ISBN10: 0979971306, ISBN13: 9780979971303, [publisher: Michigan Classical Press] Hardcover
[London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2008]

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ISBN10: 0979971306, ISBN13: 9780979971303, [publisher: Ann Arbor : Michigan Classical Press] Hardcover 163 p. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Small abrasions on the dustjacket. Otherwise good and clean. - Schutzumschlag leicht berieben. Sonst gut und sauber. - "Tradition and originality, the interplay of present and past, are a concern of poets in any age." Peter Bing’s seminal monograph, I he Well-Read Muse: Present and Past in Callimachus and the Hellenistic Poets, chases this idea through the thickets of Hellenistic poetry and particularly among the lines of Callimachus’ Hymn to Delos. In this carefully argued and stimulating study, the author investigates the era in which the written work the book superseded the assumption of oral composition and perfor mance. In this and in other respects, as this study demonstrates, Hellenistic poets saw themselves as now being part of a new world, remote from the great genres and achievements of the earlier literary tradition. That sense of distance from the past gave authors freedom to experiment. At the same time, it incited them to view their poetic heritage as something deserving intense scholarly study. The author examines one fundamental result of this attitude, the Hellenistic tendency toward learned allusion, and what this meant to a period pursuing a different literary approach. The Well-Read Muse ...
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ISBN10: 0979971306, ISBN13: 9780979971303, [publisher: Michigan Classical Press] Hardcover
[Castle Donington, DERBY, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2008]
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ISBN10: 0979971306, ISBN13: 9780979971303, [publisher: Michigan Classical Press] Hardcover Very Good condition. Shows only minor signs of wear, and very minimal markings inside (if any).
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ISBN10: 0979971306, ISBN13: 9780979971303, [publisher: Michigan Classical Press] Hardcover
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ISBN10: 0979971306, ISBN13: 9780979971303, [publisher: Michigan Classical Press] Hardcover Tradition and originality, the interplay of present and past, are a concern of poets in any age. Peter Bing's seminal monograph chases this idea through the thickets of Hellenistic poetry and particularly among the lines of Callimachus' Hymn to Delos. Series: Cultural Legacies. Num Pages: 163 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 237 x 165 x 16. Weight in Grams: 412. . 2008. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
[Olney, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2008]

ISBN10: 0979971306, ISBN13: 9780979971303, [publisher: Michigan Classical Press] Hardcover
[Bayonne, NJ, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2008]
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