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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... never be more than a kind of approxima- tion , in those terms . " Nor should a translator seek to render " hidden " meanings explicit . Yet , the translator must strive for a rendering that cap- tures the tenor of the original , that ...
... never be more than a kind of approxima- tion , in those terms . " Nor should a translator seek to render " hidden " meanings explicit . Yet , the translator must strive for a rendering that cap- tures the tenor of the original , that ...
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... never wholly dominate . David brings to his translations not only the keenest understanding of meaning in Greek and a rich English vocabulary but also an intimate knowledge of the dramatic power of the stage and an ear for the rhythms ...
... never wholly dominate . David brings to his translations not only the keenest understanding of meaning in Greek and a rich English vocabulary but also an intimate knowledge of the dramatic power of the stage and an ear for the rhythms ...
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... never adequately judged or expressed by men's notion of moral excellence . " The hero is human , all too human , and yet transcends hu- manity . The strength of Sophocles ' plays " lies in their rendering of what it feels like to be ...
... never adequately judged or expressed by men's notion of moral excellence . " The hero is human , all too human , and yet transcends hu- manity . The strength of Sophocles ' plays " lies in their rendering of what it feels like to be ...
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... never devoid of human form . " The pecu- liar ironies of chance , " David writes of Thucydides , " inspired him with a kind of horror " in which " the disproportion between the people and their fate awakened a human pity which is ...
... never devoid of human form . " The pecu- liar ironies of chance , " David writes of Thucydides , " inspired him with a kind of horror " in which " the disproportion between the people and their fate awakened a human pity which is ...
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... never static emblems of vice and virtue but are instead inherently at variance with themselves . " Indeed , Shakespeare's sense of " the theatricality of human reason " shows that thought , like life , is constantly at variance with ...
... never static emblems of vice and virtue but are instead inherently at variance with themselves . " Indeed , Shakespeare's sense of " the theatricality of human reason " shows that thought , like life , is constantly at variance with ...
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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