Lines of Enquiry

Download or read book Lines of Enquiry written by Niall Rudd and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-20 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these studies of Latin poetry Niall Rudd demonstrates a variety of critical methods and approaches. He shows how it can be fruitful at different times to consider the historical background of a poem, its language or structure, its place in a literary tradition, the role of critical paradigms, and so on. But if no single approach has special and invariable authority this does not imply critical anarchy. Each has its own validity for different purposes, its own strengths and limitations. The reader must be versatile and sensitive to a range of possibilities, but not doctrinaire.