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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: William Fitzgerald (Professor of Latin Language and Literature, Professor of Latin Language and Literature, King's College London)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 24.10cm Weight: 0.624kg ISBN: 9780192893963ISBN 10: 0192893963 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 10 February 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents1: Introduction: Why Neoclassicism? 2: The Iliad Backtranslated: Alexander Pope and John Flaxman 3: Sculpture between the Graceful and the Heroic: Antonio Canova and Bertel Thorvaldsen 4: Voicing Antiquity: the Anacreontea and Charles Leconte de Lisle's Études Latines 5: Modernism, Neoclassicism, and Irony: Erik Satie's Socrate ConclusionReviewsWilliam Fitzgerald's The Living Death of Antiquity is a striking title indeed...This collection of carousing Greek poems from across several centuries, it is claimed, inaugurates something of a tradition itself, advocating a 'timeless lifestyle of drinking, desiring, and singing'. * Greece & Rome * Author InformationAfter taking a BA in Classics at Oxford (1974) and a PhD in Comparative Literature at Princeton (1980), William Fitzgerald taught for 23 years in the US, at the University of California, San Diego and Berkeley. He returned to the UK in 2003 and taught at Cambridge University until 2007, when he became Professor of Latin Language and Literature at King's College London. He has published books and articles on Latin literature, especially poetry, and on classical reception. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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