Rediscovering E. R. Dodds
Scholarship, Education, Poetry, and the Paranormal
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 3 October 2019
- ISBN 9780198777366
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages368 pages
- Size 222x146x27 mm
- Weight 590 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 5 black-and-white illustrations 0
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Short description:
Famous for his visionary book, The Greeks and the Irrational (1951), E. R. Dodds was not only a remarkable classical scholar, but also a poet with extensive links to twentieth-century English and Irish literary culture. This volume explores his life, career, and legacy, including a group of memoirs by some of his pupils and friends.
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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.
Rediscovering E.R. Dodds is an invitation to consider not only Dodds the enshrined scholar, but also Dodds the human, himself once a nobody, who lived in trying times and had to overcome many hurdles. These hurdles and his beginner's luck, panache and intellectual strategies are retraced in Stray and Pelling's first chapter.
Table of Contents:
Frontmatter
List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Introduction: A Missing Person?
An Irishman Abroad
The Battle for the Irrational: Greek Religion 1920 1950
The Rational Irrationalist: Dodds and the Paranormal
The Greeks and the Irrational
'The road of excess': Dodds and Greek Tragedy
Dodds and Plato: The Gorgias Edition
Dodds's Influence on Neoplatonic Studies
Pagans and Christians: Fifty Years of Anxiety
Dodds, Plotinus, and Stephen MacKenna
'the lonely flight of Mind': W. B. Yeats, Louis MacNeice and the Metaphysical Poetry of Dodds's Scholarship
The Deaths of Tragedy: The Agamemnon of MacNeice, Dodds, and Yeats
Dodds and Educational Policy for a Defeated Germany
Memories of E. R. Dodds
Endmatter
E. R. Dodds: A Bibliography of his Publications
General Bibliography
Index
