1st Edition
Lyric Texts and Lyric Consciousness The Birth of a Genre from Archaic Greece to Augustan Rome
By Paul Allen Miller
Copyright 1994
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
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Lyric Texts and Lyric Consciousness presents a model for studying the history of lyric as a genre. Prof Miller draws 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 a sophisticated, Bakhtinian reading of the development of the lyric form from its origins in archaic... 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: of Writings and Subjects;
Biography
Paul Allen Miller
