
Amphion
Lyre, Poetry, and Politics in Modernity
By: Leah Middlebrook
Hardcover | 27 November 2024 | Edition Number 1
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Amphion is the figure in Greek mythology who played so skillfully on a lyre that stones moved of their own accord to build walls for Thebes. While Amphion still presides over music and architecture, he was once fundamental to the concept of lyric poetry. Amphion figured the human power to inspire action, creating and undoing polities by means of language. In contrast to the individual inspiration we associate with the better-known Orpheus, Amphion represents the relentless, often violent, play of order and disorder in human social life. His lyre was a powerful metaphor in the age of European imperial expansion.
In this wide-ranging study, Leah Middlebrook introduces readers to Amphion-inspired poetics and lyrics and traces the tradition of the Amphionic from the Renaissance through modernist and postmodern poetry and translation from the Hispanic, Anglophone, French, Italian, and ancient Roman worlds. Amphion makes a significant contribution to scholarship on the connection between poetry and politics and the history of the lyric, offering an account well-suited to our times.
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"Amphion is a book worth savoring for its brilliant analysis of lyric modes, contexts, and forms. Amphion-the poetic builder whose lyre charmed the stones into creating the city-state of Thebes-is a central figure of the powers of poetry in culture. This book reminds us that Amphion is also a figure presupposing destruction and cultural dechirement: Middlebrook interrogates the place of poetry in times of discord, violence, and disruption. Although Amphion will be especially illuminating for early modernists, anyone interested in lyric poetry or in the place of the arts in the polis will find this book thought-provoking and relevant to our own cultural moment." * A. E. B. Coldiron, Florida State University *
ISBN: 9780226835518
ISBN-10: 0226835510
Series: Thinking Literature
Published: 27th November 2024
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 208
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Country of Publication: GB
Edition Number: 1
Dimensions (cm): 22.86 x 15.24 x 2.03
Weight (kg): 0.52
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