Gideon Nisbet

Greek Epigram in Reception

J. A. Symonds, Oscar Wilde, and the Invention of Desire, 1805-1929

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Tracing the evolution and reception history of a collection of ancient Greek epigrams from the early nineteenth to twentieth century, the volume analyses the rhetoric which writers and translators brought to the text, highlighting the after effects of this cultural war on the interpretations of Ancient Greece in British print culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 398
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 140mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780199662494
• ISBN-10: 0199662495
• Artikelnr.: 38619814

Autorenporträt

Gideon Nisbet is a Reader in Classics at the University of Birmingham. He is known for his publications in ancient epigram and the reception of classical Greece and Rome in modern culture.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1: The Descent from Olympus
1: The Miscellanies of Bland and Merivale
2: Three Mid-Century 'Anthologies'
Part 2: Wilde's Meleager
3: 'The Most Precious Relic'
4: 'The True Liber Amoris at Last'
Part 3: 'The Book of Greek Life'
5: Response to Symonds
6: Reed and Girdle: The Anthology in the 1920s
Conclusion
Appendix: Symonds and the LAnguage of Gems
Bibliography
Index