Interaction in Poetic Imagery - With Special Reference to Early Greek Poetry

This influential book has made an unusual and original contribution to literary theory through a study of poetic imagery in early Greek lyric and drama and the formulation of a new critical concept, 'interaction'. This reissue contains a substantial new Introduction engaging with critical and scholarly developments since first publication.

List of contents

Foreword to the second edition; Introduction to the second edition; Prolegomenon; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and note; Part I. Introduction: 1. Interaction; 2. Dead metaphor and normal usage; 3. Aesthetics; Part II. The Categories: 4. Scope and procedure; 5. Neutral-based interaction; 6. Intrusion; 7. Interaction outside the grammar; 8. Aural interaction; 9. Combinations; Appendices; Bibliography; Indexes.

About the author

M. S. SILK is Emeritus Professor of Classical and Comparative Literature at King's College London (where from 1991 to 1996 he was also Professor of Greek Language and Literature); Adjunct Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; and a fellow of the British Academy. He has published extensively on poetry and drama, the classical tradition, and literary theory and thought (from Homer to Aristophanes, Sophocles to Shakespeare, Aristotle to Nietzsche and Virgil to Ted Hughes).

Product details

• Authors: M. S. Silk, M. S. (King's College London) Silk, M. S. (King''s College London) Silk
• Assisted by: Whitmarsh Tim (Foreword)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2025
• EAN: 9781009469593
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0946959-3
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Cambridge Classical Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Poetry, HISTORY / Ancient / General, Classical texts, Ancient World, Classic and pre-20th century poetry, Ancient Greek and Roman literature