Sean Alexander Gurd
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4776886 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Sean Alexander Gurd |
| NOMBRES | Sean Alexander |
| APELLIDO | Gurd |
| FIRMA | GURD S A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Missouri |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9739-6547 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2003 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Senses of the Empire
The Origins of Music Theory in the Age of Plato
Listening is a social process. Even apparently trivial acts of listening are expert performances of acquired cognitive and bodily habits. Contemporary scholars acknowledge this fact with the notion that there are "auditory cultures." In the fourth century BCE, Greek philosophers recognized a similar phenomenon in music, which they treated as a privileged site for the cultural manufacture of sensory capabilities, and proof that in a traditional cu…
Orpheus, Euridice, and the classical tradition in Christian Bök’s Xenotext
Christian Bök’s Xenotext project aims to encode a poem (‘Orpheus’) into the genome of an extremophile bacterium in such a way that the bacterium will produce another poem (‘Euridice’) in response. This project, which Bök has been working on for at least a decade, saw a major milestone in 2015 with the publication of Xenotext One (Coach House Books), a collection of poems and theoretical statements related to the central project. Xenotext One cont…
Dissonance
In the four centuries leading up to the death of Euripides in 406 BCE, Greek singers, poets, and theorists delved deep into auditory experience. They charted its capacity to develop topologies distinct from those of the other senses; contemplated its use as a communicator of information; calculated its power to express and cause extreme emotion. They made sound too, artfully and self-consciously creating songs and poems that revelled in sonorousn…
Philology and Greek Literature
This essay provides an overview of the recent revival of interest in philology (a discipline in which both textual criticism and interpretation are at home). Although Greek and Latin have long been central to philological practice, this has changed, and a new renaissance in philology is emerging in the modern languages and comparative literature. Nonetheless, it is clear that this new, global, and comparative philology owes much to Greek philolog…
David Melnick’s Men in Aïda
This article reads Men in Ai&x0308;da , David Melnick’s ‘Homophonic Translation’ of Iliad 1–3, as the product of a poetic technique cognate with both the philological practice of etymology (though refracted through a heterodox prism) and the twentieth-century tradition of sound poetry. In Men in Ai&x0308;da we encounter a subversive re-telling of the Iliad as ‘gay utopia’ (in the words of one of the poem’s commentators) combined with an invocatio…
Resonance
Scholars tend to agree that Aeschylus' choice of material for the Persae was overdetermined: the battle at Salamis and its lead-up constituted a moment of the highest trauma and pride for the Athenian demos , one that could be accommodated to a well-known narrative framework (that of great pride followed by a great fall) and exploited as an exploration of the relations between (Athenian) Greek and Persian other. But in this essay I propose to set…
Horace
This chapter argues that Horace's discussion of revision is satirical and derives mirth from the speakers who insist on it, and then, more seriously, that in Augustan Rome there were real reasons for poets to feel that revising was a shameful process akin to censorship. Horace thus seems both to mock the speakers who talk about revision and to offer a profound social diagnosis of its characteristic pathos.
