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Latin Language and Latin Culture
From Ancient to Modern Times
Av Joseph Farrell, D. C. Feeney m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
742 kr
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The Latin language is popularly imagined in a number of specific ways: as a masculine language, an imperial language, a classical language, a dead language. This book considers the sources of these metaphors and analyses their effect on how Latin literature is read. It argues that these metaphors …
The Epic Successors of Virgil
A Study in the Dynamics of a Tradition
Av Philip Hardie, D. C. Feeney m. fl.
Häftad, 1992
617 kr
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This short book is a study of the epic tradition of the early Roman empire and specifically of the epic poems of Ovid, Lucan, Statius, Valerius Flaccus and Silius Italicus. It explores the use they made of Virgil's Aeneid, an epic interpreted not just as a monument to the heroic construction of the …
Redeeming the Text
Latin Poetry and the Hermeneutics of Reception
Av Charles Martindale, D. C. Feeney m. fl.
Häftad, 1992
617 kr
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This book applies some of the procedures of modern critical theory (in particular reception-theory, deconstruction, theories of dialogue and the hermeneutics associated with the German philosopher Gadamer) to the interpretation of Latin poetry. Charles Martindale argues that we neither can nor …
Engendering Rome
Women in Latin Epic
Häftad, 2000
804 kr
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Heroism has long been recognised by readers and critics of Roman epic as a central theme of the genre from Virgil and Ovid to Lucan and Statius. However the crucial role female characters play in the constitution and negotiation of the heroism on display in epic has received scant attention in the …
Allusion and Intertext
Dynamics of Appropriation in Roman Poetry
Av Stephen Hinds, D. C. Feeney m. fl.
Inbunden, 1998
1572 kr
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The study of the deliberate allusion by one author to the words of a previous author has long been central to Latin philology. However, literary Romanists have been diffident about situating such work within the more spacious inquiries into intertextuality now current. This 1998 book represents an …
Traditions and Contexts in the Poetry of Horace
Av D. C. Feeney, Tony Woodman m. fl.
Inbunden, 2002
1797 kr
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This book explores the whole range of the output of an exceptionally versatile and innovative poet, from the Epodes to the literary-critical Epistles. Distinguished scholars of diverse background and interests introduce readers to a variety of critical approaches to Horace and to Latin poetry. …
Slavery and the Roman Literary Imagination
Av William Fitzgerald, D. C. Feeney m. fl.
Häftad, 2000
560 kr
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This book explores the presence of slaves and slavery in Roman literature and asks particularly what the free imagination made of the experience of living with slaves, beings who both were and were not fellow humans. As a shadow humanity, slaves furnished the free with other selves and imaginative …