Texts, Ideas, and the Classics Scholarship, Theory, and Classical Literature [Hardcover]

This book aims to promote a simple idea: that, in the contemporary context of the study and interpretation of classical literature at universities, traditional classical scholarship and modern theoretical ideas need to work with each other in the common task of the interpretation of texts. Such dialogue and co-operation is not merely desirable; it is essential to ensure the survival and relevance of the study of classical literature in the twenty-first century. The topics selected were chosen by a panel of distinguished practitioners as traditional areas of classical literary studies where the importance of co-operation of theory and scholarship could be shown in different ways by scholars who ranged widely in their views: literary language, narrative, genre, historicism, and reception and history of scholarship.

The Snares of the Odyssey: Feminist and Narratological Readings,Prof. Lillian Doherty
Foreshadowing and Suspense in Herodotus,Dr Irene de Jong
Latin Studies in Germany 1933-45: Institutional Conditions, Political Pressures, Scholarly Consequences,Prof. P.L. Schmidt
Pindar meets Plato: Theory, Style and the Classics,Prof. M.S. Silk
Metatext and its functions in Greek Lyric Poetry,Prof. J. Danielewicz
The Crossing,Prof. A. Barchiesi
Explaining Them to Us: Polybius,Dr John Henderson
Giants on the Shoulders of Dwarfs? Considerations on the Value of Renaissance and Early Modern Scholarship for Today's Classicists,Dr Ingrid de Smet
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Purity in Danger: The Contextual Life of Savants,Dr Chris Stray
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???,Dr D.P.Fowler

There is not an unintelligient or uninteresting essay in this entire volume Barchiesi and Henderson are must-reads, and the witty introductions of Swain and Reeve delightful. --Religious Studies RelC