Iambic Ideas - Essays on a Poetic Tradition from Archaic Greece to the Late Roman Empire

Iambic Ideas explores the concept of the 'iambic' as a genre. In a set of detailed studies, the contributors examine, across time, the idea of iambic through a wide variety of cultural settings-Greek, Hellenistic, Roman, and late antiquity. What emerges most clearly is that the 'iambic idea' is impossible to define in absolute terms: rather, the form of iambic keeps varying in response to a vast variety of historical contingencies. The variation is evident in such critical terms as the 'iambic tendency' in Sappho, the 'reusing of iambi' for Roman epodes, and even the instances of 'iambic absence' in comedy and other such related forms. In the end, what is most characteristic about the 'iambic' is its own inherent variability.

Sommario

Chapter 1 Early Greek Iambic Poetry: The Importance of Narrative Chapter 2 What Is That Man Doing in Sappho Chapter 3 Iambic Motifs in Alcaeus' Lyrics Chapter 4 Iambic Patterns in Aristophanic Comedy Chapter 5 Callimachus 4: From Performance to Writing Chapter 6 Iambic Presences in Ennius's Saturae Chapter 7 Catullian iambics, Catullian iambi Chapter 8 Horace and Iambos: The Poet as Literary Historian Chapter 9 Some Generic Problems in Horace's Epodes: or On (Not) Being Archilochus Chapter 10 Epode 14: Horace's carmen inconditum? Chapter 11 Ego polivi versibus senariis: Phaedrus and Iambic Poetry Chapter 12 Late Antique Iambics and iambikè idéa

Info autore

Alessandro Barchiesi is Professor of Latin Literature at the University of Verona, Italy. Antonio Aloni is Professor of Greek Literature at the University of Torino, Italy. Alberto Cavarzere is Professor of Latin Literature at the University of Trento, Italy.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Con la collaborazione di: Antonio Aloni (Editore), Aloni Antonio (Editore), Alessandro Barchiesi (Editore), Barchiesi Alessandro (Editore), Alberto Cavarzere (Editore), Cavarzere Alberto (Editore)
• Editore: Rowman & Littlefield
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 16.11.2001
• EAN: 9780742508170
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-0817-0
• Dimensioni: 150 mm x 228 mm x 20 mm
• Peso: 413 g
• Serie: Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Altre lingue / altre letterature; Latin, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Historical & comparative linguistics, c 500 to c 1000 CE, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE, Historical and comparative linguistics