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Book SynopsisHow should a literary scholar approach a text characterized not by stability but by variation and flux? This book offers a radical new perspective on the limits—and the accomplishments—of the modern traditions of textual criticism in classics. Sean...
Trade Review"Iphigenias at Aulis is an outstanding piece of scholarship. It is sure to be a defining work on the cutting edge of a new and burgeoning trend across the humanities and within classical studies as well. The theory is sound, the thesis is daring, the scholarship impeccable, and the readings inventive and convincing." -- James I. Porter, University of Michigan
"Sean Alexander Gurd reconfigures textual criticism as a field through which some of the most pressing questions in the interpretation of literature can be traced. This transformation of classical philology is achieved in a thorough analysis of what is, without doubt, the most complicated, textually, of all the Greek tragedies, Iphigenia at Aulis. Gurd's groundbreaking analysis shows how the textual criticism of this play provides the basis for what he calls a 'radical philology.' In this approach not only is the invigoration of Classical textual criticism at stake but also the invigoration of Classical literature and the history of its reception." -- David S. Ferris, University of Colorado
