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Rediscovering E. R. Dodds: Scholarship, Education, Poetry, and the Paranormal de Christopher Stray

Rediscovering E. R. Dodds: Scholarship, Education, Poetry, and the Paranormal

Editat de Christopher Stray, Christopher Pelling, Stephen Harrison
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 3 oct 2019

Adresăm acest volum studenților la litere clasice, cercetătorilor în istoria ideilor și istoricilor culturii britanice din secolul XX, oferindu-le o analiză multidimensională a unei personalități care a definit studiul elenismului modern. Rediscovering E. R. Dodds reprezintă prima evaluare cuprinzătoare a vieții și operei lui Eric Robertson Dodds, autorul fundamentalei lucrări „The Greeks and the Irrational”. Remarcăm în acest volum efortul editorilor de a depăși imaginea strict academică a lui Dodds, dezvăluind un profil complex: poetul cu legături strânse în cercurile literare ale lui Auden și MacNeice, dar și reformatorul implicat în reconstrucția sistemului educațional german după al Doilea Război Mondial.

Structura narativă a cărții îmbină rigoarea academică a eseurilor critice cu latura intimă a memoriilor semnate de apropiați precum Donald Russell. Descoperim aici un „outsider” care a adus o perspectivă proaspătă în mediul introspectiv al universității Oxford, navigând între raționalismul academic și interesul profund pentru paranormal. Cititorii familiarizați cu Gilbert Murray Reassessed vor aprecia modul în care acest volum continuă tradiția recuperării marilor figuri ale elenismului britanic, păstrând aceleași standarde înalte de documentare. Editorul Christopher Stray, cunoscut pentru lucrări precum Classics in Britain sau studiul lexical Liddell and Scott, își folosește expertiza pentru a ancora parcursul lui Dodds în contextul evoluției instituționale a studiilor clasice. Această ediție aduce ca element de noutate o bibliografie completă a scrierilor lui Dodds, devenind un instrument de lucru esențial pentru orice bibliotecă de specialitate.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198777366
ISBN-10: 0198777361
Pagini: 368
Ilustrații: 5 black-and-white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 146 x 222 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

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Recomandăm această carte oricărui cititor pasionat de istoria intelectuală a secolului XX. Prin parcurgerea acestui volum, veți înțelege cum un specialist în tragedie greacă a putut influența cultura literară britanică și cercetarea parapsihologică. Este un câștig major pentru cei care doresc să descopere omul din spatele erudiției, beneficiind totodată de o bibliografie exhaustivă, utilă în cercetările ulterioare asupra antichității și a recepției sale moderne.

Despre autor

Christopher Stray este Honorary Research Fellow în cadrul Departamentului de Studii Clasice de la Universitatea din Wales, Swansea. Expertiza sa se concentrează pe istoria socială și instituțională a studiilor clasice, fiind o voce autoritară în documentarea evoluției academice britanice. Printre lucrările sale de referință se numără Classics in Britain și coordonarea volumelor dedicate marilor dicționare sau personalități ale domeniului. În acest volum, Stray colaborează cu Christopher Pelling și Stephen Harrison pentru a oferi o viziune echilibrată asupra moștenirii lăsate de E. R. Dodds.

Descriere

Rediscovering E. R. Dodds offers the first comprehensive assessment of a remarkable classical scholar, who was also a poet with extensive links to twentieth-century English and Irish literary culture, the friend of Auden and MacNeice. Dodds was born in Northern Ireland, but made his name as Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford from 1936 to 1960, succeeding Gilbert Murray. Before this he taught at Reading and Birmingham, was active in the Association of University Teachers, or AUT (of which he became president), and brought an outsider's perspective to the comfortable and introspective world of Oxford. His famous book The Greeks and the Irrational (1951) remains one of the most distinguished and visionary works of scholarship of its time, though much less well-known is his long and influential involvement with psychic research and his work for the reconstruction of German education after the Second World War. The contributions to this volume seek to shed light on these less explored areas of Dodds' life and his significance as perhaps the last classicist to play a significant role in British literary culture, as well as examining his work across different areas of scholarship, notably Greek tragedy. A group of memoirs - one by his pupil and former literary executor, Donald Russell, and three by younger friends who knew, visited, and looked after Dodds in his last years - complement this portrait of the influential scholar and poet, offering a glimpse of the man behind the legacy.

