Latin language and Latin culture : from ancient to modern times / Joseph Farrell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Farrell, Joseph, 1955- author.

Series:

Roman literature and its contexts.

Roman literature and its contexts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin language--Study and teaching.

Latin language.

Latin literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Latin literature.

Rome--Civilization--Study and teaching.

Rome.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 148 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Latin Language & Latin Culture

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Summary:

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 have become idées fixes not only in the popular imagination but in the formation of Latin studies as a professional discipline. By reading with and more commonly against these metaphors, the book offers a different view of Latin as a language and as a vehicle for cultural practice. The argument ranges over a variety of texts in Latin and texts about Latin produced by many different sorts of writers from antiquity to the twentieth century.

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; CHAPTER 1 The nature of Latin culture; CHAPTER 2 The poverty of our ancestral speech; CHAPTER 3 The gender of Latin; CHAPTER 4 The life cycle of dead languages; CHAPTER 5 The voices of Latin culture; Appendix: Nepos fr. 59 in the edition of Marshall (1977); Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

ISBN:

1-107-11961-8

1-280-42128-2

0-511-17562-0

0-511-04081-4

0-511-15608-1

0-511-61328-8

0-511-32353-0

0-511-04972-2

OCLC:

475915013