Lyric texts and lyric consciousness : the birth of a genre from archaic Greece to Augustan Rome

Lyric texts and lyric consciousness : the birth of a genre from archaic Greece to Augustan Rome /

Lyric Texts and Lyric Consciousness presents a model for studying the history of lyric as a genre. Prof Miller draws a distinction between the work of the Greek lyrists and the more condensed, personal poetry that we associate with lyric. He then confronts the theoretical issues and presents a sophi...

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Main Author: Miller, Paul Allen, 1959-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1994
Subjects:
Classical poetry > History and criticism.
Lyric poetry > History and criticism.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The subject of the text
  • 2. Epos and Iambos, or, Archilochus meets the wolfman
  • 3. De Generibus Disputandum Est
  • 4. The garden of forking paths : Catullus and the birth of the collection
  • 5. A poet's place : Sappho and the Melic discourse of archaic Greece
  • 6. Sapphica Puella : the triple-faceted object of Catullan desire
  • 7. Rome, Alexandria, and the politics of lyric
  • 8. Horace, Mercury, and Augustus
  • 9. Conclusion : of writings and subjects.

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