A new book by Professor Stephen Halliwell, Professor of Greek and Head of the School of Classics, is published by Oxford University Press on 1 March 2012. Between Ecstasy and Truth: Interpretations of Greek Poetics from Homerto Longinus offers challenging readings of a series of major texts in ancient Greek poetic theory and criticism, a field in which Professor Halliwell has been an internationally leading figure for many years. Making numerous links between Greek ideas and the later history of poetics, the book examines the role of emotion, ethics, imagination, and knowledge in the various ways in which the Greeks understood the importance of poetry in their culture. Professor Halliwell's last two monographs, The Aesthetics of Mimesis: Ancient Texts and Modern Problems (Princeton, 2002) and Greek Laughter: a Study of CulturalPsychology from Homer to Early Christianity (Cambridge, 2008), both won international prizes.
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Monday, 6 February 2012
Between Ecstasy and Truth
A new book by Professor Stephen Halliwell, Professor of Greek and Head of the School of Classics, is published by Oxford University Press on 1 March 2012. Between Ecstasy and Truth: Interpretations of Greek Poetics from Homerto Longinus offers challenging readings of a series of major texts in ancient Greek poetic theory and criticism, a field in which Professor Halliwell has been an internationally leading figure for many years. Making numerous links between Greek ideas and the later history of poetics, the book examines the role of emotion, ethics, imagination, and knowledge in the various ways in which the Greeks understood the importance of poetry in their culture. Professor Halliwell's last two monographs, The Aesthetics of Mimesis: Ancient Texts and Modern Problems (Princeton, 2002) and Greek Laughter: a Study of CulturalPsychology from Homer to Early Christianity (Cambridge, 2008), both won international prizes. 
Thursday, 28 July 2011
After the Dresden Bombing
A new book by Professor Anne Fuchs of the School of Modern Languages, After the Dresden Bombing, addresses the long aftermath of the bombing of Dresden during World War II in the collective and cultural imagination from 1945 to the present. The book offers the first interdisciplinary study of why and how the destruction of Dresden has entered the global canon of a handful of historical moments that have been turned into abiding emblems of the violence of 20th century history. Pursuing a cultural-historical line of investigation, Fuchs traces forensically how a particular narrative about this event was circulated in 1945, and how it was then relayed, remediated and contested in the following decades across a wide range of genres and media, including rubble photography, rubble film, fine art, post-war architectural debates, newspaper coverage, fiction and poetry. By analysing the generation, transmission and transformation of Dresden as a local, national and global impact narrative, her book examines fundamental processes of cultural transmission that are of relevance far beyond this specific case study. In this way, it exemplifies a new mode of doing cultural history that interweaves the local and the global.“Fuchs' great contribution is to show how the terrible destruction of World War II created the compelling effects of 'the aftermath of history' in our time.” - Peter Fritzsche, University of Illinois, USA
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