Professor Michael Silk
Professor of Classical & Comparative Literature
Tel +44 (0)20 7848 2627
Email michael.silk@kcl.ac.uk
Address Department of Classics & Department of Comparative Literature
The Old Watch House, East Wing
King's College London
Strand
London WC2R 2LS
Research Interests
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Poetry in theory and practice
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Tragedy and comedy in theory and practice
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Greek poetry and drama
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Literary theory, ancient and modern
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The classical tradition
Selected Publications
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Michael Silk (2012) 'ART AND THE SENSES' TLS: The Times literary supplement (5682), pp. 23-24.
[Book Review (Print)]
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Michael Silk (2012) 'THE ORIGINS OF AESTHETIC THOUGHT IN ANCIENT GREECE Matter, sensation, and experience' TLS: The Times literary supplement (5682), pp. 23-24.
[Book Review (Print)]
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Michael Silk (2010) 'SOPHOCLES' OEDIPUS AT COLONUS Manuscript materials by W. B. Yeats' TLS: The Times literary supplement (5579), pp. 10-11.
[Book Review (Print)]
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Alexandra Georgakopoulou, Michael Silk (2009) Standard Languages and Language Standards – Greek, Past and Present Ashgate
[Edited book in print]
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Michael Silk (2008) 'ENGLISH VERSIONS OF ROMAN SATIRE IN THE EARLIER EIGHTEENTH CENTURY' TLS: The Times literary supplement (5514), pp. 10-11.
[Book Review (Print)]
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Michael Silk (2008) 'MAKING MOCKERY The poetics of ancient satire' TLS: The Times literary supplement (5514), pp. 10-11.
[Book Review (Print)]
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Michael Silk (2008) 'THE THICK OF IT' TLS: The Times literary supplement (5514), pp. 10-11.
[Book Review (Print)]
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Michael Silk (2007) 'Hughes, Plath and Aeschylus: Allusion and Poetic Language' ARION-A JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES AND THE CLASSICS, 14 (3), pp. 1-33.
[Article in print Journal]
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M Silk (2007) 'Hughes, Plath, and Aeschylus: Allusion and poetic language (Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath)' ARION-A JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES AND THE CLASSICS, 14 (3), pp. 1-33.
[Article in print Journal]
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M Silk (2007) 'Hughes, Plath, and Aeschylus: Allusion and poetic language (Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath)' ARION-A JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES AND THE CLASSICS, 14 (3), pp. 1-33.
[Article in print Journal]
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Michael Silk (2007) 'Pindar's Poetry as Poetry: a literary commentary on Olympian 12 ', in Pindar's Poetry, Patrons, and Festivals From Archaic Greece to the Roman Empire pp. 177-197
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Michael Silk (2007) 'Translating/Transposing Aristophanes', Conference on Aristophanes Upstairs and Downstairs - Peace, Birds and Frogs in Ancient and Modern Performance, Oxford, ENGLAND 16-SEP-2004 - 18-SEP-2004 LEEDS:MANEY PUBLISHING pp. 287-308
[Conference Paper in Book (Print)]
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M S Silk (2004) 'A commentary on the Pindar 'Olympian Nine'' CLASSICAL REVIEW, 54 (1), pp. 22-23.
[Book Review (Print)]
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A Hirst, M Silk (2004) Alexandria Real and Imagined Aldershot: Ashgate
[Edited book in print]
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Michael Silk (2004) 'Alexandrian Poetry from Callimachus to Eliot', in Alexandria Real or Imagined pp. 353-372
[Chapter]
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M S Silk (2004) Homer : The Iliad Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press
[Authored Book in print]
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M S Silk (2004) 'Nietzsche, Decadence, and the Greeks' NEW LITERARY HISTORY, 35 (4), pp. 587-605.
[Article in print Journal]
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Michael Silk (2004) 'Shakespeare and Greek Tragedy: Strange Relationship', in Shakespeare and the Classics pp. 241-257
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Michael Silk (2003) 'Metaphor and Metonymy: Aristotle, Jakobson, Ricouer, and others', in Metaphor, Allegory, and the Classical Tradition pp. 115-147
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Michael Silk (2001) 'Pindar meets Plato: theory, language, value, and the classics', in Texts, Ideas, and the Classics pp. 26-45
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M S Silk (2000) Aristophanes and the definition of comedy Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press
[Authored Book in print]
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MS Silk, David Ricks (2000) Dialogos: Hellenic Studies Review. Volume 6 Frank Cass Publishers [Edited book in print]