Pliny the Younger
Pliny's concern with literary process reflects the development of revision into a mechanism for producing texts directed toward an anonymous public of readers whom he did not know. I understand the development of this mechanism in terms of Michael Warner's important theory of publics, originally articulated in 2002 to describe modern discursive practices but, I feel, clearly applicable to Pliny's writing as well. I think Pliny innovates on this s…
Cicero
Cicero conceived literature as a social undertaking in which texts not only expressed the preferences of communities engaged in their revision, but by being the topic of discussion could also be used as the basis for community formation. I believe that this led Cicero to articulate a surprising view on literary finish: he valued the incomplete over the complete precisely because what was not yet perfect could be discussed and therefore serve as t…
Work in ProgressLiterary Revision as Social Performance in Ancient Rome
This book offers an in-depth study of the role of literary revision in the compositional practices and strategies of self-representation among Roman authors at the end of the republic and the beginning of the principate. It focuses on Cicero, Horace, Quintilian, Martial, and Pliny the Younger, but also offers discussions of earlier Greek material, including Isocrates, Plato, and Hellenistic poetry. The book argues that revision made textuality in…
Out of Athens
168 PHOENIX but the greater roles of magistrates and the codification of their practices that transform the Roman legal process. Beyond the Twelve tables, the responsa of early jurists, the interpretations of pontifices, the actiones formulated by praetors, and finally the formulary system, which all found their way into Roman law, all complicated questions of law beyond the comprehension of lay people. England after the Norman invasion, with the…
Verres and the Scene of Rewriting
This essay explores the fictionality of the second actio of Cicero's prosecution of Verres in the light of Verres' history of tampering with documents. It argues that both Verres' altered tabulae and Cicero's fictional speech summon communal memory by displaying an absence—with the crucial difference that Verres' alterations to the public record are culpable, while Cicero's are not. Cette étude se penche sur l'aspect fictif de la seconde action c…
Modern Literary Theory and Ancient Texts
386 PHOENIX inscriptions. So,while thisbook isdifferent in itsfocusand isnot nearlyas inclusiveas an old standbylikeBuck, the readingsand bibliographyforthe textsitoffersaremore up-to-date and come with fine translations and notes; itwill be a very welcome addition to every Greek Dialects course. The selections of literary texts, more thanthirty, arearranged partly bygenre (epic,Ionic elegyand iambus, Aeolic monody,Doric chorus,lyric monody) and …
Aeschylus terrorist
Writing and terror
On Text-Critical Melancholy
This essay discusses a lost chapter in the history of the textual criticism of Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis: G. Hermann's 1847 De Interpolationibus Euripideae Iphigeniae in Aulide. I argue that this work, like all textual criticisms in classics, aims to represent not the image of a lost original, but rather a singular image of textual history and formal change. This has consequences for the reading of critical texts in general, which do not aim …
Female Acts in Greek Tragedy
Female Acts in Greek Tragedy
Dissonance
In the four centuries leading up to the death of Euripides in 406 BCE, Greek singers, poets, and theorists delved deep into auditory experience. They charted its capacity to develop topologies distinct from those of the other senses; contemplated its use as a communicator of information; calculated its power to express and cause extreme emotion. They made sound too, artfully and self-consciously creating songs and poems that revelled in sonorousn…
Resonance
Scholars tend to agree that Aeschylus' choice of material for the Persae was overdetermined: the battle at Salamis and its lead-up constituted a moment of the highest trauma and pride for the Athenian demos , one that could be accommodated to a well-known narrative framework (that of great pride followed by a great fall) and exploited as an exploration of the relations between (Athenian) Greek and Persian other. But in this essay I propose to set…
Work in ProgressLiterary Revision as Social Performance in Ancient Rome
This book offers an in-depth study of the role of literary revision in the compositional practices and strategies of self-representation among Roman authors at the end of the republic and the beginning of the principate. It focuses on Cicero, Horace, Quintilian, Martial, and Pliny the Younger, but also offers discussions of earlier Greek material, including Isocrates, Plato, and Hellenistic poetry. The book argues that revision made textuality in…
Female Acts in Greek Tragedy
Aeschylus terrorist
Writing and terror
On Text-Critical Melancholy
This essay discusses a lost chapter in the history of the textual criticism of Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis: G. Hermann's 1847 De Interpolationibus Euripideae Iphigeniae in Aulide. I argue that this work, like all textual criticisms in classics, aims to represent not the image of a lost original, but rather a singular image of textual history and formal change. This has consequences for the reading of critical texts in general, which do not aim …
Modern Literary Theory and Ancient Texts
386 PHOENIX inscriptions. So,while thisbook isdifferent in itsfocusand isnot nearlyas inclusiveas an old standbylikeBuck, the readingsand bibliographyforthe textsitoffersaremore up-to-date and come with fine translations and notes; itwill be a very welcome addition to every Greek Dialects course. The selections of literary texts, more thanthirty, arearranged partly bygenre (epic,Ionic elegyand iambus, Aeolic monody,Doric chorus,lyric monody) and …
Verres and the Scene of Rewriting
This essay explores the fictionality of the second actio of Cicero's prosecution of Verres in the light of Verres' history of tampering with documents. It argues that both Verres' altered tabulae and Cicero's fictional speech summon communal memory by displaying an absence—with the crucial difference that Verres' alterations to the public record are culpable, while Cicero's are not. Cette étude se penche sur l'aspect fictif de la seconde action c…
Horace
This chapter argues that Horace's discussion of revision is satirical and derives mirth from the speakers who insist on it, and then, more seriously, that in Augustan Rome there were real reasons for poets to feel that revising was a shameful process akin to censorship. Horace thus seems both to mock the speakers who talk about revision and to offer a profound social diagnosis of its characteristic pathos.
