Overview

The publication of Interaction in Poetic Imagery: With Special Reference to Early Greek Poetry in 1974 inaugurated Michael Silk (1941–) as a Hellenist of exceptional learning and critical acumen, as a strenuous and ambitious theorist of literature, and as a comparatist of wide reach within the Western tradition. The present volume honours this distinctive voice in literary studies with a range of chapters addressing some of his many interests, reflecting his deep and growing influence over half a century, and marking out areas for ongoing debate and development. The 17 chapters range widely and address important issues in the following areas: theory of literature; Greek literature, archaic to classical; the German dimension; classical reflexes beyond Greece and Germany; the Language Question: ‘Neo-Latin’ and ‘modern Greek’ cases; and classicizing in a recalcitrant age. Poetry and Poetics, Greek and Beyond: Essays in Honour of M.S. Silk will appeal to scholars and students alike, especially those concerned with poetry and poetics; students of the classical tradition (or, to take a term which Silk disavows, classical reception); practitioners of comparative literary study; and literary theorists.

Full Product Details

9781032585086

Table of Contents

Reviews

Author Information

Fiona Macintosh is Emeritus Professor of Classical Reception and Senior Research Fellow at St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford. She was the Director of the APGRD in Oxford from 2010 to 2024 and has published widely on the reception of ancient epic and tragedy in the modern world. David Ricks is Professor Emeritus, King’s College London, and sometime editor of the journals Dialogos: Hellenic Studies Review and Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies. He has written widely on modern Greek poetry and on the classical tradition.

Tab Content 6

Countries Available