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Author : Graham Zanker
Release : 1987
Genre : Authors and readers
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Book Synopsis Realism in Alexandrian Poetry by : Graham Zanker
Download or read book Realism in Alexandrian Poetry written by Graham Zanker. This book was released on 1987. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Graham Zanker
Release : 2024-10-31
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Realism in Alexandrian Poetry by : Graham Zanker
Download or read book Realism in Alexandrian Poetry written by Graham Zanker. This book was released on 2024-10-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poetry of Alexandria under the first three Ptolemies represents a second golden age of Greek literature. The eminence grise of poetic circles was Callimachus, whose poetic manifesto in favour of small scale, meticulously detailed and mannered works was to be of great influence on Augustan poetry in Rome. The stylistic aims of the Alexandrian poets have been much discussed, as has their reliance on literary tradition. First published in 1987, Realism in Alexandrian Poetry covers less familiar ground. Taking the whole canon of Alexandrian poetry as his starting point, Dr Zanker surveys the use of the realistic mode in works like The Idylls of Theocritus (were these real shepherds?), including such matters as the humorous elements of Callimachus Hymns, the love-story in Apollonius’ ‘Argonautica’, and the low-life sketches of epyllia like Hecale as well as the Mimes of Herodas. The striving for realism and minute detail is set in the context of the admiration of pictorialism in the plastic arts, the new valuation of science as a measure of human experience, and the deliberate mingling of high and low genres. All this is in turn placed in the cultural context of early Alexandria. Few books take the whole of Alexandrian poetry as their canvas. This one which does will be as valuable a study of the Alexandrian poets as it will be a forceful contribution to literary criticism.
Author : Graham Zanker
Release : 2008-02-04
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis Modes of Viewing in Hellenistic Poetry and Art by : Graham Zanker
Download or read book Modes of Viewing in Hellenistic Poetry and Art written by Graham Zanker. This book was released on 2008-02-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking a fresh look at the poetry and visual art of the Hellenistic age, from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C. to the Romans’ defeat of Cleopatra in 30 B.C., Graham Zanker makes enlightening discoveries about the assumptions and conventions of Hellenistic poets and artists and their audiences. Zanker’s exciting new interpretations closely compare poetry and art for the light each sheds on the other. He finds, for example, an exuberant expansion of subject matter in the Hellenistic periods in both literature and art, as styles and iconographic traditions reserved for grander concepts in earlier eras were applied to themes, motifs, and subjects that were emphatically less grand.
Author : Gregory Nagy
Release : 2001
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Greek Literature: Greek literature in the Hellenistic period by : Gregory Nagy
Download or read book Greek Literature: Greek literature in the Hellenistic period written by Gregory Nagy. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Jerry Clack
Release : 1982
Genre : Greek poetry
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Book Synopsis An Anthology of Alexandrian Poetry by : Jerry Clack
Download or read book An Anthology of Alexandrian Poetry written by Jerry Clack. This book was released on 1982. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
