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A Commentary on Quintus of Smyrna, Posthomerica 13

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A Commentary on Quintus of Smyrna, Posthomerica 13

By: Renker, Stephan

The Posthomerica by Quintus of Smyrna, a Greek epic in fourteen books from the 3rd century AD, recounts the story of the Trojan War by covering the events between Hector?s burial and the departure of the Greeks after the destruction of the city. In book 13, we read about the sack of Troy, including famous episodes such as the death of Priam and Astyanax, the enslavement of Andromache, the escape of Aeneas, and the rape of Cassandra.0Stephan Renker offers the first full-scale commentary on Posthomerica 13. He introduces each episode with a discussion of the relevant literary tradition and Quintus' potential models. The following line-by-line commentary yields insights into aspects of language, literary technique, realia, and the main issues of interpretation. Thus, the reader is provided with an important tool for further investigations into this fascinating, yet understudied piece of Imperial Greek poetry.

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Realist Poetics in American Culture, 1866-1900

By: Elizabeth Renker

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Realist Poetics in American Culture, 1866-1900

By: Elizabeth Renker

The terms 'poetry' and 'realism' have a complex and often oppositional relationship in American literary histories of the postbellum period. The core narrative holds that 'realism', the major literary 'movement' of the era, developed apace in prose fiction, while poetry, stuck in a hopelessly idealist late-Romantic mode, languished and stagnated. Poetry is almost entirely absent from scholarship on American literary realism except as the emblem of realism's opposite: a desiccated genteel 'twilight of the poets.' Realist Poetics in American Culture, 1866-1900 refutes the familiar narrative of postbellum poetics as a scene of failure, and it recovers the active and variegated practices of a diverse array of realist poets across print culture. The triumph of the twilight tale in the twentieth century obscured, minimized, and flattened the many poetic discourses of the age, including but not limited to a significant body of realist poems currently missing from US literary histories. Excavating an extensive archive of realist poems, the volume offers a significant revision to the genre-exclusive story of realism and, by extension, to the very foundations of postbellum American literary history dating back to the earliest stages of the discipline.

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A Commentary on Quintus of Smyrna, Posthomerica 13

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A Commentary on Quintus of Smyrna, Posthomerica 13

A Commentary on Quintus of Smyrna, Posthomerica 13

Realist Poetics in American Culture, 1866-1900

Realist Poetics in American Culture, 1866-1900

A Commentary on Quintus of Smyrna, Posthomerica 13

A Commentary on Quintus of Smyrna, Posthomerica 13

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