Charles Martindale
Biographic Data
| ID | 3604696 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles Martindale |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles |
| FAMILY NAME | Martindale |
| SIGNATURE | MARTINDALE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bristol |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 165 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 7 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Walter Pater and the Beginnings of English Studies
Walter Pater's significance for the institutionalization of English studies at British universities in the nineteenth century is often overlooked. Addressing the importance of his volume Appreciations (1889) in placing English literature in both a national and an international context, this book demonstrates the indebtedness of the English essay to the French tradition and brings together the classic, the Romantic, the English and the European. W…
Green Politics: The Eclogues
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The Cambridge Companion to Virgil
The poet Virgil remains the most significant and influential figure in Latin literature, and this expanded and updated Companion covers his life, work, and reception from antiquity to the present. The Aeneid, the Eclogues, the Georgics, and the Appendix Vergiliana are all discussed, as are art, history, politics, and philosophy; Virgil's literary style is carefully explored along with poetic traditions before and since, and chapters engage with h…
Mending the Well-Wrought Urn
Mending the Well-Wrought Urn Charles Martindale One form my teenage rebellion took was to embrace a version of aestheticism (not that I knew the word then). I devoured books like Walter Pater's Renaissance, or the brothers Goncourt on French rococo painting, and wrote an essay on the diaphanous beauties of Giambattista Tiepolo for my somewhat bemused schoolmaster. I thought then, as I think now, that historicist approaches too often neglect the l…
Pater the Classicist: Classical Scholarship, Reception, and Aestheticism
Pater the Classicist is the first book to address in detail Walter Pater's important contribution to the study of classical antiquity. Widely considered our greatest aesthetic critic and now best known as a precursor to modernist writers and post-modernist thinkers of the twentieth century, Pater was also a classicist by profession who taught at the University of Oxford. He wrote extensively about Greek art and philosophy, but also authored an in…
Afterword: Greek texts and the early modern stage
This article constitutes a response to this special issue of Classical Receptions Journal and especially to its introduction, which makes a strong case for the importance of Greek texts in the Early Modern period. It accepts the proposition that there was a revival, promoted by Erasmus, of scholarly interest in Greek imaginative literature, in the original, in Latin translation, and in various vernaculars. But it also asks how much real differenc…
Response to Forum Debate
Redeeming the Text, despite its occasionally vatic tones, was designed to provoke, and stimulate discussion, including disagreement, not to advance a set of dogmatic propositions, something signalled inter alia by some playful and deconstructive flourishes. So the Martindalian ‘mantra’ (which in fact adopted the formulation of one of my students at that time) — ‘meaning is always realized at the point of reception’ — appears in an interrogative f…
Reception -- a new humanism? Receptivity, pedagogy, the transhistorical
Redeeming the Text: Latin Poetry and the Hermeneutics of Reception (hereafter RTT), whose twentieth anniversary falls in 2013, was designed in the main as a theoretical intervention. It mounted an argument — against what are often, if not wholly satisfactorily, termed ‘positivistic’ modes of enquiry — about how classical texts mean and how they may most profitably be interpreted, an argument that was at first fiercely resisted, though later, with…
Romans and Romantics
This book provides discussion of the relationship between Romanticism and Roman antiquity. Encompassing literature, music, sculpture, film, history, politics, and scholarship, it assesses the influence that ancient Roman culture has had upon Romanticism, and that Romanticism has had upon the understanding of the ancient Romans up to the present day. Part One takes a selection of general themes and motifs — republicanism, time, originality, and lo…
Leaving Athens: Classics for a New Century
Xage duBois' new collection of essays raises question of what classics as a discipline might become in twenty-first century (if, that is, it is to remain a separate dis cipline and not simply allow its objects of study to be ab sorbed into other disciplines, for example, comparative literature).* One way of putting her answer would be to say that classicists should desert for multi-ethnic, hybrid Alexandria, which represents, in words of Daniel S…
Shakespeare and the Classics
Dryden's Ovid: Aesthetic Translation and the Idea of the Classic
Classics and the Uses of Reception
The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire
Satire as a distinct genre of writing was first developed by the Romans in the second century BCE. Regarded by them as uniquely 'their own', satire held a special place in the Roman imagination as the one genre that could address the problems of city life from the perspective of a 'real Roman'. In this Cambridge Companion an international team of scholars provides a stimulating introduction to Roman satire's core practitioners and practices, plac…
The RAE: Past its sell-by date
The Cambridge Companion to Virgil
The Cambridge Companion to Virgil
