Poetry and Poetics, Greek and Beyond: Essays in Honour of M.S. Silk

Fiona Macintosh, David Ricks

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9781040702505
• Topic: Literatura
• Subtopic: Historia de la antigua Grecia

The publication of Interaction in Poetic Imagery: With Special Reference to Early Greek Poetry in 1974 inaugurated Michael Silk (1941–) as a Hellenist of exceptional learning and critical acumen, as a strenuous and ambitious theorist of literature, and as a comparatist of wide reach within the Western tradition. The present volume honours this distinctive voice in literary studies with a range of chapters addressing some of his many interests, reflecting his deep and growing influence over half a century, and marking out areas for ongoing debate and development.

The 17 chapters range widely and address important issues in the following areas: theory of literature; Greek literature, archaic to classical; the German dimension; classical reflexes beyond Greece and Germany; the Language Question: 'Neo-Latin' and 'modern Greek' cases; and classicizing in a recalcitrant age.

Poetry and Poetics, Greek and Beyond: Essays in Honour of M.S. Silk will appeal to scholars and students alike, especially those concerned with poetry and poetics; students of the classical tradition (or, to take a term which Silk disavows, classical reception); practitioners of comparative literary study; and literary theorists.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• List of figures
• List of contributors
• Part A Theory of literature
• Part B Greek literature, archaic to classical
• Part C The German dimension
• Part D Classical reflexes beyond Greece and Germany
• Part E The language question: ‘Neo-Latin’ and ‘modern Greek’ cases
• Part F Classicizing in a recalcitrant age
• Michael Silk: A Bibliography
• Index