Texts, Ideas, and the Classics
Author | : S. J. Harrison |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2001 |
ISBN-10 | : 0199247463 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780199247462 |
Rating | : 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Download or read book Texts, Ideas, and the Classics written by S. J. Harrison and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2001 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to promote a simple idea: that, in the contemporary context of the study and interpretation of classical literature at universities, traditional classical scholarship and modern theoretical ideas need to work with each other in the common task of the interpretation of texts. Such dialogue and co-operation is not merely desirable; it is essential to ensure the survival and relevance of the study of classical literature in the twenty-first century. The topics selected were chosen by a panel of distinguished practitioners as traditional areas of classical literary studies where the importance of co-operation of theory and scholarship could be shown in different ways by scholars who ranged widely in their views: "literary language," "narrative," "genre," "historicism," and "reception and history of scholarship."