The well-read muse
present and past in Callimachus and the Hellenistic poets
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Word Count
40,750 words, Guess
Page Count
163 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL2278465M
- ISBN-103525251890
- OCLC Control Number18820989
- OCLC Control Numberwellreadmusepres0000bing
- Library of Congress Control Number89169752
and 2 more
- LibraryThing7067693
- Goodreads1188635
Classifications
- DDC881/.01
- LCCPA3945.Z5 B56 1988
Description
"In this study, the author investigates the era in which the written work - the book - superseded the assumption of oral composition and performance. In this and 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."--Jacket.
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- The well-read muse: present and past in Callimachus and the Hellenistic poets
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