Authors:Irene J. F. De Jong, I. J. F. De. Jong, J. P. Sulliv
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Keywords: bibliotheca, classica, batava, supplementum, mnemosyne, literature, critical, theory, classical, modern
Number of Pages: 292
Published: 1997-08
List price: $160.00
ISBN-10: 9004095713
ISBN-13: 9789004095717

In recent decades the study of literature in Europe and the Americas has been profoundly influenced by modern critical theory in its various forms, whether Structuralism or Deconstructionism, Hermeneutics, Reader-Response Theory or Rezeptionsasthetik, Semiotics or Narratology, Marxist, feminist, neo-historical, psychoanalytical or other perspectives. Whilst the value and validity of such approaches to literature is still a matter of some dispute, not least among classical scholars, they have had a substantial impact on the study both of classical literatures and of the m