Download or read book The Classical Moment written by Gail Holst-Warhaft and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 1999-04-29 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Classical Moment is a reexamination of the concept of a supreme moment in the literatures of Greece, Mesopotamia, India, China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. Taking the case of Greece as its starting point, it examines what such 'moments' have in common, how they are created, and what effect they have on subsequent literary creation.