Virgil became a school author in his own lifetime and the centre of the Western canon for the next 1800 years, exerting a major influence on European literature, art, and politics. This Companion is designed as an indispensable guide for anyone seeking a fuller understanding of an author critical to so many disciplines. It consists of essays by seventeen scholars from Britain, the USA, Ireland and Italy which offer a range of different perspectiv…
Canon Fodder
Redeeming the text: Latin poetry and the hermeneutics of reception
This book applies some of the procedures of modern critical theory to the interpretation of Latin poetry. The author argues for an approach that sees the meaning of a text as always and necessarily involved in the process of 'reception, ' that is the way it has been read and interpreted from the time of its composition down to the present day. A study of its reception-history facilitates novel and more profitable ways of reading. He illustrates h…
Tradition and modernity
with postscript, 1985) and continued in Whose Justice? Which Rationality? (hereafter W/) (1988). I shall not attempt to summarize, in its entirety, the argument of the new book. In his introduction Maclntyre suggests convincing reasons why, in the sense in which these things are usually understood, such a summary could be undesirable and even impossible, a consequence of the nature of reception. Any contribution to discourse becomes an interventi…
Composing Culture: The Authority of an Electronic Text [and Comments and Reply]
Ovid Renewed: Ovidian Influences on Literature and Art from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century
List of plates Contributors Preface 1. Introduction Charles Martindale 2. Daedalus and Icarus (i) From Rome to the end of the Middle Ages Niall Rudd 3. Daedalus and Icarus (ii) From the Renaissance to the present day Niall Rudd 4. Ovid the Crusader C. W. Grocock 5. Chaucer and Ovid: a question of authority Helen Cooper 6. Lessons from the Great Clerk: Ovid and John Gower Bruce Harbert 7. Original fictions: metamorphoses in The Faerie Queene Colin…
Milton and Ovid
Church and Bomb
Redeeming the text: Latin poetry and the hermeneutics of reception
This book applies some of the procedures of modern critical theory to the interpretation of Latin poetry. The author argues for an approach that sees the meaning of a text as always and necessarily involved in the process of 'reception, ' that is the way it has been read and interpreted from the time of its composition down to the present day. A study of its reception-history facilitates novel and more profitable ways of reading. He illustrates h…
Reception -- a new humanism? Receptivity, pedagogy, the transhistorical
Redeeming the Text: Latin Poetry and the Hermeneutics of Reception (hereafter RTT), whose twentieth anniversary falls in 2013, was designed in the main as a theoretical intervention. It mounted an argument — against what are often, if not wholly satisfactorily, termed ‘positivistic’ modes of enquiry — about how classical texts mean and how they may most profitably be interpreted, an argument that was at first fiercely resisted, though later, with…
Composing Culture: The Authority of an Electronic Text [and Comments and Reply]
Leaving Athens: Classics for a New Century
Xage duBois' new collection of essays raises question of what classics as a discipline might become in twenty-first century (if, that is, it is to remain a separate dis cipline and not simply allow its objects of study to be ab sorbed into other disciplines, for example, comparative literature).* One way of putting her answer would be to say that classicists should desert for multi-ethnic, hybrid Alexandria, which represents, in words of Daniel S…
Pater the Classicist: Classical Scholarship, Reception, and Aestheticism
Pater the Classicist is the first book to address in detail Walter Pater's important contribution to the study of classical antiquity. Widely considered our greatest aesthetic critic and now best known as a precursor to modernist writers and post-modernist thinkers of the twentieth century, Pater was also a classicist by profession who taught at the University of Oxford. He wrote extensively about Greek art and philosophy, but also authored an in…
Church and Bomb
Milton and Ovid
Ovid Renewed: Ovidian Influences on Literature and Art from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century
List of plates Contributors Preface 1. Introduction Charles Martindale 2. Daedalus and Icarus (i) From Rome to the end of the Middle Ages Niall Rudd 3. Daedalus and Icarus (ii) From the Renaissance to the present day Niall Rudd 4. Ovid the Crusader C. W. Grocock 5. Chaucer and Ovid: a question of authority Helen Cooper 6. Lessons from the Great Clerk: Ovid and John Gower Bruce Harbert 7. Original fictions: metamorphoses in The Faerie Queene Colin…
Composing Culture: The Authority of an Electronic Text [and Comments and Reply]
Tradition and modernity
with postscript, 1985) and continued in Whose Justice? Which Rationality? (hereafter W/) (1988). I shall not attempt to summarize, in its entirety, the argument of the new book. In his introduction Maclntyre suggests convincing reasons why, in the sense in which these things are usually understood, such a summary could be undesirable and even impossible, a consequence of the nature of reception. Any contribution to discourse becomes an interventi…
Redeeming the text: Latin poetry and the hermeneutics of reception
This book applies some of the procedures of modern critical theory to the interpretation of Latin poetry. The author argues for an approach that sees the meaning of a text as always and necessarily involved in the process of 'reception, ' that is the way it has been read and interpreted from the time of its composition down to the present day. A study of its reception-history facilitates novel and more profitable ways of reading. He illustrates h…
