Pindar and the Emergence of Literature

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).

Product details

• Authors: Boris Maslov, Boris (University of Chicago) Maslov, Maslov Boris
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781107539099
• ISBN: 978-1-107-53909-9
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 230 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 560 g
• Illustrations: 4 tables, Raster, farbig, Tabellen, schwarz-weiss
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; 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