Genius to Improve an Invention: Literary Transitions - Hardcover

Boitani, Piero

9780268029500: Genius to Improve an Invention: Literary Transitions

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ISBN 10: 0268029504 ISBN 13: 9780268029500

Verlag: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002

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The Genius to Improve an Invention derives its title from John Dryden’s phrase for the British tendency to take up literary masterpieces from the past and "perfect" them. Distinguished literary scholar Piero Boitani adopts Dryden’s notion as a framework for exploring ways in which classical and medieval texts, scenes, and themes have been rewritten by modern authors.

Boitani focuses on a concept of literary transition that takes into account both T.S. Eliot’s idea of "tradition and individual talent" and Harold Bloom’s "anxiety of influence." In five elegant essays he examines a wide range of authors and texts, including Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Shakespeare, Chaucer, Voltaire, Goethe, Sartre, Dante, and Keats. Appearing for the first time in an English translation, The Genius to Improve an Invention will appeal to anyone interested in the Western literary tradition.

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Piero Boitani is professor of comparative literature at the University of Rome, “La Sapienza.” He is the founding president of the European Society for English Studies and a fellow of the British Academy. In 2002, he was awarded the Feltrinelli Prize for Literary Criticism―Italy’s most prestigious literary award. Boitani is the author of numerous books, including The Shadow of Ulysses and The Bible and Its Rewritings.

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Verlag: University of Notre Dame Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN 10: 0268029504
ISBN 13: 9780268029500
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Piero Boitani

Verlag: University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, Ind., 2002

ISBN 10: 0268029504 ISBN 13: 9780268029500

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. xiv, 151 pages. Ex-library, with library markings limited to tape residue at the foot of the spine and adjacent portions of the front and rear boards, a property stamp at the top edge of the textblock, a property stamp (lined out) at the upper fore-corner of the front pastedown, a cancellation stamp at the front free endpaper, minor markings in pencil to the copyright page and to the following page, and a barcode label (lined out) and a cancellation stamp at the rear pastedown. The publisher's binding is sturdy, bumping to the foot of the spine; the contents are as new. 360 grams. Artikel-Nr. 014454

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