(Ebook) The Classical Tradition Greek and Roman Influences on Western Literature 1st Edition by Gilbert Highet ISBN 0195002067 9780195002065

(Ebook) The Classical Tradition Greek and Roman Influences on Western Literature 1st Edition by Gilbert Highet ISBN 0195002067 9780195002065

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ISBN 10: 0195002067 
ISBN 13: 9780195002065
Author: Gilbert Highet

Originally published in 1949, Gilbert Highet's seminal The Classical Tradition is a herculean feat of comparative literature and a landmark publication in the history of classical reception. As Highet states in the opening lines of his Preface, this book outlines "the chief ways in which Greek and Latin influence has moulded the literatures of western Europe and America". With that simple statement, Highet takes his reader on a sweeping exploration of the history of western literature. To summarize what he covers is a near-impossible task. Discussions of Ovid and French literature of the Middle Ages and Chaucer's engagement with Virgil and Cicero lead, swiftly, into arguments of Christian versus "pagan" works in the Renaissance, Baroque imitations of Seneca, and the (re)birth of satire. Building momentum through Byron, Tennyson, and the rise of "art of art's sake", Highet, at last, arrives at his conclusion: the birth and establishment of modernism. Though his humanist style may appear out-of-date in today's postmodernist world, there is a value to ensuring this influential work reaches a new generation, and Highet's light touch and persuasive, engaging voice guarantee the book's usefulness for a contemporary audience. Indeed, the book is free of the jargon-filled style of literary criticism that plagues much of current scholarship. Accompanied by a new foreword by renown critic Harold Bloom, this reissue will enable new readers to appreciate the enormous legacy of classical literature in the canonical works of medieval, Renaissance, and modern Europe and America.

(Ebook) The Classical Tradition Greek and Roman Influences on Western Literature 1st Table of contents:

1 Introduction
2 The Dark Ages: English Literature
3 The Middle Ages: French Literature
4 Dante and Pagan Antiquity
5 Towards the Renaissance
6 The Renaissane Translation
7 The Renaissance Drama
8 The Renaissance Epic
9 the Renaissance Pastoral and Romance
10 Rabelais And Montaigne
11 Sshakespeare's Classics
12 The Renaissance and Afterwards: Lyric Poetry
13 Transition
14 The Battle of the Books
15 A Note on Baroque
16 Baroque Tragedy
17 Satire
18 Baroque Prose
19 The Time of Revolution
20 Parnassus and Antichrist
21 A Century of Scholarship
22 The Symbolist Poets and James Joyce
23 The Reinterpretation of the Myths
24 Conclusion

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