Pliny the Younger
Pliny's concern with literary process reflects the development of revision into a mechanism for producing texts directed toward an anonymous public of readers whom he did not know. I understand the development of this mechanism in terms of Michael Warner's important theory of publics, originally articulated in 2002 to describe modern discursive practices but, I feel, clearly applicable to Pliny's writing as well. I think Pliny innovates on this s…
Cicero
Cicero conceived literature as a social undertaking in which texts not only expressed the preferences of communities engaged in their revision, but by being the topic of discussion could also be used as the basis for community formation. I believe that this led Cicero to articulate a surprising view on literary finish: he valued the incomplete over the complete precisely because what was not yet perfect could be discussed and therefore serve as t…
Work in ProgressLiterary Revision as Social Performance in Ancient Rome
This book offers an in-depth study of the role of literary revision in the compositional practices and strategies of self-representation among Roman authors at the end of the republic and the beginning of the principate. It focuses on Cicero, Horace, Quintilian, Martial, and Pliny the Younger, but also offers discussions of earlier Greek material, including Isocrates, Plato, and Hellenistic poetry. The book argues that revision made textuality in…
Out of Athens
168 PHOENIX but the greater roles of magistrates and the codification of their practices that transform the Roman legal process. Beyond the Twelve tables, the responsa of early jurists, the interpretations of pontifices, the actiones formulated by praetors, and finally the formulary system, which all found their way into Roman law, all complicated questions of law beyond the comprehension of lay people. England after the Norman invasion, with the…
Resonance
Scholars tend to agree that Aeschylus' choice of material for the Persae was overdetermined: the battle at Salamis and its lead-up constituted a moment of the highest trauma and pride for the Athenian demos , one that could be accommodated to a well-known narrative framework (that of great pride followed by a great fall) and exploited as an exploration of the relations between (Athenian) Greek and Persian other. But in this essay I propose to set…
Philology and Greek Literature
This essay provides an overview of the recent revival of interest in philology (a discipline in which both textual criticism and interpretation are at home). Although Greek and Latin have long been central to philological practice, this has changed, and a new renaissance in philology is emerging in the modern languages and comparative literature. Nonetheless, it is clear that this new, global, and comparative philology owes much to Greek philolog…
David Melnick’s Men in Aïda
This article reads Men in Ai&x0308;da , David Melnick’s ‘Homophonic Translation’ of Iliad 1–3, as the product of a poetic technique cognate with both the philological practice of etymology (though refracted through a heterodox prism) and the twentieth-century tradition of sound poetry. In Men in Ai&x0308;da we encounter a subversive re-telling of the Iliad as ‘gay utopia’ (in the words of one of the poem’s commentators) combined with an invocatio…
Dissonance
In the four centuries leading up to the death of Euripides in 406 BCE, Greek singers, poets, and theorists delved deep into auditory experience. They charted its capacity to develop topologies distinct from those of the other senses; contemplated its use as a communicator of information; calculated its power to express and cause extreme emotion. They made sound too, artfully and self-consciously creating songs and poems that revelled in sonorousn…
Orpheus, Euridice, and the classical tradition in Christian Bök’s Xenotext
Christian Bök’s Xenotext project aims to encode a poem (‘Orpheus’) into the genome of an extremophile bacterium in such a way that the bacterium will produce another poem (‘Euridice’) in response. This project, which Bök has been working on for at least a decade, saw a major milestone in 2015 with the publication of Xenotext One (Coach House Books), a collection of poems and theoretical statements related to the central project. Xenotext One cont…
The Origins of Music Theory in the Age of Plato
Listening is a social process. Even apparently trivial acts of listening are expert performances of acquired cognitive and bodily habits. Contemporary scholars acknowledge this fact with the notion that there are "auditory cultures." In the fourth century BCE, Greek philosophers recognized a similar phenomenon in music, which they treated as a privileged site for the cultural manufacture of sensory capabilities, and proof that in a traditional cu…
Senses of the Empire
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