| Lyric Texts and Lyric Consciousness: The Birth of a Genre from Archaic Greece to Augustan Rome Contributor(s): Miller, Paul Allen (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415105188 ISBN-13: 9780415105187 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $171.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 1994 Annotation: "Lyric Texts and Lyric Consciousness" presents a model for studying the history of lyric as a genre. Paul Allen Miller draws a distinction between the work of the Greek lyricists and the more condensed, personal poetry that we associate with lyric. He then confronts the theoretical issues and presents a sophisticated, Bakhtinian reading of the development of the lyric form from its origins in archaic Greece to the more individualist style of Augustan Rome. The book examines different forms of poetic subjectivity projected by ancient authors--Archilochus, Sappho, Catullus and Horace--through a close reading of both their texts and contexts. Miller argues that what is considered lyric--a short personal poem which reveals a reflexive subjective consciousness--is only possible in a culture of writing. It is the lyric collection which creates literary consciousness as we know it. This consciousness also requires a social structure where individuals can speak in their own names, not merely in that of their state or class. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Ancient - General |
| Dewey: 884.010 |
| LCCN: 93021184 |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.02 lbs) 248 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) |
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| Publisher Description: 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 sophisticated, Bakhtinian reading of the development of the lyric form from its origins in archaic Greece to the more individualist style of Augustan Rome. This book will appeal to classicists and, since English translations of passages from the ancient authors are provided, to those who specialise in comparative literature. |