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Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-10
0801840198
ISBN-13
9780801840197
eBay Product ID (ePID)
578677
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
408 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Poetry and Its Public in Ancient Greece : from Homer to the Fifth Century
Publication Year
1990
Subject
Poetry, Rhetoric, Ancient & Classical
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
20 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6.9 in
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Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
87-026852
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This superb and fascinating book insists upon trying to place the poetry of Sappho, Alcaeus, Pindar, Archilochus, and others within its social and ritual contexts: oral performance, patron/poet relationship, and religious or communal function. Considering the evidence, such efforts must at times rely upon inspiration, but the close textual readings of individual poems, judicious use of anthropological method, and inclusion of many of the recently discovered fragments creates a vivid picture. A book that will be with us for years to come., "This superb and fascinating book insists upon trying to place the poetry of Sappho, Alcaeus, Pindar, Archilochus, and others within its social and ritual contexts: oral performance, patron/poet relationship, and religious or communal function. Considering the evidence, such efforts must at times rely upon inspiration, but the close textual readings of individual poems, judicious use of anthropological method, and inclusion of many of the recently discovered fragments creates a vivid picture. A book that will be with us for years to come."-- Library Journal, September 1, 1988, This is a stimulaing, informative book. Do not be deterred by the many pages given to theoretical and methodological discussions early on: they undergrind the specific readings that follow, of Archilochus and Pindar, Sappho and Anacreon, and the rest; and Gentili enlivens the more abstract considerations suggested in his titles ('the poetry of mimesis,' 'the sociology of meaning') with incisive illustrations and analogies. He keeps us aware of contexts: social and political, economic and cultural. His sense of poet and audience is acute, imaginative, philologically responsible, and humane., ""This superb and fascinating book insists upon trying to place the poetry of Sappho, Alcaeus, Pindar, Archilochus, and others within its social and ritual contexts: oral performance, patron/poet relationship, and religious or communal function. Considering the evidence, such efforts must at times rely upon inspiration, but the close textual readings of individual poems, judicious use of anthropological method, and inclusion of many of the recently discovered fragments creates a vivid picture. A book that will be with us for years to come."", "This is a stimulaing, informative book. Do not be deterred by the many pages given to theoretical and methodological discussions early on: they undergrind the specific readings that follow, of Archilochus and Pindar, Sappho and Anacreon, and the rest; and Gentili enlivens the more abstract considerations suggested in his titles ('the poetry of mimesis,' 'the sociology of meaning') with incisive illustrations and analogies. He keeps us aware of contexts: social and political, economic and cultural. His sense of poet and audience is acute, imaginative, philologically responsible, and humane."-- Kenneth J. Reckford, UNC Chapel Hill in The Classical Outlook, Winter 1989-1990.
Dewey Edition
19
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal
881/.01/09
Original Language
Italian
Table Of Content
Preface to the English Language Edition Translator's Introduction Abbreviations Part I. Chapter 1. Orality and Archaic Culture Chapter 2. Poetry and Music Chapter 3. Modes and Forms of Communication Chapter 4. The Poetics of Mimesis Chapter 5. The Sociology of Meaning Chapter 6. The Ways of Love in the Poetry of Thiasos and Symposium Part II. Chapter 7. Praise and Blame Chapter 8. Poet-Patron-Public: The Norm of the Polyp Chapter 9. Intellectual Activity and Socioeconomic Situation Part III. Chapter 10. Archilochus and the Levels of Reality Chapter 11. The Ship of State: Allegory and Its Workings Chapter 12. Holy Sappho Appendix: The Art of Philology Notes Bibliogpraphy of Works Cited Index of Words and Subjects Index of Passages Cited
Synopsis
Brilliantly applying insights and methodologies from anthropology, literary theory, and the social sciences to the historical study of archaic lyric, Poetry and Its Public in Ancient Greece , winner of Italy's prestigious Viareggio Prize, develops a new Picture of the literary history of Greece. An essentially practical art, ancient Greek poetry was clocely linked to the realities of social and political life and to the actual behavior of individuals within a community. Its mythological content was didactic and pedagogical. But Greek poetry differs radically from modern forms in its mode of communication: it was designed not for reading but for performance, with musical accompaniment, before an audience. In analyzing the formal and social aspects of this performance context, Gentili illuminates such topics as oral composition and improvisation, oral transmission and memory, the connections betweek poetry and music, the changing socioeconomic situation of the artist, and the relations among poets, patrons, and the public., In analyzing the formal and social aspects of this performance context, Gentili illuminates such topics as oral composition and improvisation, oral transmission and memory, the connections betweek poetry and music, the changing socioeconomic situation of the artist, and the relations among poets, patrons, and the public.
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