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Routledge
226 Pages
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Routledge
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From the end of the twentieth century onwards space has become a ‘hot topic’ in literary studies. This thesis contributes to the spatial turn by focusing on space in archaic Greek lyric (7th–5th c bc). A theoretical framework inspired by narratology, phenomenology and metaphor theory is applied to archaic lyric poems in which city, countryside and sea are of importance. Heirman argues that space... Read more
INTRODUCING SPACE IN LYRIC 1. A THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK OF SPACE 2. THE CITY 3. THE COUNTRYSIDE 4. THE SEA 5. CONCLUSION EPILOGUE: THE SYMBOLISM OF SPACE AND THE SYMPOSIUM, BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEX OF PASSAGES, SUMMARY.
Biography
Jo Heirman was educated at Ghent University (Belgium), where he obtained a Master’s Degree in Classics in 2008. In 2008 he was appointed as a PhD-researcher for a project of Irene de Jong on ‘Space in Ancient Greek Literature’ at the University of Amsterdam. He has written several articles on space which combine classics and literary theory. By the end of 2012 he will have edited a conference volume on the ideological role of space in ancient and modern literature with Jacqueline Klooster (The Ideologies of Lived Space in Literature: Ancient and Modern, Academia Press Ghent).
