Epiploke: Rhythmical Continuity and Poetic Structure in Greek Lyric (Loeb Classical Monographs)

Thomas Cole

ISBN 10: 0674258223 / ISBN 13: 9780674258228

Verlag: Harvard University Department of the Classics, 1988

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Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers G-688-669

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Epiploke: Rhythmical Continuity and Poetic Structure in Greek Lyric (Loeb Classical Monographs)
• Verlag: Harvard University Department of the Classics
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1988
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0674258223
• ISBN-13: 9780674258228
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: Bon

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Inhaltsangabe

Ancient metricians saw Greek verse in essentially paradigmatic terms, as a mosaic of discrete feet or phrases, each with its own name and each conforming, within a permitted range of variation, to some fixed model. The syntagmatic alternative to this view offered here represents the first attempt since the early nineteenth century to make a decisive break with inherited metrical categories and assumptions. It argues that feet and phrases, to the extent that they exist at all in Greek lyric verse, tend to be present at the level of parole rather than langue―constituting one of a number of possible ways of articulating some larger rhythmical continuum. These larger rhythmical structures, comparable to the movements of a piece of Classical Western music but allowing for a more fluid bar structure, a greater variety of basic time signatures, and more frequent modulation, are the minimal independent utterances in lyric discourse.

Recognition of their existence and character allows a reduction of the bewildering multiplicity of rhythmical nomenclature to something much more simple and manageable, as well as a clearer view both of the architectonics of the Greek stanza and of the main lines of its development during the three centuries (700–400 B.C.) when rhythmical innovation and experimentation were at their height. The organization of the book is partially by genres, partially historical; its use in the study of individual passages is facilitated by a full index locorum.

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Charlotte y Peter Fiell son dos autoridades en historia, teoría y crítica del diseño y han escrito más de sesenta libros sobre la materia, muchos de los cuales se han convertido en éxitos de ventas. También han impartido conferencias y cursos como profesores invitados, han comisariado exposiciones y asesorado a fabricantes, museos, salas de subastas y grandes coleccionistas privados de todo el mundo. Los Fiell han escrito numerosos libros para TASCHEN, entre los que se incluyen 1000 Chairs, Diseño del siglo XX, El diseño industrial de la A a la Z, Scandinavian Design y Diseño del siglo XXI.