Tony Harrison
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-4742-9933-6 (ISBN)
Tony Harrison's large body of work, for which he has won several major and international prizes, and which features on the UK National Curriculum, ranges widely across long and short poems, plays, translations and film poems. Having studied Classics at Grammar School and University and having translated ancient poets from Aeschylus to Martial and Palladas, Harrison has been immersed in the myths, history, literary forms and authorial voices of Mediterranean antiquity for his entire working life and his classical interests are reflected in every poetic genre he has essayed, from epigrams and sonnets to original stage plays, translations of Greek drama and Racine, to his experimental and harrowing film poems, where he has pioneered the welding of tightly cut video materials to tightly phrased verse forms. This volume explores the full breadth of his oeuvre, offering an insightful new perspective on a writer who has played an important part in shaping our contemporary literary landscape.
Edith Hall is Professor of Classics at King’s College London, UK. She has published more than thirty volumes on ancient Greek and Roman literature and their reception and has been a judge of the Stephen Spender prize for literary translation and the Society for Theatre Research Book of the Year.
Acknowledgements
Timeline of Tony Harrison’s Classics-Informed Works
1 ‘Models of eloquence’: Radical Classicism
2 ‘Stone bodies’: Statuary in The Loiners (1970) and Palladas (1975)
3 ‘Frontiers of Appetite’: Phaedra Britannica (1975)
4 ‘Shaggermemnon’: Aeschylus’ Oresteia and Continuous (1981)
5 ‘All the versuses of life’: ‘v.’ and Medea: A Sex-War Opera (1985)
6 ‘Bookworm excreta’: The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus (1988) and Other Plays and Poems
7 ‘End to end in technicolour’: Prometheus (1998) and Other Films
8 ‘Witnessed horror’: Fram (2008) and Harrison’s Euripides
9 ‘Surviving the slopes of Parnassus’: ‘Polygons’ (2015) and Other Poems
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 15.01.2021 |
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Reihe/Serie | Classical Receptions in Twentieth-Century Writing |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Gewicht | 522 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4742-9933-4 / 1474299334 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4742-9933-6 / 9781474299336 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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