Amphion: Lyre, Poetry, and Politics in Modernity - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Leah MiddlebrookSeries:Thinking LiteraturePublish date:2024-11-27Pages:208
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226835525ISBN-10:226835529UPC:9780226835525Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Comparative Literature, Poetry, Ancient and ClassicalSize:8.98 x 5.91 x 0.63 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SCWYS3GP4M
Amphion: Lyre, Poetry, and Politics in Modernity
A reintroduction to the myth of Amphion, recovering an overlooked sphere of lyric tradition. Amphion is the figure in Greek mythology who played so skillfully on a lyre that stones moved of their own accord to build walls for Thebes. While Amphion still presides over music and architecture, he was once fundamental to the concept of lyric poetry. Amphion figured the human power to inspire action,...
Series: Thinking Literature
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226835525ISBN-10:226835529UPC:9780226835525Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Comparative Literature, Poetry, Ancient and ClassicalSize:8.98 x 5.91 x 0.63 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SCWYS3GP4M
Leah Middlebrook is associate professor of comparative literature and Romance languages at the University of Oregon. She is the author of Imperial Lyric: New Poetry and New Subjects in Early Modern Spain, and coeditor of Poiesis and Modernity in the Old and New Worlds.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
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