Homer's Original Genius

Klappentext Analyses the development of the querelle des anciens et des modernes following the adoption of the argument of the modernist faction of seventeenth-century France. Zusammenfassung The querelle des anciens et des modernes - the question whether writers should imitate the classics or use literary forms which seemed more suited to their own era - had been debated in Europe since the earliest days of the Renaissance. This book analyses the development of the querelle following the adoption of the argument of the modernist faction of seventeenth-century France. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of plates; List of abbreviations; Preface; Introduction; Part I. Ancients and Moderns: 1. Ancients and moderns: the problem of cultural progress; 2. Opposition to antiquity: Charles Perrault; 3. The interpretation of early Greek epic: Mme Dacier and the Homeric war; 4. Pope's view of Homer: 'fire' and invention; 5. Voltaire and the poetry of the primitive age; Part II. Primitivism and Realism: 6. Epic genius: the departure from the neoclassical model; 7. Vico's discovery of the true Homer; 8. Thomas Blackwell: the problem of Homer's genius; 9. Notions of poetry and society in the controversy about Ossian; 10. The primitivists and the primitive bard; 11. Poetry is 'original imitation': Robert Wood's theory of the Homeric epic; 12. The originality of Homer: some conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: Simonsuuri Kirsti, Kirsti Simonsuuri, Simonsuuri Kirsti
• Publisher: External catalogues UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.03.2010
• EAN: 9780521134217
• ISBN: 978-0-521-13421-7
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval