Classical Closure: Reading the End in Greek and Latin Literature

The study of closure has played a significant part in contemporary literary criticism and is implicated in many of its concerns, from psychological aspects of the search for an end in narrative to the order imposed upon a text by politics or culture. This collection is the first large- scale attempt to assess the implications of closure for the study of classical literature. Twelve new essays by an international group of scholars focus on endings...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069104452X
• ISBN13: 9780691044521
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.8" x 10.0"