David Ricks

The Shade of Homer

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This 1989 book explores the significance of Homer for the poetry of modern Greece.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 433g
• ISBN-13: 9780521366632
• ISBN-10: 0521366631
• Artikelnr.: 29337057

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Homer and the modern Greek poets
Part I. Homer in the New Greece: The Spirit and the Letter: 1. Kalvos and Solomos
2. Archaism and kleftism
3. Palamas
Part II. Sikelianos: 4. The Homeric inheritance
5. Greek romanticism comes of age
6. Beyond Homer
Part III. Cavafy: 7. Modes of misquotation
8. Ancient days
9. Homer into history
Part IV. Seferis: 10. Scholia
11. Ulysses/Disseas
12. Homer and the poetic vocation
13. Beyond the folk tradition
14. Spirit and letter in 'The King of Asine'
Reflections
Further reading
References
Index.