Redeeming the text
Latin poetry and the hermeneutics of reception
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Author
Publication
1993 - Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [England], England
Language
English
Word Count
29,250 words, Guess
Page Count
117 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1703069M
- ISBN-100521417171
- OCLC Control Number25245932
- Library of Congress Control Number92004116
- Goodreads1273270
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- LibraryThing291293
Classifications
- DDC871/.0109
- LCCPA6047 .M28 1993
Description
This book applies some of the procedures of modern critical theory to the interpretation of Latin poetry. The author argues for an approach that sees the meaning of a text as always and necessarily involved in the process of 'reception, ' that is the way it has been read and interpreted from the time of its composition down to the present day. A study of its reception-history facilitates novel and more profitable ways of reading. He illustrates his approach with exemplary readings of Virgil, Ovid, Horace and Lucan.
Subjects
Series Statement
- Roman literature and its contexts
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