Literary Imagination, Ancient and Modern: Essays in Honor of David GreneTodd Breyfogle Perhaps best known for his widely acclaimed translations of the Greek tragedies and Herodotus's History, as well as his edition of Hobbes's Thucydides, David Grene has also had a major impact as a teacher and interpreter of texts both ancient and modern. In this book, distinguished colleagues and former students explore the imaginative force of literature and history in articulating and illuminating the human condition. Ranging as widely as Grene's own interests in Greek and Roman antiquity, in drama, poetry, and the novel, in the art of translation, and in English history, these essays include discussions of the Odyssey and Ulysses, the Metamorphoses of Ovid and Apuleius, Mallarmé's English and T. S. Eliot's religion, and the mutually antipathetic minds of Edmund Burke and Thomas Jefferson. The introduction by Todd Breyfogle sketches for the first time the contours of Grene's own thought. Classicists, political theorists, intellectual historians, philosophers, and students of literature will all find much of value in the individual essays here and in the juxtaposition of their themes. Contributors: Saul Bellow, Seth Benardete, Todd Breyfogle, Amirthanayagam P. David, Wendy Doniger, Mary Douglas, Joseph N. Frank, Victor Gourevitch, Nicholas Grene, W. R. Johnson, Brendan Kennelly, Edwin McClellan, Françoise Meltzer, Stephanie Nelson, Conor Cruise O'Brien, Martin Ostwald, Robert B. Pippin, James Redfield, Sandra F. Siegel, Norma Thompson, and David Tracy |
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... fact , moreover , that David has outlasted other distinguished friends and colleagues who might have contributed to an earlier volume in his honor , or who might have contributed to this one had it not been for their untimely passing ...
... fact , moreover , that David has outlasted other distinguished friends and colleagues who might have contributed to an earlier volume in his honor , or who might have contributed to this one had it not been for their untimely passing ...
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... facts , and the artist who is the historian lets the implications spring from the story , not the story from a theory . For David , as for the Greeks , practice comes before and is separate from— indeed frequently calls into question ...
... facts , and the artist who is the historian lets the implications spring from the story , not the story from a theory . For David , as for the Greeks , practice comes before and is separate from— indeed frequently calls into question ...
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... facts or they will not constitute history . " 25 The imposition of a pattern upon the facts is an activity common to ... fact that he " continually values the abstract and general over what is alive and personal . " The poetry , like the ...
... facts or they will not constitute history . " 25 The imposition of a pattern upon the facts is an activity common to ... fact that he " continually values the abstract and general over what is alive and personal . " The poetry , like the ...
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... facts and about the people who convey them , believingly or disbelievingly . As David wrote in his introduction to Herodotus : " The original facts , whatever they were , have taken to themselves a supervening shape — universal ...
... facts and about the people who convey them , believingly or disbelievingly . As David wrote in his introduction to Herodotus : " The original facts , whatever they were , have taken to themselves a supervening shape — universal ...
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... fact that time can neither be recovered nor escaped . The heroic task , then , is to reconcile oneself to time in time . " Only through time time is conquered . " Wendy Doniger takes the theme of time in a different direction , com ...
... fact that time can neither be recovered nor escaped . The heroic task , then , is to reconcile oneself to time in time . " Only through time time is conquered . " Wendy Doniger takes the theme of time in a different direction , com ...
Contents
Atheism and the Religiosity of Euripides | 33 |
Poetry and Philosophy in Aristophanes Clouds | 50 |
Calypsos Choice Immortality and Heroic Striving in the Odyssey and Ulysses | 63 |
The Homecomings of Odysseus and Nala | 90 |
A Bird a Mouse a Frog and Some Fish A New Reading of Leviticus II | 110 |
Confabulating Cephalus SelfNarration in Ovids Metamorphoses 7672865 | 127 |
Memory and Imagination in Augustines Confessions | 139 |
Metamorphosis and Conversion Apuleiuss Metamorphoses | 155 |
Synge Reality and the Imagination of Place | 243 |
Mallarmé and English | 256 |
T S Eliot as Religious Thinker Four Quartets | 269 |
Rousseau on Providence | 285 |
Dostoyevskys Trojan Horse A Raw Youth | 312 |
Henry James and Modern Moral Life | 334 |
Edmund Burke and Thomas Jefferson Mutually Antipathetic Minds | 360 |
Postlude | 373 |
Against Entertainment Plato and the Poets Revisited | 177 |
Interlude | 201 |
An Essay by Soseki | 203 |
Part Two | 207 |
I Know Thee Not Old Man The Renunciation of Falstaff | 209 |
Transforming Conventions The Trope of Decorum and Thomas Sheridans Captain OBlunder | 228 |
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