Pindar and the Emergence of Literature

This book demonstrates Pindar's importance for the coming into being of literature as it has been conceived of in the West.

List of contents

Introduction: archaeologies of literature; 1. Authors, forms, and the creation of a literary culture; 2. Image, metaphor, concept: the semantics of poetic language; 3. Speech acts, social personas, and poetic veridiction; 4. Genre hybridity and the literary artefact; Epilogue: poetry and immortality.

About the author

Boris Maslov is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago. He has published many articles on ancient Greek literature and its reception, the comparative history of concepts, and the history of literary theory. He is a co-editor, with Ilya Kliger, of Persistent Forms: Explorations in Historical Poetics (2015).

Summary

For much of Western history, Pindar's work was recognized as the pinnacle of lyric poetry. This book presents an introduction to different aspects of Pindar's art, while demonstrating its importance for the coming into being of literature as it has been conceived of in the West.

Product details

• Authors: Boris Maslov, Boris (University of Chicago) Maslov, Boris Stepanovich Maslov, Maslov Boris
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.10.2015
• EAN: 9781107116634
• ISBN: 978-1-107-11663-4
• No. of pages: 384
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets