Format:
1 Online-Ressource (XIV, 148 S.)
ISBN:
9780511613289
Series Statement:
Roman literature and its contexts
Content:
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
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
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Erscheinungsjahr des E-Books: 2010
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-0-521-77223-5
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-0-521-77663-9
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 0-521-77663-5
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 0-521-77223-0
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ancient Studies
Keywords:
Latein
;
Rezeption
;
Geschichte
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511613289
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