Format:
1 Online-Ressource (764 pages)
ISBN:
9781905570805
Content:
Intro -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- GUIDE TO PRONUNCIATION -- PREFACE -- PART I. -- 1. Greek Lyric, Greek Epic, and Old Testament -- the Quarrel of Ancients and Moderns -- 2. Greekless Translators, Theorizing Scholars -- 3. Selected Lyric Poets of Antiquity: Archilochus, Alcman, Anacreon & Ibycus -- 4. Sappho: Antiquity's Poetess and Ours -- 5. Sappho's Eroticism -- 6. The Loves of Men, Gods, and Primordial Forces -- 7. Lesbos, Troy, and Environs -- the Principal Greek Genres and Dialects -- PART II. -- 8. Sappho and the "Lyric Nine," An Aesthetic for Lyric Translation -- 9. The Aesthetic of English-Language Prosody in the Translation of Classical Verse -- 10. Translatability: Achieving Charmand Distinction in Translation -- 11. Translation as the Profession of Ignorance: Mary Barnard, Willis Barnstone, and Others -- 12. Translations Compared -- PART III. -- TRANSLATIONS: -- SAPPHO -- ALCMAN -- ANACREON -- ARCHILOCHUS -- IBYCUS -- PART IV. -- 13. Iliad, Odyssey, and Aeneid: The Epic Cycle in Progress -- 14. Cosmic Preservation and the Heroism of Heracles -- 15. Self-Perpetuation and the Heroism at Troy -- 16. Imperishable Fame and the Evolution of Greek Epic -- 17. Imperishable Fame Denied: Sappho's "Wedding of Hector and Andromache -- 18. Cataclysm Averted: Homer's Separation of Helen and Achilles -- PART V. -- 19. Homeric and Sapphic Meter, Metric Formulae and Oral Composition, the Origins of Rhyming Poetry, Milton on Blank Verse -- 20. Accentuation, Sound, and Word Order in Ancient Greek Poetry -- PART VI. -- 21. Growing Latin from Greek Roots, Rome's Imperial Vision and Its Aftermath -- PART VII. -- 22. Equal to the Gods: Poetic Sublimity, Inner Collapse -- 23. Equal to a God: Form and Content in Convulsive Union -- 24. Frenzied Emotion, Expressive Control: Form and Content Bound -- 25. Modernism Wins Out: Form and Content Abandoned
Content:
26. "Freedom, Freedom, Prison to the Free": The Obfuscatory Unfettered -- 27. Sappho Unbound and Boundaryless - Theorized, Personalized, Politicized -- 28. Boundaries, Artistic Fit, and What "Art" Means and Does -- PART VIII. -- 29. Not Making It New (or Better): Recent Iliads and Aeneids -- 30. So Old It's New (and Better): The Smith/Miller Hexametric Iliad -- 31. On Leaving Well Enough Alone: Rejecting Lattimore for R. Fitzgerald -- 32. Pope's Iliad and E. FitzGerald's Rubáiyát -- Pope on Chapman's Iliad -- 33. Versions and Perversions of Homer: R. Fitzgerald, Fagles, and Logue -- 34. Ezra Pound: Damage to Sextus Propertius -- ADDENDUM -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY
Additional Edition:
9781905570799
Additional Edition:
Print version Duban, Jeffrey M The Lesbian Lyre : Reclaiming Sappho for the 21st Century La Vergne : Rudolf Steiner Press,c2016 9781905570799
Language:
English
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