Canon Fodder
The Cambridge Companion to Virgil
Virgil became a school author in his own lifetime and the centre of the Western canon for the next 1800 years, exerting a major influence on European literature, art, and politics. This Companion is designed as an indispensable guide for anyone seeking a fuller understanding of an author critical to so many disciplines. It consists of essays by seventeen scholars from Britain, the USA, Ireland and Italy which offer a range of different perspectiv…
The Cambridge Companion to Virgil
The RAE: Past its sell-by date
The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire
Satire as a distinct genre of writing was first developed by the Romans in the second century BCE. Regarded by them as uniquely 'their own', satire held a special place in the Roman imagination as the one genre that could address the problems of city life from the perspective of a 'real Roman'. In this Cambridge Companion an international team of scholars provides a stimulating introduction to Roman satire's core practitioners and practices, plac…
Dryden's Ovid: Aesthetic Translation and the Idea of the Classic
Classics and the Uses of Reception
Shakespeare and the Classics
Leaving Athens: Classics for a New Century
Xage duBois' new collection of essays raises question of what classics as a discipline might become in twenty-first century (if, that is, it is to remain a separate dis cipline and not simply allow its objects of study to be ab sorbed into other disciplines, for example, comparative literature).* One way of putting her answer would be to say that classicists should desert for multi-ethnic, hybrid Alexandria, which represents, in words of Daniel S…
Romans and Romantics
This book provides discussion of the relationship between Romanticism and Roman antiquity. Encompassing literature, music, sculpture, film, history, politics, and scholarship, it assesses the influence that ancient Roman culture has had upon Romanticism, and that Romanticism has had upon the understanding of the ancient Romans up to the present day. Part One takes a selection of general themes and motifs — republicanism, time, originality, and lo…
Response to Forum Debate
Redeeming the Text, despite its occasionally vatic tones, was designed to provoke, and stimulate discussion, including disagreement, not to advance a set of dogmatic propositions, something signalled inter alia by some playful and deconstructive flourishes. So the Martindalian ‘mantra’ (which in fact adopted the formulation of one of my students at that time) — ‘meaning is always realized at the point of reception’ — appears in an interrogative f…
Reception -- a new humanism? Receptivity, pedagogy, the transhistorical
Redeeming the Text: Latin Poetry and the Hermeneutics of Reception (hereafter RTT), whose twentieth anniversary falls in 2013, was designed in the main as a theoretical intervention. It mounted an argument — against what are often, if not wholly satisfactorily, termed ‘positivistic’ modes of enquiry — about how classical texts mean and how they may most profitably be interpreted, an argument that was at first fiercely resisted, though later, with…
Afterword: Greek texts and the early modern stage
This article constitutes a response to this special issue of Classical Receptions Journal and especially to its introduction, which makes a strong case for the importance of Greek texts in the Early Modern period. It accepts the proposition that there was a revival, promoted by Erasmus, of scholarly interest in Greek imaginative literature, in the original, in Latin translation, and in various vernaculars. But it also asks how much real differenc…
Mending the Well-Wrought Urn
Mending the Well-Wrought Urn Charles Martindale One form my teenage rebellion took was to embrace a version of aestheticism (not that I knew the word then). I devoured books like Walter Pater's Renaissance, or the brothers Goncourt on French rococo painting, and wrote an essay on the diaphanous beauties of Giambattista Tiepolo for my somewhat bemused schoolmaster. I thought then, as I think now, that historicist approaches too often neglect the l…
Pater the Classicist: Classical Scholarship, Reception, and Aestheticism
Pater the Classicist is the first book to address in detail Walter Pater's important contribution to the study of classical antiquity. Widely considered our greatest aesthetic critic and now best known as a precursor to modernist writers and post-modernist thinkers of the twentieth century, Pater was also a classicist by profession who taught at the University of Oxford. He wrote extensively about Greek art and philosophy, but also authored an in…
Green Politics: The Eclogues
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
The Cambridge Companion to Virgil
The poet Virgil remains the most significant and influential figure in Latin literature, and this expanded and updated Companion covers his life, work, and reception from antiquity to the present. The Aeneid, the Eclogues, the Georgics, and the Appendix Vergiliana are all discussed, as are art, history, politics, and philosophy; Virgil's literary style is carefully explored along with poetic traditions before and since, and chapters engage with h…
Walter Pater and the Beginnings of English Studies
Walter Pater's significance for the institutionalization of English studies at British universities in the nineteenth century is often overlooked. Addressing the importance of his volume Appreciations (1889) in placing English literature in both a national and an international context, this book demonstrates the indebtedness of the English essay to the French tradition and brings together the classic, the Romantic, the English and the European. W…
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