Horace on Poetry - Prolegomena to the Literary Epistles

Klappentext This is the first of Professor Brink's three-volume commentary on Horace's literary epistles, originally published in 1963. Zusammenfassung This is the first of Professor Brink's three-volume commentary on Horace's literary epistles! originally published in 1963. The volumes' chief focus is the primary source of Horatian literary criticism: the Epistula ad Pisones! known as the Ars Poetica. The complete three-volume commentary constitutes one of the fullest scholarly commentaries on Horace's critical writing. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Abbreviations; Part I. Order and Disorder in the Ars Poetica: 1. Has the Ars Poetica a structure?; 2. The analytic procedure and some analyses; Part II. The Tradition of Literary Criticism and the Ars Poetica: 1. Neoptolemus of Parium; 2. The Rhetoric and Poetics; 4. Neoptolemus and Aristotle's De Poetis; 5. Alexandrian criticism and Neoptolemus on poetry; Part III. Horace as a Literary Critic: The Literary Satires and Epistles: 1. Preliminaries and the literary satires; 2. The shorter literary epistles; Part IV. The Ars Poetica as Literary Criticism and as a Poem: 1. The principles of literary criticism in the Ars Poetica; 2. Poetic patterns in the Ars Poetica; Bibliography; General index; Index of passages.

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• Authors: C. O. Brink, Brink C. O.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.06.2011
• EAN: 9780521283076
• ISBN: 978-0-521-28307-6
• No. of pages: 314
• Series: Brink: Horace on Poetry; Brink: Horace on Poetry
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Latin, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets