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Rationalist Criticism of Greek Tragedy - The Nature, History, and Influence of a Critical Revolution (Paperback)
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Rationalist Criticism of Greek Tragedy - The Nature, History, and Influence of a Critical Revolution (Paperback)
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Literary critical revolutions-radical shifts in interpretation and
evaluation of literary works and their authors-are among the most
interesting of cultural phenomena. In order to gain greater
understanding of the mechanisms of all critical revolutions,
Rationalist Criticism in Greek Tragedy examines the late
nineteenth-century 'rehabilitation' of Euripides. Some of the
factors which contributed to the Euripidean revolution are well
known, but one which is not-one which has been generally forgotten,
when it has not actually been denied-is the role of Rationalist
Criticism. Rationalist Criticism, founded and dominated by infamous
Cambridge University Classicist and English scholar A. W. Verrall,
was generally deprecated by mainstream classicists when it first
appeared, and those who happen to come upon it today tend to treat
it dismissively-a tendency the great classicist Eduard Fraenkel
thought 'should be strongly resisted.' The influence of Rationalist
Criticism-inside and outside of classical studies-has been much
greater than has been generally supposed. James E. Ford makes the
case for the larger significance of what Verrall and the
Rationalist Critics were doing within the history not just of
Euripidean criticism but of literary studies generally. Ford reads
the rationalists on their own terms, drawing on the disciplines of
the history of scholarship and the history and theory of literary
criticism making this study unique. It should appeal to anyone
interested in intellectual history, especially instances of
significant intellectual changes (a la Kuhnian revolutions), and,
especially, changes in the interpretation and evaluation of authors
and their works. The work should be of specific interest to
classicists, academic historians, and critical theorists.
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