Intertextuality and the reading of Roman poetry / Lowell Edmunds.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Edmunds, Lowell.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin poetry--History and criticism.

Latin poetry.

Authors and readers--Rome.

Authors and readers.

Books and reading--Rome.

Books and reading.

Intertextuality.

Allusions.

Rome--Intellectual life.

Rome.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (223 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How can we explain the process by which a literary text refers to another text? For the past decade and a half, intertextuality has been a central concern of scholars and readers of Roman poetry. In Intertextuality and the Reading of Roman Poetry, Lowell Edmunds proceeds from such fundamental concepts as "author," "text," and "reader," which he then applies to passages from Vergil, Horace, Ovid, and Catullus. Edmunds combines close readings of poems with analysis of recent theoretical models to argue that allusion has no linguistic or semiotic basis: there is nothing in addition to the alluding words that causes the allusion or the reference to be made. Intertextuality is a matter of reading.

Contents:

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1

Text

Chapter 2

Poet

Chapter 3

Reader

Chapter 4

Persona

Chapter 5

Addressee

Chapter 6

Possible Worlds

Chapter 7

Reading in Rome, First Century B.C.E.

Chapter 8

Intertextuality

Conclusion

Works Cited

Index of Ancient Citations

General Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-188) and indexes.

ISBN:

0-8018-7540-4

OCLC:

297311030