Epic And Epigram
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Epic And Epigram
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Author : David R. Slavitt
language : en
Publisher: LSU Press
Release Date : 1997-06-01
Epic And Epigram written by David R. Slavitt and has been published by LSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-06-01 with Poetry categories.
David R. Slavitt’s affectionate translations of epigrams by sixteenth-century Welsh academic John Owen transmute a careful selection of the writer’s work into a vision of life, and in so doing bring Owen into conversation with the present day. Pithy, quick, favoring balance and economy over elaboration of style, the epigram is difficult in any language; that Owen mastered it in a language other than his own attests to his immense talent. Owen’s small treasures go directly to the core: “At your coming into the world, you gave a cry / of protest: why then protest that you must die?” Duessa’s Version: A Dirge in Seven Canticles offers an irreverent and provocative recapitulation of The Faerie Queene, as told by Duessa, the mutable sorceress of Spenser’s epic poem. Slavitt invests her with an unforgettable voice—outraged, profane, wise, and wickedly funny—and an exasperated contempt for the hero, Spenser’s Redcrosse Knight. Duessa’s retelling of The Faerie Queene becomes the scaffolding upon which Slavitt hangs his reflections on twentieth-century civilization and culture that are indebted at once to intelligent observation, to Spenser, and to Borscht Belt comedy. Here are virtuoso performances by a poet with resources of wit and erudition that are nothing short of astonishing. These masterly translations are bound “to get him—or at least his ghost—invited back.”
Epic To Epigram
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991-01-01
Epic To Epigram written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-01-01 with Classical poetry categories.
Martial S Rome
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Author : Victoria Rimell
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2008
Martial S Rome written by Victoria Rimell and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Art categories.
Explores Martial's radical vision of the relationship between art and reality and his role in formulating modern perceptions of Rome.
Epigram
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Author : Niall Livingstone
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2010-04-22
Epigram written by Niall Livingstone and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-22 with History categories.
Provides an introduction as to what epigram means and why it matters. Short content excellent for undergraduates and researchers alike.
Archaic And Classical Greek Epigram
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Author : Manuel Baumbach
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2010-12-02
Archaic And Classical Greek Epigram written by Manuel Baumbach and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-02 with History categories.
This book explores dialogue between Archaic and Classical Greek epigrams and their readers, and argues for their often-unacknowledged literary and aesthetic achievement.
A Companion To Ancient Epigram
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Author : Christer Henriksén
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2019-02-12
A Companion To Ancient Epigram written by Christer Henriksén and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
A delightful look at the epic literary history of the short, poetic genre of the epigram From Nestor’s inscribed cup to tombstones, bathroom walls, and Twitter tweets, the ability to express oneself concisely and elegantly, continues to be an important part of literary history unlike any other. This book examines the entire history of the epigram, from its beginnings as a purely epigraphic phenomenon in the Greek world, where it moved from being just a note attached to physical objects to an actual literary form of expression, to its zenith in late 1st century Rome, and further through a period of stagnation up to its last blooming, just before the beginning of the Dark Ages. A Companion to Ancient Epigram offers the first ever full-scale treatment of the genre from a broad international perspective. The book is divided into six parts, the first of which covers certain typical characteristics of the genre, examines aspects that are central to our understanding of epigram, and discusses its relation to other literary genres. The subsequent four parts present a diachronic history of epigram, from archaic Greece, Hellenistic Greece, and Latin and Greek epigrams at Rome, all the way up to late antiquity, with a concluding section looking at the heritage of ancient epigram from the Middle Ages up to modern times. Provides a comprehensive overview of the history of the epigram The first single-volume book to examine the entire history of the genre Scholarly interest in Greek and Roman epigram has steadily increased over the past fifty years Looks at not only the origins of the epigram but at the later literary tradition A Companion to Ancient Epigram will be of great interest to scholars and students of literature, world literature, and ancient and general history. It will also be an excellent addition to the shelf of any public and university library.
Dialect Diction And Style In Greek Literary And Inscribed Epigram
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Author : Evina Sistakou
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2016-10-24
Dialect Diction And Style In Greek Literary And Inscribed Epigram written by Evina Sistakou and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
Language and style of epigram is a topic scarcely discussed in the related bibliography. This edition aspires to fill the gap by offering an in-depth study of dialect, diction, and style in Greek literary and inscribed epigram in a collection of twenty-one contributions authored by international scholars. The authors explore the epigrammatic Kunstsprache and matters of dialectical variation, the interchange between poetic and colloquial vocabulary, the employment of hapax legomena, the formalistic uses of the epigrammatic discourse (meter, syntactical patterns, arrangement of words, riddles), the various categories of style in sepulchral, philosophical and pastoral contexts of literary epigrams, and the idiosyncratic diction of inscriptions. This is a book intended for classicists who want to review the connection between the stylistic features of epigram and its interpretation, as well as for scholars keen to understand how rhetoric and linguistics can be used as a heuristic tool for the study of literature.
Hellenistic Epigrams
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Author : Francis Cairns
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2016-10-20
Hellenistic Epigrams written by Francis Cairns and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-20 with History categories.
Investigates the literary, linguistic, historical, epigraphic, and other contexts of Hellenistic epigrams in themed chapters through analyses of individual epigrams.
The Epic
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Author : Lascelles Abercrombie
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2019-09-25
The Epic written by Lascelles Abercrombie and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-25 with Fiction categories.
Reproduction of the original: The Epic by Lascelles Abercrombie
Genres Rediscovered
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Author : Anna Maria Wasyl
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011-05-15
Genres Rediscovered written by Anna Maria Wasyl and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-15 with Africa, North categories.
A reader of the epyllion by Dracontius, the elegy by Maximianus, and the epigram by Luxorius should not expect that these works - and these new embodiments of the 'old' genres - will be wholly identical with their 'archetypes'. Were it so, it would mean that we read but second-rate versifiers, indeed. ... We may expect rather that thanks to the reading of Dracontius's epyllion, Maximianus's elegy, and Luxorius's epigram our understanding of these very genres may become fuller and deeper than if it was narrowed only to the study of the 'classical phase' of the Roman literature.