Underlying Constants in the Changing Methods of Literary Study

FAIN: FS-10116-75

Unaffiliated independent scholar
Hugh Davidson (Project Director: January 1975 to present)

To examine the underlying constants in the changing methods or literary study, posed first in connection with fundamental documents written early in the Western tradition by Plato, Aristotle, Horace, and Longinus. The seminar will examine how these principals have been refined and elaborated in the vocabulary and techniques of contemporary literary study.