Description: Other genres, different media, and a variety of subgenres and modes political and religious--all acquire fresh significance from the elaborations of Snyder's three selected genres.
Brief description: John Snyder is associate professor of literature and humanities at the University of Houston.
Review Quotes:
Ranges from the Greeks to the moderns, never name-dropping but showing on every page that he has drunk deeply from the springs of literature.
-- "World Literature Today"