Imitating Authors: Plato to Futurity

Author:   Prof Colin Burrow (Senior Research Fellow, Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780198838081


Pages:   496
Publication Date:   16 May 2019
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Author:   Prof Colin Burrow (Senior Research Fellow, Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.80cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 14.10cm
Weight:   0.866kg
ISBN:  

9780198838081


ISBN 10:   0198838085
Pages:   496
Publication Date:   16 May 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface Abbreviations and a Note on the Texts Introduction Part 1: Antiquity 1: From Mimēsis to Imitatio: Before and After Plato Building Bodies: Imitatio and the Roman Rhetorical Tradition Dreamitation: Lucretius, Homer, Virgil Part 2: Early Modernity 4: Petrarchan Transformations 5: Adaptive Imitation: Ciceronians, Courtiers and Quixotes 6: Formal Imitation: The 'Leaden-Headed Germans' and Their English Heirs 7: Ben Jonson: Formal Imitation Part 3: Milton and After 8: Milton: Modelling the Ancients 9: Imitation in the Age of Literary Property: Pope to Wordsworth 10: The Promethean Moment: Mary Shelley and Milton's Monstrous Progeny Posthuman Postscript: Poems more Durable than Brass Bibliography

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one of the finest authors of the English language in this century...this is a book of intoxicating depth that will leave many intelligent readers astonied at their own ignorance in comparison...I highly recommend a full engagement with Burrow's text. * Dr Clifford Cunningham, University of Southern Queensland, Sun News Tucson *


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Colin Burrow was a Fellow and Tutor and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, before he took up a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, in 2006. He has written extensively about classical and early modern British and European literature, and has edited the complete poetry of Shakespeare, Ben Jonson and (forthcoming) John Marston. He is an editor of Review of English Studies, and (with Jonathan Bate) General Editor of the Oxford English Literary History for which he is writing the Elizabethan volume. He is a regular reviewer for The London Review of Books.

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