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Oscar Wilde and ancient Greece /
"From his boyhood Oscar Wilde was haunted by the literature and culture of ancient Greece, but until now no full-length study has considered in detail the texts, institutions and landscapes through which he imagined Greece. The archaeology of Celtic Ireland, explored by the young Wilde on excav...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;
82. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; OSCAR WILDE AND ANCIENT GREECE; CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE AND CULTURE; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Note on transliteration; Abbreviations; Introduction; A CONTEXT; A METHOD; CHAPTER 1 Paideia; ARCHAEOLOGY AT HOME; PORTORA; TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN; Tyrrell and Kottabos; Meineke and the Berkeley Gold Medal for Greek; Mahaffy and Social Life in Greece; OXFORD; Mods; Greats; The commonplace book; ARCHAEOLOGY IN HELLAS; First sightings; Disappointment in Olympia; Arkadia; Argos and Mykenai; Athens; CHAPTER 2 Poiêsis.
- MUTHOS OR LOGOS?Context: Symonds and Pater; Rhetoric in the age of style; Mythography in Intentions; THE ENCOUNTER WITH KEATS IN POEMS AND THE SPHINX; 'Charmides'; Ode on an Egyptian Sphinx; 'THE LITERATURE OF ECHOES': TRANSLATING GREEK; Wilde as translator; Orthography; Wilde on translating; CHAPTER 3 Archaiologia; 'THE ANCIENT WORLD WAKES FROM ITS SLEEP': THE DREAM OF A TOTAL RECONSTRUCTION; The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies; History in fiction; Alma Tadema; Archaeology on stage; ARCHAEOLOGY REPUDIATED; STYLE OF A NEW HELLENIST; CHAPTER 4 Philologia; THE BREAK WITH MAHAFFY.
- Development and declineHellenism and 'Hellenism'; Belatedness; 'The Critic as Artist'; 'A BOOK NOT TO READ AT ALL': GRANT'S ARISTOTLE'S ETHICS; Sources; Grant's Aristotle; Proairesis; Praxis or poiêsis?; Hexis; Energeia; The Soul of Man; PLATO, 'THAT ARTIST IN THOUGHT'; Grote and Jowett; The theory of forms; Plato's theory of art; Love and recollection; THE DORIAN MODE; ION IN EARNEST: THE NEW COMEDY; HELLENISM REPUDIATED?; Giving the earth-gods their due; The cruelty of Apollo; Jesus Hellenised; APPENDIX A: Trinity College Dublin syllabus.
- APPENDIX B: Oxford syllabus, School of Literae HumanioresAPPENDIX C: Wilde's notes on his time in Greece; APPENDIX D: Wilde's exercises in Greek tragic verse composition; APPENDIX E: Wilde's notes on Aristotle's Ethics; APPENDIX F: Wilde's notes on Pre-Socratic and Platonic philosophy; APPENDIX G: Wilde's exercises in Greek comic verse composition; Notes; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1: PAIDEIA; CHAPTER 2: POIÊSIS; CHAPTER 3: ARCHAIOLOGIA; CHAPTER 4: PHILOLOGIA; APPENDIX A; APPENDIX C; Bibliography; PRIMARY SOURCES: MANUSCRIPTS; PRIMARY SOURCES: PRINTED WORKS; SECONDARY SOURCES; Index.