Author: Richard Bentley
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 660
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 660
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Dr. Richard Bentley's dissertations upon the epistles of Phalaris, Themistocles, Socrates, Euripides, and upon the fables of Æsop, ed., with an intr. and notes, by W. Wagner
Author: Richard Bentley
Publisher:
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Category : Aesop's fables
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aesop's fables
Languages : en
Pages : 656
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Dissertations Upon the Epistles of Phalaris, Themistocles, Socrates, Euripides, and Upon the Fables of Aesop
Author: Richard Bentley
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Category : Aesop's fables
Languages : en
Pages : 418
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Publisher:
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Category : Aesop's fables
Languages : en
Pages : 418
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Dissertations Upon the Epistles of Phalaris, Themistocles, Socrates, Euripides, and The Fables of Æsop
Author: Richard Bentley
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ISBN:
Category : Aesop's fables
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aesop's fables
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
A Dissertation Upon the Epistles of Phalaris, Themistocles, Socrates, Euripides, and Others; and the Fables of Æsop
Author: Richard Bentley
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Category : Aesop's fables
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Category : Aesop's fables
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Epic into Novel
Author: Henry Power
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191035823
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Epic into Novel looks at Henry Fielding's adaptation of classical epic in the context of what he called the 'Trade of . . . authoring'. Fielding was always keen to stress that his novels were modelled on classical literature. Equally, he was fascinated by—and wrote at length about—the fact that they were objects to be consumed. He recognised that he wrote in an age when an author had to consider himself 'as one who keeps a public Ordinary, at which all persons are welcome for their Money.' In describing his work, he alludes both to Homeric epic and to contemporary cookery books. This tension in Fielding's work has gone unexplored, a tension between his commitment to a classical tradition and his immersion in a print culture in which books were consumable commodities. This interest in the place of the ancients in a world of consumerism was inherited from the previous generation of satirists. The 'Scriblerians'—among them Jonathan Swift, John Gay, and Alexander Pope—repeatedly suggest in their work that classical values are at odds with modern tastes and appetites. Fielding, who had idolised these writers as a young man, developed many of their satiric routines in his own writing. But Fielding broke from Swift, Gay, and Pope in creating a version of epic designed to appeal to modern consumers. Henry Power provides new readings of works by Swift, Gay, and Pope, and of Fielding's major novels. He examines Fielding's engagement with various Scriblerian themes—primarily the consumption of literature, but also the professionalisation of scholarship, and the status of the author—and shows ultimately that Fielding broke with the Scriblerians in acknowledging and celebrating the influence of the marketplace on his work.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191035823
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Epic into Novel looks at Henry Fielding's adaptation of classical epic in the context of what he called the 'Trade of . . . authoring'. Fielding was always keen to stress that his novels were modelled on classical literature. Equally, he was fascinated by—and wrote at length about—the fact that they were objects to be consumed. He recognised that he wrote in an age when an author had to consider himself 'as one who keeps a public Ordinary, at which all persons are welcome for their Money.' In describing his work, he alludes both to Homeric epic and to contemporary cookery books. This tension in Fielding's work has gone unexplored, a tension between his commitment to a classical tradition and his immersion in a print culture in which books were consumable commodities. This interest in the place of the ancients in a world of consumerism was inherited from the previous generation of satirists. The 'Scriblerians'—among them Jonathan Swift, John Gay, and Alexander Pope—repeatedly suggest in their work that classical values are at odds with modern tastes and appetites. Fielding, who had idolised these writers as a young man, developed many of their satiric routines in his own writing. But Fielding broke from Swift, Gay, and Pope in creating a version of epic designed to appeal to modern consumers. Henry Power provides new readings of works by Swift, Gay, and Pope, and of Fielding's major novels. He examines Fielding's engagement with various Scriblerian themes—primarily the consumption of literature, but also the professionalisation of scholarship, and the status of the author—and shows ultimately that Fielding broke with the Scriblerians in acknowledging and celebrating the influence of the marketplace on his work.
