Compromising Traditions: The Personal Voice in Classical Scholarship

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Compromising Traditions is the first collection of theoretically informed autobiographical writing in the field of classical studies which aims to create a more expansive and authoritative form of classical scholarship.

Author(s): Judith Hallett
Year: 1996

Language: English
Pages: 208

Preliminaries......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of contributors......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
1 Who do I think I am?......Page 25
2 Reading and re-reading the helpful princess......Page 34
3 Personal plurals......Page 47
4 False things which seem like the truth......Page 63
5 Proper voices: writing the writer......Page 82
6 Getting personal about Euripides......Page 111
7 Writing as an American in classical scholarship......Page 129
8 A response......Page 162
9 The authority of experience......Page 177
10 Conclusion: what is classical scholarship for?......Page 191
Index......Page 200