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From a Sabine Jar - Reading Horace, Odes 1.9 (Paperback, New edition)
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From a Sabine Jar - Reading Horace, Odes 1.9 (Paperback, New edition)
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This book is a detailed study of a single poem -- Horace, "Odes 1.9
-- often called 'The Soracte Ode' after the mountain named in its
second line. Although more than seventy articles and parts of books
have been devoted to this twenty-four line poem since the beginning
of the last century, Lowell Edmunds is the first scholar to apply
developments in literary theory from outside the field of classics
to a discussion of the ode. Specifically, he uses Hans Robert
Jauss's essay on Baudelaire's "Spleen (II)" as a model for his
study.
According to Edmunds, attempts to answer aesthetic questions about
ancient lyric poems typically begin with philological or historical
facts -- which scholars present as new evidence, heretofore
undiscovered or misunderstood -- and proceed to an analysis built
on those facts. Edmunds argues that contemporary literary theory
provides a different way of reconciling the aestheic and historical
claims of a lyric poem, ancient or modern. He then takes a fresh
look at Horace's poem, employing Jauss's method of performing three
successive readings of the text: the first aesthetic or perceptual,
the second interpretive, and the third historicist.
In this hermeneutic Jaussian approach, Edmunds shows, the unity of
the poem appears in the process of reading rather than, as in a
philological approach, in the analysis of it. Moreover, he labels
an emphasis on the act of reading itself, distinct from analysis,
as the main difference between philological and hermeneutical ways
of understanding a poem. Focusing on this contrast, he surveys the
history of the ode's reception and scholarly interpretation. In the
final chapter, he briefly considers deconstruction as an
alternative critical method. Assessing the rival claims of
hermeneutics, deconstruction, and philology as interpretive tools,
Edmunds concludes by favoring hermeneutics.
Originally published in 1992.
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