Автор:Steven Shankman Год: 2004 Издание:Книга по Требованию Страниц: 352 ISBN: 9780271025728 ""This is a stimulating book that should provoke rethinking many common assumptions about literary history. It offers both a coherent theoretical framework and many fresh insights into particular works.""-Comparative Literature The ""classical,"" Steven Shankman argues, should be not confused with a particular historical period of Western antiquity, although it may owe its original articulation to the literary and philosophical explorations of ancient Greek authors. Shankman's book searches for and attempts to formulate the shape of the continuing presence-as embodied in particular literary works mainly from Western antiquity and the neoclassical and modern periods-of what the author calls a ""classical"" understanding of literature. For Shankman, literature, defined from a classical perspective, is a coherent, compelling, and rationally defensible representation that resists being reduced either to the mere recording of material reality or to the bare exemplification of an...
