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"With essays that cover canonical Beat authors such as Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs as well as less well-known figures like Kenneth Rexroth, Ed Sanders, and Diane di Prima, this volume focuses on the Beat movement's appropriation of the Greek and Latin classics as a formative element of their literary movement"--

Classical literature --- American literature --- Authors, American --- Beats (Persons) --- Beat generation --- Beatniks --- Persons --- Bohemianism --- American authors --- Literature, Classical --- Literature --- Literature, Ancient --- Greek literature --- Latin literature --- Influence. --- History and criticism.

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Ancient and medieval labyrinths embody paradox, according to Penelope Reed Doob. Their structure allows a double perspective-the baffling, fragmented prospect confronting the maze-treader within, and the comprehensive vision available to those without. Mazes simultaneously assert order and chaos, artistry and confusion, articulated clarity and bewildering complexity, perfected pattern and hesitant process. In this handsomely illustrated book, Doob reconstructs from a variety of literary and visual sources the idea of the labyrinth from the classical period through the Middle Ages.Doob first examines several complementary traditions of the maze topos, showing how ancient historical and geographical writings generate metaphors in which the labyrinth signifies admirable complexity, while poetic texts tend to suggest that the labyrinth is a sign of moral duplicity. She then describes two common models of the labyrinth and explores their formal implications: the unicursal model, with no false turnings, found almost universally in the visual arts; and the multicursal model, with blind alleys and dead ends, characteristic of literary texts. This paradigmatic clash between the labyrinths of art and of literature becomes a key to the metaphorical potential of the maze, as Doob's examination of a vast array of materials from the classical period through the Middle Ages suggests. She concludes with linked readings of four "labyrinths of words": Virgil's Aeneid, Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy, Dante's Divine Comedy, and Chaucer's House of Fame, each of which plays with and transforms received ideas of the labyrinth as well as reflecting and responding to aspects of the texts that influenced it.Doob not only provides fresh theoretical and historical perspectives on the labyrinth tradition, but also portrays a complex medieval aesthetic that helps us to approach structurally elaborate early works. Readers in such fields as Classical literature, Medieval Studies, Renaissance Studies, comparative literature, literary theory, art history, and intellectual history will welcome this wide-ranging and illuminating book.

Doolhoven in de literatuur --- Labyrinten in de literatuur --- Labyrinthes dans la littérature --- Labyrinths in literature --- Classical literature --- -Labyrinths in art --- Literature, Medieval --- -European literature --- Medieval literature --- Literature, Classical --- Literature --- Literature, Ancient --- Greek literature --- Latin literature --- History and criticism --- Labyrinths in art. --- Labyrinths in literature. --- History and criticism. --- -History and criticism --- Labyrinths in art --- Literature [Medieval ]

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Dans une perspective diachronique et pluridisciplinaire, les contributions de ce volume se proposent d'explorer les différentes formes d’appropriation, d’adaptation ou de détournement de la mythologie, qui ont abouti d’un côté à des lectures originales des fables anciennes, de l’autre à un nouveau statut du mythe, voire à des modèles mythologiques différents. Dès l'Antiquité, la mise à distance du mythe a été une source de créativité, renouvelant les formes d’écriture et conduisant à une réorganisation du patrimoine culturel mythologique. En relation avec la polémique soulevée par Platon, les commentateurs néoplatoniciens et les mythographes de l’Antiquité tardive ont engagé un véritable débat sur le bon usage des mythes, sur lequel se sont greffés, au Moyen Âge, des discours supplémentaires, par le biais de la traduction, de la glose et de la réécriture. La réflexion médiévale sur le mythe a entraîné une adaptation de la matière mythologique ancienne, voire un détournement de son sens premier lorsque les récits mythiques païens ont été mis au service des valeurs courtoises et de la Révélation. Le discours moderne sur le mythe s’est enrichi, lui, d’autres instruments (la psychanalyse littéraire, la mythocritique…) et a permis d’avancer des interprétations inédites de l’héritage mythologique, ancien et médiéval, ainsi que de nourrir les discussions sur la nature du mythe.

