Literary History without Literature
Reading Practices in the Ancient World
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4981427 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Simon Goldhill (0000-0002-1946-4839, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 57 |
| Publication date | 1999-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | SubStance (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0049-2426 • E-ISSN: 1527-2095 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3685420 |
| OpenAlex | W2047162232 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 20 |
ture as a category is paralleled by the fall of Rhetoric as the privileged discipline of the liberal arts, and, with a beguilingly neat symmetry, as twentieth-century modernism has challenged the category literature, so rhetoric has regained its place as a master discourse in the modern academy.2 If we accept this narrative-at least in such broad terms-it leaves the classicist with something of a problem, however. A literary history that did not recognize that Homer is first and Vergil second (and closer to first than third, as Quintilian put it), would be a strangely truncated affair. While Terry Eagleton can write an account of the ideology of aesthetics that finds its fons et origo in the eighteenth century-3no place even for Plato-could such an account be satisfactory for what is called literature, with its constant reappropriation of the writing of the pastwhen, indeed, classics provide the very classes of classification for so much of Western literate culture? It would be a naive nominalism that asserted
Aesthetics · Art · History of literature · Ideology · Linguistics · Literature · Modernism (music · Narrative · Politics · Reading (process · Rhetoric · The arts · Visual arts · Historical and Literary Studies · History · Law · Literature: history, themes, analysis · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy
Greek
The Union and Divorce of Classical Philology and Theology
Whose Handmaiden? ‘Hellenisation’ between Philology and Theology
Virgil, Creator of the World
Spectacles of Truth in Classical Greek Philosophy
Classical Philology and Theology
Constructing Literature in the Roman Republic
The Upright Man
The Reader and the Resurrection in Prudentius
The Decline of Poetry in the Fourth-Century West
Books And Readers In Ancient Greece And Rome
A history of education in antiquity.
The Culture of Print
Books and readers in the Greek world
Oral Tradition and Written Record in Classical Athens
Keywords (Routledge Revivals)
The Ancient Quarrel Between Poetry and Philosophy
Making Men
A Study of Daphnis and Chloe
The Literate Revolution in Greece and its Cultural Consequences
The Stoics on Ambiguity
Literacy and Paideia in Ancient Greece
Greece in the Making 1200-479 BC
Scribes and Scholars
The Ideology of the Aesthetic
Pausanias
Books and Readers in the Early Church
A Poetics of Transformation
The Blessings of Pilgrimage
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.45 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2020 (17) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |