TY  - BOOK
AU  - Maslov, Boris
PY  - 2015
DA  - 2015//
TI  - Pindar and the emergence of literature
PB  - Cambridge University Press
CY  - Cambridge
KW  - Criticism and interpretation
KW  - Literature and society
KW  - Greece
KW  - Poetics
KW  - Literature
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Pindar ; Criticism and interpretation
KW  - Literature ; Philosophy
KW  - Literature and society ; Greece
AB  - Pindar and the Emergence of Literature places Pindar in the context of the evolution of Archaic Greek poetics. While presenting an in-depth introduction to diverse aspects of Pindar's art (authorial metapoetics, imagery, genre hybridization, religion, social context, and dialect), it seeks to establish a middle ground between cultural contextualism and literary history, paying attention both to poetry's historical milieu and its uncanny capacity to endure in time. With that methodological objective, the book marshals a new version of historical poetics, drawing both on theorists usually associated with this approach, such as Alexander Veselovsky, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Olga Freidenberg, and on T. S. Eliot, Hans Blumenberg, Fredric Jameson, and Stephen Greenblatt. The ultimate literary-historical problem posed by Pindar's poetics, which this book sets out to solve, is the transformation of pre-literary structures rooted in folk communal art into elements that still inform our notion of literature
SN  - 9781316337707
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316337707
DO  - 10.1017/CBO9781316337707
LA  - English
N1  - Boris Maslov
ID  - 883312581
ER  -