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What is distinctive about Greek lyric poetry? How should we conceptualize it in relation to broader categories such as literature / song / music / rhetoric / history? What critical tools might we use to analyse it? How do we, should we, can we relate to its intensities of expression, its modes of address, its uses of myth and imagery, its attitudes to materiality, its sense of its own time, and its contextualizations? These are questions that this discussion seeks to investigate, exploring and analysing a range of influential methodologies that have shaped the recent history of the field.

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Contents From the Past to the Future of the Lyric Subject: Greek Lyric of the Archaic and Classical Periods  David Fearn Abstract Keywords  1 Introduction  2 A Preliminary Case Study: Four Readings of Sappho  3 Sappho: Wider Ramifications  4 Alcaeus, Ibycus, and Anacreon. Sympotic Poetics, Politics, and Erotics  5 Stesichorus: Myth, Narrative, Ornamentation, Interpretability  6 Simonides: Tombs and Pictures  7 Bacchylides: Narrativity and Imagistic Depth  8 Pindar  9 Timotheus, the New Music, and Beyond. Sound Affects References 89

Greek Lyric of the Archaic and Classical Periods: From the Past to the Future of the Lyric Subject

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      Publisher: Brill
      Publication Date: 30/01/2020
      ISBN13: 9789004424364, 978-9004424364
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      Literary studies: ancient, classical

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      Book Synopsis
      What is distinctive about Greek lyric poetry? How should we conceptualize it in relation to broader categories such as literature / song / music / rhetoric / history? What critical tools might we use to analyse it? How do we, should we, can we relate to its intensities of expression, its modes of address, its uses of myth and imagery, its attitudes to materiality, its sense of its own time, and its contextualizations? These are questions that this discussion seeks to investigate, exploring and analysing a range of influential methodologies that have shaped the recent history of the field.

      Table of Contents
      Contents From the Past to the Future of the Lyric Subject: Greek Lyric of the Archaic and Classical Periods  David Fearn Abstract Keywords  1 Introduction  2 A Preliminary Case Study: Four Readings of Sappho  3 Sappho: Wider Ramifications  4 Alcaeus, Ibycus, and Anacreon. Sympotic Poetics, Politics, and Erotics  5 Stesichorus: Myth, Narrative, Ornamentation, Interpretability  6 Simonides: Tombs and Pictures  7 Bacchylides: Narrativity and Imagistic Depth  8 Pindar  9 Timotheus, the New Music, and Beyond. Sound Affects References 89

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