The Politics of Form in Greek Literature explores the relationship between form and political life specifically in Greek textual culture. In the last generation or so, classicists (and their counterparts in other disciplines) have begun to pay greater attention to the socio-historical contexts of literary production and sought to historicize aesthetic practice. However, historicism (and in particular New Historicism) is only one mode of approaching the question of form, which is increasingly brought into dialogue with a number of other issues (e.g. gender).
Bringing together contributions from a range of experts, this volume examines these and other related approaches, assessing their limitations and discussing possibilities for the future. Individual chapters discuss an array of ancient authors, including Homer, Sophocles, Euripides, Plato, Aristotle, Callimachus, and more, and sketch out the specifically Greek contribution to the debate, as well as the implications for other disciplines. What emerges from this book are new ways of thinking about form, and indeed about politics, that will be of value to scholars and students across the humanities and social sciences.
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Table of contents
- Cover page
- Halftitle page
- Series page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- CONTRIBUTORS
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- INTRODUCTION*
- PART I VERSE (AND SOME PROSE)
- CHAPTER 1 DISAGREEMENT, COMPLEXITY AND THE POLITICS OF HOMER’S VERBAL FORM
- CHAPTER 2 SOPHOCLES’ ANTIGONE , FEMINISM’S HEGEL AND THE POLITICS OF FORM
- CHAPTER 3 THE APORIA OF ACTION AND THE AGENCY OF FORM IN EURIPIDES’ IPHIGENEIA IN AULIS1
- CHAPTER 4 FORMS OF SURVIVAL
- PART II PROSE (AND SOME VERSE)
- CHAPTER 5 THE POLITICS OF INFORMED FORM: PLATO AND WALTER BENJAMIN
- CHAPTER 6 PLATO’S SEVENTH LETTER OR HOW TO FASHION A SUBJECT OF RESISTANCE1
- CHAPTER 7 BODY POLITICS IN ARISTOTLE’S POETICS AND RHETORIC
- CHAPTER 8 ARISTOTLE’S LOST WORKS FOR THE PUBLIC AND THE POLITICS OF ACADEMIC FORM
- CHAPTER 9 POLITICS AND FORM IN XENOPHON
- PART III WORD AND IMAGE
- CHAPTER 10 THE POLITICS OF FORM IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY VISIONS OF ANCIENT GREECE
- CHAPTER 11 EKPHRASIS, LEO SPITZER AND THE POLITICS OF FORM1
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
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