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Iambic Ideas: Essays on a Poetic Tradition from Archaic Greece to the Late Roman Empire
Contributor(s): Cavarzere, Alberto (Editor), Aloni, Antonio (Editor), Barchiesi, Alessandro (Editor)

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 ISBN: 074250817X     ISBN-13: 9780742508170
Publisher: Rlpg/Galleys
OUR PRICE: $63.00  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: November 2001
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Annotation: Iambic Ideas explores the concept of the iambic as a genre. In a set of detailed studies, the contributors examine, across time, the idea of iambic through a wide variety of cultural settings--Greek, Hellenistic, Roman, and late antiquity. What emerges most clearly is that the iambic idea is impossible to define in absolute terms: rather, the form of iambic keeps varying in response to a vast variety of historical contingencies. The variation is evident in such critical terms as the iambic tendency in Sappho, the reusing of iambi for Roman epodes, and even the instances of iambic absence in comedy and other such related forms. In the end, what is most characteristic about the iambic is its own inherent variability.

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BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General
Dewey: 881.010
LCCN: 2001041693
Series: Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches (Paperback)
Physical Information: 0.82" H x 6.07" W x 9.01" L (0.96 lbs) 278 pages
Features: Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2002 pg. 197
 
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Iambic Ideas, explores the concept of the 'iambic' as a genre. In a set of detailed studies, the contributors examine, across time, the idea of iambic through a wide variety of cultural settings-Greek, Hellenistic, Roman, and late antiquity. What emerges most clearly is that the 'iambic idea' is impossible to define in absolute terms: rather, the form of iambic keeps varying in response to a vast variety of historical contingencies. The variation is evident in such critical terms as the 'iambic tendency' in Sappho, the 'reusing of iambi' for Roman epodes, and even the instances of 'iambic absence' in comedy and other such related forms. In the end, what is most characteristic about the 'iambic' is its own inherent variability.
 
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