Dissertations Upon the Epistles of Phalaris, Themistocles, Socrates, Euripides, and The Fables of Æsop
Author: Richard Bentley
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Category : Epistles of Phalaris
Languages : en
Pages : 658
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Publisher:
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Category : Epistles of Phalaris
Languages : en
Pages : 658
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History of Classical Philology
Author: Diego Lanza
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110730383
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
An updated history of classical philology had long been a desideratum of scholars of the ancient world. The volume edited by Diego Lanza and Gherardo Ugolini is structured in three parts. In the first one (“Towards a science of antiquity”) the approach of Anglo-Saxon philology (R. Bentley) and the institutionalization of the discipline in the German academic world (C.G. Heyne and F.A. Wolf) are described. In the second part (“The illusion of the archetype. Classical Studies in the Germany of the 19th Century”) the theoretical contributions and main methodological disputes that followed are analysed (K. Lachmann, J.G. Hermann, A. Boeckh, F. Nietzsche and U. von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff). The last part (“The classical philology of the 20th century”) treats the redefinition of classical studies after the Great War in Germany (W. Jaeger) and in Italy (G. Pasquali). In this context, the contributions of papyrology and of the new images of antiquity that have emerged in the works of writers, narrators, and translators of our time have been considered. This part finishes with the presentation of some of the most influential scholars of the last decades (B. Snell, E.R. Dodds, J.-P. Vernant, B. Gentili, N. Loraux).
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110730383
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
An updated history of classical philology had long been a desideratum of scholars of the ancient world. The volume edited by Diego Lanza and Gherardo Ugolini is structured in three parts. In the first one (“Towards a science of antiquity”) the approach of Anglo-Saxon philology (R. Bentley) and the institutionalization of the discipline in the German academic world (C.G. Heyne and F.A. Wolf) are described. In the second part (“The illusion of the archetype. Classical Studies in the Germany of the 19th Century”) the theoretical contributions and main methodological disputes that followed are analysed (K. Lachmann, J.G. Hermann, A. Boeckh, F. Nietzsche and U. von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff). The last part (“The classical philology of the 20th century”) treats the redefinition of classical studies after the Great War in Germany (W. Jaeger) and in Italy (G. Pasquali). In this context, the contributions of papyrology and of the new images of antiquity that have emerged in the works of writers, narrators, and translators of our time have been considered. This part finishes with the presentation of some of the most influential scholars of the last decades (B. Snell, E.R. Dodds, J.-P. Vernant, B. Gentili, N. Loraux).
Classical Learning in Britain, France, and the Dutch Republic, 1690-1750
Author: Floris Verhaart
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192606182
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
For much of western history, the achievements of classical antiquity were seen as unsurpassable, and works by Latin and Greek authors were viewed as treasure troves of information still useful for contemporary society. By the late seventeenth century, however, the progress of scientific discoveries and the new paradigms of rationalism and empiricism meant the authority of the ancients was called into question. Those working on the classical past and its literature debated new ways of defending their relevance for society. The different approaches to classical literature defended in these debates explain how the writings of ancient Greece and Rome could become a vital part of eighteenth-century culture and political thinking. Floris Verhaart analyses these eighteenth-century debates about the value of classics, arguing that the Enlightenment, though often seen as an age of reason and modernity, in fact continuously sought inspiration from preceding traditions and ages such as Renaissance humanism and classical antiquity. The volume offers an interesting parallel with the modern day, in which the relationship between 'experts' and the general public has become the topic of debate and many academics, especially in the humanities, face pressure to explain how their work benefits society at large.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192606182
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
For much of western history, the achievements of classical antiquity were seen as unsurpassable, and works by Latin and Greek authors were viewed as treasure troves of information still useful for contemporary society. By the late seventeenth century, however, the progress of scientific discoveries and the new paradigms of rationalism and empiricism meant the authority of the ancients was called into question. Those working on the classical past and its literature debated new ways of defending their relevance for society. The different approaches to classical literature defended in these debates explain how the writings of ancient Greece and Rome could become a vital part of eighteenth-century culture and political thinking. Floris Verhaart analyses these eighteenth-century debates about the value of classics, arguing that the Enlightenment, though often seen as an age of reason and modernity, in fact continuously sought inspiration from preceding traditions and ages such as Renaissance humanism and classical antiquity. The volume offers an interesting parallel with the modern day, in which the relationship between 'experts' and the general public has become the topic of debate and many academics, especially in the humanities, face pressure to explain how their work benefits society at large.