{"product_id":"from-a-sabine-jar-reading-horace-odes-1-9","title":"From a Sabine Jar: Reading Horace, Odes 1.9","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eFrom a Sabine Jar: Reading Horace, Odes 1.9\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eLowell Edmunds\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e0807820083\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eThe University of North Carolina Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1992\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e178\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eThis book is a detailed study of a single poem -- Horace, \u003ci\u003eOdes 1.9\u003c\/i\u003e -- often called 'The Soracte Ode' after the mountain named in its second line. Although more than seventy articles and parts of books have been devoted to this twenty-four line poem since the beginning of the last century, Lowell Edmunds is the first scholar to apply developments in literary theory from outside the field of classics to a discussion of the ode. Specifically, he uses Hans Robert Jauss's essay on Baudelaire's \"Spleen (II)\" as a model for his study.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAccording to Edmunds, attempts to answer aesthetic questions about ancient lyric poems typically begin with philological or historical facts -- which scholars present as new evidence, heretofore undiscovered or misunderstood -- and proceed to an analysis built on those facts. Edmunds argues that contemporary literary theory provides a different way of reconciling the aestheic and historical claims of a lyric poem, ancient or modern. He then takes a fresh look at Horace's poem, employing Jauss's method of performing three successive readings of the text: the first aesthetic or perceptual, the second interpretive, and the third historicist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this hermeneutic Jaussian approach, Edmunds shows, the unity of the poem appears in the process of reading rather than, as in a philological approach, in the analysis of it. Moreover, he labels an emphasis on the act of reading itself, distinct from analysis, as the main difference between philological and hermeneutical ways of understanding a poem. Focusing on this contrast, he surveys the history of the ode's reception and scholarly interpretation. In the final chapter, he briefly considers deconstruction as an alternative critical method. Assessing the rival claims of hermeneutics, deconstruction, and philology as interpretive tools, Edmunds concludes by favoring hermeneutics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1992.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"The University of North Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"From a Sabine Jar: Reading Horace, Odes 1.9 | Lowell Edmunds | Hardcover | 0807820083 | Used: Like New | Literary Criticism 1785367 (temp: 27)","offer_id":50776794628354,"sku":"1785367","price":22.13,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/71Zy3FvxJ0L.jpg?v=1792160259","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/from-a-sabine-jar-reading-horace-odes-1-9","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}