The Path of the Argo

Informationen zum Autor R. J. Clare is currently Lecturer in Classics at the University of Leeds. He was educated in Dublin and Cambridge and has held a research fellowship at the University of Manchester and a lectureship at the University of Durham. He is the author of articles on Homer, Apollonius Rhodius, Catullus and Virgil. Klappentext In this innovative study of Apollonius Rhodius' influential epic poem from the Hellenistic period, the author aims both to offer fresh insights into popular critical issues and consider it from new perspectives. The principal, unifying concern is the poet's measured and complex use of language and the manipulation of meaning generated therewith. The first part presents a detailed analysis of the poem's constantly shifting commentary on the voyage of the Argo as articulated throughout all four books of the poem, and the conflicting strategies according to which the epic journey of the Argonauts is presented for interpretation. The second part of the book identifies hitherto unexplored descriptive, thematic and image-related rhythms within the narrative, which serve both to bind the poem together and to generate further complexities of meaning. Accessible to non-specialists, with all Greek quotations accompanied by an English translation. Zusammenfassung Apollonius Rhodius' influential epic poem from the Hellenistic period is here examined from a number of perspectives! with the main emphasis on thematic and narrative complexities arising from the poet's use of language. Written in an accessible style! this book breaks new ground in the critical interpretation of the poem. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. There and Back Again: 1. Epic beginnings; 2. Outward bound; 3. Other journeys; 4. Homeward bound; Part II. Order and Disorder: 5. Patterns of action; 6. Orpheus and Medea; 7. Poetics and rhetoric.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: R. J. Clare, R.J. Clare
• Collaboration: P. E. Easterling (Editeur), M. K. Hopkins (Editeur)
• Edition: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 16.05.2002
• EAN: 9780521810364
• ISBN: 978-0-521-81036-4
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 224 mm x 20 mm
• Thèmes: Cambridge Classical Studies; Cambridge Classical Studies
• Catégories: Ecole et pédagogie > Préparation de l'enseignement > Formation professionnelle; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Linguistique et littérature classiques; 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