Afterlives of the Roman Poets

Biofiction and the Reception of Latin Poetry

AvNora Goldschmidt

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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Conscious of ancient modes of reading poetry 'for the life', Roman poets encoded versions of their lives into their texts. The result is a body of literature that cries out to be read in terms of lives in reception. Afterlives of the Roman Poets shows how the fictional biographies (or 'biofictions') of its authors have shaped the reception of Latin poetry. From medieval biographies of Ovid inscribed in the margins of his texts to republican readings of Lucan's death in periods of revolution to the 'death of the author' in Hermann Broch's Der Tod des Vergil, the book tells a cultural history of the reception of ancient literature as imagined through the lens of poets' lives. Putting modern life-writing studies and ancient poetry into dialogue, it brings biofictional reception to debates in classics, and puts antiquity and its reception onto the map of modern studies in life-writing.

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Utgivningsdatum:2024-02-08
Mått:149 x 229 x 14 mm
Vikt:366 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Classics after Antiquity
Antal sidor:246
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781316632086

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Nora Goldschmidt is Associate Professor of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University. Her publications include Shaggy Crowns: Ennius' Annales and Virgil's Aeneid (2013) and (edited with Barbara Graziosi) Tombs of the Ancient Poets: Between Literary Reception and Material Culture (2018).

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'… this book offers a wealth of interesting observations of detail on the medieval, early modern and modern works investigated, as the novel approach of a 'biofictional' perspective enables studying these writings from a distinct perspective, leading to new insights and clearer descriptions of previous observations.' Gesine Manuwald, International Journal of the Classical Tradition

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Introduction; 1. Medieval Ovids; 2. Staging the poets: Ben Jonson's Poetaster; 3. Lucan and revolution; 4. Lucretius and modern subjectivity; 5. The death of the author: Hermann Broch's Der Tod des Vergil; Post-mortem.