Marginal comment
Subtitle: A memoir revisited
By: Kenneth Dover
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2023
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781350295865
Subjects: Education; History; Memoirs; Ancient history: to c 500 CE; Autobiography: general
Description: Marginal Comment, which attracted keen and widespread interest on its original publication in 1994, is the remarkable memoir of one of the most distinguished classical scholars of the modern era. Its author, Sir Kenneth Dover, whose academic publications included the pathbreaking book Greek Homosexuality (1978, reissued by Bloomsbury in 2016), conceived of it as an 'experimental' autobiography - ruthlessly candid in retracing the full range of the author's experiences, both private and public, and unflinching in its attempt to analyse the entanglements between the life of the mind and the life of the body.  Dover's distinguished career involved not only an influential series of writings about the ancient Greeks but also a number of prominent positions of leadership, including the presidencies of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and the British Academy. It was in those positions that he became involved in several high-profile controversies, including the blocking of an honorary degree for Margaret Thatcher from Oxford University, and a bitter debate in the British Academy over the fellowship of Anthony Blunt after his exposure as a former Soviet spy.   This edition of Marginal Comment is much more than a reissue: it includes an introduction which frames the book in relation to its author's life and work, as well as annotations based in part on materials originally excluded by Dover but left in his personal papers on this death. Now newly available, the memoir provides not only the self-portrait of an exceptional individual but a rich case-study in the intersections between an intellectual life and its social contexts..
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Table of contents: title: List of Figures  Editorial Foreword  Introduction: The Conception and Reception of Marginal Comment (Stephen Halliwell)  Preface  Acknowledgements   1. On Autobiography  2. Forebears  3. Escape Routes 1920-1932  4. Body and Soul 1926-1934  5. Exotica 1933-  6. Reconstitution 1935-1936  7. Transition 1936-1940  8. Intermission 1940-1945  9. Women, Children and Work 1940-1951  10. History, Comedy and Other Things 1949-  11. Migration 1951-1960  12. People and Power 1955-1966  13. Mind and Body 1958-  14. Plato and After 1962-1989  15. Tributaries 1962-  16. The Public 1964-1980  17. Fruition 1966-1968  18. Revolutions (Fringe) 1968-1975  19. Right and Wrong 1969-1983  20. Elevations 1970-1993  21. Dovers 1972-1982  22. College and University 1975-1986  23. Style 1977-1994  24. Excursions 1979-1984  25. The Blunt Affair 1979-1981  26. The Aston Affair 1980-1985  27. Admissions 1982-1984  28. Best Before 1983-  29. At Large 1984-1992  30. The Thatcher Affair 1985  31. A History Man  32. Epimetron 1994    Index.