248 Pages
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Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
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Routledge
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First published in 1994. Lyric Texts and Lyric Consciousness presents a model for studying the history of lyric as a genre. Professor Miller drawls a distinction between the work of the Greek lyrists and the more condensed, personal poetry that we associate with lyric. He then confronts the theoretical issues and presents sophisticated, Bakhtinian reading of the development of lyric form from its... Read more
Chapter 1 The Subject of the Text; Chapter 2 Epos and Iambos or Archilochus Meets the Wolfman; Chapter 3 De Generibus Disputandum Est; Chapter 4 The Garden of Forking Paths; Chapter 5 A Poet’s Place; Chapter 6 Sapphica Puella; Chapter 7 Rome, Alexandria, and the Politics of Lyric; Chapter 8 Horace, Mercury, and Augustus; Chapter 9 Conclusion;
Biography
Paul Allen Miller is Assistant Professor of Classic and Comparative literature at Texas Tech University.
