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Pindar and the Sublime

- Greek Myth, Reception, and Lyric Experience
Af: Professor Robert L. Fowler Engelsk Paperback

Pindar and the Sublime

- Greek Myth, Reception, and Lyric Experience
Af: Professor Robert L. Fowler Engelsk Paperback
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Pindar—the ‘Theban eagle’, as Thomas Gray famously called him—has often been taken as the archetype of the sublime poet: soaring into the heavens on wings of language and inspired by visions of eternity. In this much-anticipated new study, Robert Fowler asks in what ways the concept of the sublime can still guide a reading of the greatest of the Greek lyric poets. Working with ancient and modern treatments of the topic, especially the poetry and writings of Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843), arguably Pindar’s greatest modern reader, he develops the case for an aesthetic appreciation of Pindar’s odes as literature.

Building on recent trends in criticism, he shifts the focus away from the first performance and the orality of Greek culture to reception and the experience of Pindar’s odes as text. This change of emphasis yields a fresh discussion of many facets of Pindar’s astonishing art, including the relation of the poems to their occasions, performativity, the poet’s persona, his imagery, and his myths. Consideration of Pindar’s views on divinity, transcendence, time, and the limits of language reveals him to be not only a great writer but a great thinker.

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Pindar—the ‘Theban eagle’, as Thomas Gray famously called him—has often been taken as the archetype of the sublime poet: soaring into the heavens on wings of language and inspired by visions of eternity. In this much-anticipated new study, Robert Fowler asks in what ways the concept of the sublime can still guide a reading of the greatest of the Greek lyric poets. Working with ancient and modern treatments of the topic, especially the poetry and writings of Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843), arguably Pindar’s greatest modern reader, he develops the case for an aesthetic appreciation of Pindar’s odes as literature.

Building on recent trends in criticism, he shifts the focus away from the first performance and the orality of Greek culture to reception and the experience of Pindar’s odes as text. This change of emphasis yields a fresh discussion of many facets of Pindar’s astonishing art, including the relation of the poems to their occasions, performativity, the poet’s persona, his imagery, and his myths. Consideration of Pindar’s views on divinity, transcendence, time, and the limits of language reveals him to be not only a great writer but a great thinker.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 280
ISBN-13: 9781350198166
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1350198161
Kategori: Ancient Greece
Udg. Dato: 13 jan 2022
Længde: 21mm
Bredde: 234mm
Højde: 157mm
Forlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Oplagsdato: 13 jan 2022
Forfatter(e): Professor Robert L. Fowler
Forfatter(e) Professor Robert L. Fowler

Kategori Ancient Greece

ISBN-13 9781350198166

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 280

Udgave

Længde 21mm

Bredde 234mm

Højde 157mm

Udg. Dato 13 jan 2022

Oplagsdato 13 jan 2022

Forlag Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

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