Secret of the Muses Retold: Classical Influences on Italian Authors of the Twentieth Century

by John T. Kirby

Book Overview

Precious repositories of ancient wisdom? Musty relics of outmoded culture? Timeless paragons of artistic achievement? Hegemonic tools of intellectual repression? Just what are the classics, anyway, and why do (or should) we still pay so much attention to them? What is the literary canon? What is myth, and how do we use it?

These are some of the questions that gave rise to John Kirby's Secret of the Muses Retold. This new study of works...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226437485
• ISBN13: 9780226437484
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"