Download or read book Muthos written by Loren D. Marsh and published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. This book was released on 2021-04-12 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a new analysis of Aristotle's concept of narrative in the Poetics. Arguing that the term muthos in the Poetics cannot be understood as equivalent to "plot," Marsh shows that the muthos concept is instead a useful tool for grouping larger sets of narratives based on specific criteria. The results of this muthos analysis indicate that in the classical period, neither formal structure nor the structure of events was determined by theatrical genre, but by the specific combination of tone and plot type. Marsh concludes that the category of genre itself may be less helpful for classifying these plays than is typically assumed.

Download or read book Logos and Muthos written by William Wians and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2010-07-02 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the philosophical dimensions present in the works of ancient Greek poets and playwrights.

Download or read book Plato the Myth Maker written by Luc Brisson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We think of myth as a fictional story, and Plato was the first to use the term muthos in that sense. But Plato also used muthos to describe the practice of making and telling stories, the oral transmission of all that a community keeps in its collective memory. In the first part of Plato the Myth Maker, Luc Brisson reconstructs Plato's multifaceted and not uncritical description of muthos in light of the latter's famous Atlantis story. The second part of the book contrasts this sense of myth, as Plato does, with another form of speech that he believed was far superior: the logos of philosophy. Appearing for the first time in English, Plato the Myth Maker is a solid and important contribution to the history of myth, based on the privileged testimony of one of its most influential critics and supporters.

Download or read book The Poetics of Greek Tragedy written by Malcolm Heath and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 1987 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Task of the Interpreter written by Pol Vandevelde and published by . This book was released on 2005-09-30 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Task of the Interpreter offers a new approach to what it means to interpret a text, and reconciles the possibility of multiple interpretations with the need to consider the author’s intention. Vandevelde argues that interpretation is both an act and an event: It is an act in that interpreters, through the statements they make, implicitly commit themselves to justifying their positions, if prompted. It is an event in that interpreters are situated in a cultural and historical framework and come to a text with questions, concerns, and methods of which they are not fully conscious. These two aspects make interpretation a negotiation of meaning. The Task of the Interpreter provides an interdisciplinary investigation of textual interpretation including biblical hermeneutics (Gregory the Great’s Homilies on Ezekiel), translation (Homer’s The Odyssey), and literary fictions (Grass’s Dog Years and Sabato’s On Heroes and Tombs). Vandevelde’s philosophical discussion will appeal to theorists of both continental and analytical/pragmatic traditions.

Download or read book Unity in Greek Poetics written by Malcolm Heath and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reconstructs ancient Greek assumptions about literary unity. Using literary examples, Heath focuses on ancient secondary texts of literary theory and criticism, providing a systematic survey from Plato and Aristotle to the later Neoplatonists. He also reviews the post-classical history of the concept of literary unity.

Download or read book American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Oral Tradition written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy written by P. E. Easterling and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-10-02 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a creative medium, ancient Greek tragedy has had an extraordinarily wide influence: many of the surviving plays are still part of the theatrical repertoire, and texts like Agamemnon, Antigone, and Medea have had a profound effect on Western culture. This Companion is not a conventional introductory textbook but an attempt, by seven distinguished scholars, to present the familiar corpus in the context of modern reading, criticism, and performance of Greek tragedy. There are three main emphases: on tragedy as an institution in the civic life of ancient Athens, on a range of different critical interpretations arising from fresh readings of the texts, and on changing patterns of reception, adaptation, and performance from antiquity to the present. Each chapter can be read independently, but each is linked with the others, and most examples are drawn from the same selection of plays.

Download or read book Transactions of the American Philological Association written by American Philological Association and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Making Sense of Aristotle written by Øivind Andersen and published by Bristol Classical Press. This book was released on 2001-12-13 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the importance of poetry? Why do we enjoy the experience of tragic distress? Does Roman tragedy reflect Aristotelian poetics? In what ways can "Poetics" be read and interpreted? These questions are discussed in this collection of essays on Aristotle's "Poetics".

Download or read book Logoi and Muthoi written by William Wians and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2019-05-09 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Logoi and Muthoi, William Wians builds on his earlier volume Logos and Muthos, highlighting the richness and complexity of these terms that were once set firmly in opposition to one another as reason versus myth or rationality versus irrationality. It was once common to think of intellectual history representing a straightforward progression from mythology to rationality. These volumes, however, demonstrate the value of taking the two together, opening up and analyzing a range of interactions, reactions, tensions, and ambiguities arising between literary and philosophical forms of discourse, including philosophical themes in works not ordinarily considered in the canon of Greek philosophical texts. This new volume considers such topics as the pre-philosophical origins of Anaximander's calendar, the philosophical significance of public performance and claims of poetic inspiration, and the complex role of mythic figures (including perhaps Socrates) in Plato. Taken together, the essays offer new approaches to familiar texts and open up new possibilities for understanding the roles and relationships between muthos and logos in ancient Greek thought.

Download or read book A Short Introduction to Classical Myth written by Barry B. Powell and published by Pearson. This book was released on 2001 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For an undergraduate level course in Classical Mythology. Helping students gain a more meaningful understanding of the origin of the concept "myth" in the ancient world, this practical guide provides information on the social and historical background of classical myth, as well as commentary on the primary literary texts most often read in courses on Greek myth--including Homer, Hesiod, the tragedians, the historians, Ovid, and Vergil. Written by an internationally acclaimed scholar, the book is an ideal supplement in courses using primary sources. (Penguin paperbacks of these texts are available shrink-wrapped with this book.)

Download or read book A Study of Sophoclean Drama written by G.M. Kirkwood and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Aristotle s Poetics written by Stephen Halliwell and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen Halliwell's translation incorporates the results of the best modern work on the Poetics. It is aimed at those--especially students of Greek literature in translation, and of drama and literature from the Renaissance onwards--who want a reliable version of Aristotle's ideas together with concise and stimulating guidance to their significance, particularly from the perspective of later literary criticism. For each chapter of the Poetics there is a running commentary which explains the structure and detail of further thought about the work's strengths and weaknesses, and offers some suggestions on relating the Poetics to later stages of literary theory and practice. An introduction discusses the influence of the Poetics on the development of literary critical terminology and thinking in England since the sixteenth century. A glossary of names and important terms is provided, as well as an annotated bibliography.

Download or read book Philosophical Inquiry written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Narcissus and the Pomegranate written by Ann Suter and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines in detail the two myths in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter and the relation of the hymn to historic cult activities at Eleusis