Iambic Ideas Essays on a Poetic Tradition from Archaic Greece to the Late Roman Empire |
|
| Editor:
| Aloni, Antonio
Barchiesi, Alessandro
Cavarzere, Alberto |
| Contribution by:
| Andrisano, Angela M.
Bowie, Ewen Lyall
Agosti, Gianfranco
Edmunds, Lowell
Harrison, Stephen J. |
| Series title: | Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7425-0816-3 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2001 |
| Publisher: | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
|
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $118.00 |
Book Description:
|
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...
More DescriptionIambic 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.