Recenzii

Rediscovering E.R. Dodds is an invitation to consider not only Dodds the enshrined scholar, but also Dodds the human, himself once a nobody, who lived in trying times and had to overcome many hurdles. These hurdles and his beginner's luck, panache and intellectual strategies are retraced in Stray and Pelling's first chapter.
This collection of essays deserves plaudits for latitude befitting the catholicity of E.R. Dodd's concerns and achievements ... The essays in Rediscovering Dodds, exploring and celebrating his work, are a necessary reminder of this most multi-faceted of classicists.
The essays in Rediscovering Dodds, exploring and celebrating his work, are a necessary reminder of this most multi-faceted of classicists.
E. R. Dodds (1893-1979) is one of the most interesting and unusual figures of twentieth-century classical scholarship... As Stray and Pelling explain in the introduction, this volume aims both to revisit Dodds's scholarship and to show some of the ways in which the seemingly disparate, contradictory elements of his life come together into a more or less coherent unity... The volume succeeds admirably in fulfilling these two objectives.
[The chapters] provide a wonderful contextualization, a primer for understanding Dodds, his lineage, context of his person, works and writings, and unexpected characteristics and expertise. Overarching takeaways from Dodds' work was to other timeframes, his contemporary world, our own world and his impact on psychology, anthropology, telepathy, tragedy, politics, the mystical and metaphysical. E.R. Dodds was a person of high-level complexities.
This book should be on the shelf of everyone who is interested in the various facets of Dodds' career. His bibliography, stretching from 1916 unto 1977, shows him to have been a very concentrated and busy man. All his reviews were perceptive, despite their narrow foci. Humane scholar that he was, E.R. Dodds will be introduced to a new generation of specialist readers in these pages, and he is well worth remembering.
...a book which contains not a few chapters of compelling interest...A welcome feature is a complete bibliography of Dodd's writings. The book is produced to a high standard.

Notă biografică

Christopher Stray is Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Classics, Ancient History, and Egyptology at Swansea University, and Associate Fellow at the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London. He has held visiting positions at Wolfson College, Cambridge; the Beinecke Library, Yale University; and at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He works on the history and sociology of classical teaching and learning at school and university level, and has also published on examinations, institutional slang, and textbooks. He contributed three chapters to The History of Oxford University Press (OUP, 2013), and is currently working on contributions to a forthcoming history of Trinity College, Cambridge.Christopher Pelling is Emeritus Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Oxford. He occupied that chair from 2003 to 2015, and before that was McConnell Laing Fellow and Praelector in Classics at University College, Oxford, where he is now an Honorary Fellow. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales, and also served as the President of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies from 2006 to 2008 and President of the International Plutarch Society from 2008 to 2011. Among his books are Literary Texts and the Greek Historian (Routledge, 2000), Plutarch and History (The Classical Press of Wales, 2002), Twelve Voices from Greece and Rome: Ancient Ideas for Modern Times (with Maria Wyke; OUP, 2014), and Herodotus and the Question Why (University of Texas Press, 2019).Stephen Harrison is Professor of Latin Literature at the University of Oxford, Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and also visiting professor at the universities of Copenhagen and Trondheim. He has held other visiting appointments and fellowships at the universities of Bergen, Otago, Cape Town, Stanford, the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, and the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study. He has published extensively on Latin literature and its reception, including the following volumes: Generic Enrichment in Vergil and Horace (OUP, 2007), Living Classics: Greece and Rome in Contemporary Poetry in English (edited volume; OUP, 2009), and Louis MacNeice: The Classical Radio Plays (co-edited with Amanda Wrigley; OUP, 2013).