Genius to Improve an Invention: Literary Transitions - Softcover

Boitani, Piero

 
9780268029517: Genius to Improve an Invention: Literary Transitions
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0268029512 ISBN 13: 9780268029517
Verlag: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

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 
0268029512
ISBN 13 
9780268029517
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Anzahl der Seiten
168
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