Research Catalog

Title

Rediscovering E.R. Dodds : scholarship, education, poetry, and the paranormal / edited by Christopher Stray, Christopher Pelling and Stephen Harrison.

Publication

• Oxford : New York : Oxford University Press, 2019.
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

• Stray, Christopher
• Pelling, C. B. R.
• Harrison, S. J.

Description

viii, 341 pages : illustrations (black and white); 22 cm

Summary

Rediscovering E. R. Dodds offers the first comprehensive assessment of a remarkable classical scholar, who was also a poet with extensive links to twentieth-century English and Irish literary culture, the friend of Auden and MacNeice. Dodds was born in Northern Ireland, but made his name as Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford from 1936 to 1960, succeeding Gilbert Murray. Before this he taught at Reading and Birmingham, was active in the Association of University Teachers, or AUT (of which he became president), and brought an outsider's perspective to the comfortable and introspective world of Oxford. His famous book The Greeks and the Irrational (1951) remains one of the most distinguished and visionary works of scholarship of its time, though much less well-known is his long and influential involvement with psychic research and his work for the reconstruction of German education after the Second World War. The contributions to this volume seek to shed light on these less explored areas of Dodds' life and his significance as perhaps the last classicist to play a significant role in British literary culture, as well as examining his work across different areas of scholarship, notably Greek tragedy. A group of memoirs - one by his pupil and former literary executor, Donald Russell, and three by younger friends who knew, visited, and looked after Dodds in his last years - complement this portrait of the influential scholar and poet, offering a glimpse of the man behind the legacy.

Subject

Dodds, E. R. 1893-1979

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [299]-332) and index.

Call Number

JFD 20-1687

ISBN

• 0198777361
• 9780198777366

OCLC

1120079733

Title

Rediscovering E.R. Dodds : scholarship, education, poetry, and the paranormal / edited by Christopher Stray, Christopher Pelling and Stephen Harrison.

Publisher

Oxford : New York : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [299]-332) and index.

Added Author

Stray, Christopher, editor.

Pelling, C. B. R., editor.

Harrison, S. J., editor.

Research Call Number

JFD 20-1687