Unity in Greek Poetics

Klappentext This book reconstructs ancient Greek assumptions about literary unity. Using literary examples, Heath focuses on ancient secondary texts of literary theory and criticism, providing a systematic survey from Plato and Aristotle to the later Neoplatonists. He also reviews the post-classical history of the concept of literary unity. Zusammenfassung The aim of this book is to reconstruct ancient Greek assumptions about literary unity. It discusses some literary examples, but its main concern is with ancient secondary texts - literary theory and criticism, undertaking a systematic survey from Plato and Aristotle down to the later Neoplatonists. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Plato; Fourth-century rhetoric; Aristotle; Epic after Aristotle; Dionysus and historiography; Later rhetoric; The Homeric Scholia; The Neoplatonist Turn; Some post-classical developments; Conclusion; Appendices: A. Epeisodion before Aristotle; B. Other poetic scholia; Bibliography; Indexes

Product details

• Authors: M. Heath, M. (Lecturer in Classics Heath, Malcolm Heath, Malcolm F Heath, Malcolm F. Heath, Heath M.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.09.1989
• EAN: 9780198140597
• ISBN: 978-0-19-814059-7
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Ancient Greece, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary theory, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval