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The Politics of Form in Greek Literature
Edited by Phiroze Vasunia
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The Politics of Form in Greek Literature explores the relationship between form and political life specifically in Greek textual culture. In the last generation or so, classicists (and their counterparts in other disciplines) have begun to pay greater attention to the socio-historical contexts of literary production and sought to historicize aesthetic practice. However, historicism (and in particular New Historicism) is only one mode of approaching the question of form, which is increasingly brought into dialogue with a number of other issues (e.g. gender). Bringing together contributions from a range of experts, this volume examines these and other related approaches, assessing their limitations and discussing possibilities for the future. Individual chapters discuss an array of ancient authors, including Homer, Sophocles, Euripides, Plato, Aristotle, Callimachus, and more, and sketch out the specifically Greek contribution to the debate, as well as the implications for other disciplines. What emerges from this book are new ways of thinking about form, and indeed about politics, that will be of value to scholars and students across the humanities and social sciences.
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Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published date | 16 Dec 2021
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 312
Dimensions | 234 x 156 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 608g
ISBN | 978-1-3501-6263-1
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BISAC | history / ancient / greece
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