Epic Logos: On First Looking into Several Homers

I - FealtyJohn Keats’s sonnet “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” charts a key moment in the construction of the modern subject, making that identification between subjectivity and language, a Logos everywhere complicit with power, which has been a major feature of the western philosophical tra...

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Publicado en:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/erea,
Autor principal: SMITH, Stan
Formato: Article ou chapitre numérique
Lenguaje:Anglais
Publicado: E-rea 2011
Acceso en línea:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Sumario:I - FealtyJohn Keats’s sonnet “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” charts a key moment in the construction of the modern subject, making that identification between subjectivity and language, a Logos everywhere complicit with power, which has been a major feature of the western philosophical tradition:Much have I travell’d in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; Round many western islands have I been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse ha...