Myth in literature --- Mythology in literature --- Literature, Ancient --- Literature, Modern --- Mythe dans la littérature --- Mythologie dans la littérature --- Littérature ancienne --- Littérature moderne --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Mythe dans la littérature --- Mythologie dans la littérature --- Littérature ancienne --- Littérature moderne --- Mythologie classique --- Mythe --- Dans l'art --- Dans la littérature --- Philosophie --- Classics --- Philosophy --- mythologie --- art --- littérature --- philosophie

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Figure critique majeure des études de philologie classique en Italie, Diego Lanza a renouvelé en profondeur l'approche des œuvres de la littérature grecque ancienne. Ses travaux conjuguent un intérêt, partiellement hérité de la philologie historique, pour l'histoire de la tradition, avec une analyse, inspirée notamment de Marx et de Gramsci, de la fonction des textes anciens comme instruments de médiation idéologique, interrogeant ainsi conjointement le passé et le présent des appropriations culturelles. Les problématiques de l'anthropologie occupent une place privilégiée dans sa lecture de l’Antiquité, mais leur espace de référence n’est pas celui de l’anthropologie structurale, de la psychologie historique ou de la critique symbolique de l’école française. C’est plutôt l’étude du folklore, où l’analyse de la culture populaire est orientée par un intérêt spécifique pour les antagonismes qui la structurent. Les essais réunis dans ce volume reviennent sur les objets auxquels Diego Lanza s’est intéressé – poésie archaïque (Homère), théâtre classique (Euripide, Aristophane), philosophie « présocratique » et classique (Anaxagore, Aristote), histoire de la philologie – et dans la diversité de leurs points de vue, esquissent un bilan des aspects les plus significatifs d’une œuvre scientifique originale et stimulante.

Classical philology --- Classical literature --- Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures --- Languages & Literatures --- History and criticism --- Literature, Classical --- Philology, Classical --- Literature --- Literature, Ancient --- Greek literature --- Latin literature --- Classical antiquities --- Greek language --- Greek philology --- Humanism --- Latin language --- Latin philology --- philosophie --- poésie --- anthropologie --- philologie --- poétique --- Antiquité --- théâtre --- idéologie

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The rebirth of Ancient Greek in Europe was promoted by Humanist education and ideas to such an extent that we can consider the Greek language as a formative element of Humanist culture. Next to Latin, the default common language, a Humanist has to know and use Greek, because he is not, cannot and will not be a barbarian: barbaros ou pelomai, as Julius Caesar Scaliger claimed in his verses in 1600. Wreaths (stephanoi) have been the symbols of the cult of Muses from ancient times. After the love for Greek Muses had been revived by Renaissance Humanist poets and scholars, it has remained with us both in poetic activity and in scholarship. The Hellenostephanos volume presents a collection of papers by scholars who study Humanist Greek, aspiring towards another revival of Hellenism, and trying to avoid being barbarians. The volume includes papers by Christian Gastgeber, Gita Bērziņa, Janika Päll, Charalampos Minaoglou, Erkki Sironen, Kaspar Kolk, Tua Korhonen, Johanna Akujärvi, Bartosz Awianowicz, Jean-Marie Flamand, Walther Ludwig, Alessandra Lukinovich, Martin Steinrück, Tomas Veteikis, Grigory Vorobyev, Vlado Rezar, Pieta van Beek, and Antoine Haaker.

Hellenic languages --- Classical texts --- Literary studies: classical, early & medieval --- Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 --- Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700 --- Social & cultural history --- Humanism --- Humanist education --- Humanist culture --- Humanist Greek --- Ancient Greek --- Hellenism --- Greeks --- Renaissance humanism --- Classical texts. --- Hellenic languages. --- Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800. --- Social & cultural history. --- Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700. bicssc. --- History --- Europe --- Intellectual life --- Classical texts. bicssc. --- Hellenic languages. bicssc. --- Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800. bicssc. --- Social & cultural history. bicssc. --- Philosophy --- Classical education --- Classical philology --- Philosophical anthropology --- Renaissance --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Classical literature. --- Greek language, Modern. --- Social history. --- Civilization --- Cultural history --- Descriptive sociology --- Social conditions --- Social history --- Sociology --- Romaic language --- Literature, Classical --- Literature --- Literature, Ancient --- Greek literature --- Latin literature