Author: SIMONSUURI, KIRSTI
Title: Homer's Original Genius Eighteenth-Century Notions of the Early Greek Epic (1688-1798)
Description: Cambridge University Press, 1979. Hardcover. ISBN: 0521221986. Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and removed pocket. Discard stamps along with adhesive stains and pocket remnants on ffep. Tape stains on back fep. Dustjacket is protected in mylar. Dustjacket spine is sunned. ; Looks at the 'querelle des anciens et des modernes' -- the question whether writers should imitate the classics or use literary forms which seemed more suited to their own era--and the debate in Europe since the earliest days of the Renaissance. ; 240 pages. Good+ in Good+ dust jacket .

Keywords: 0521221986 Literary Theory History & Criticism Literature & Fiction Epic Poetry Classical Greek & Roman Literary Criticism Greek Epic


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