Format:
X, 380 Seiten
Edition:
First edition
ISBN:
9780199675630
Content:
In this book Luke Roman offers a major new approach to the study of ancient Roman poetry. A key term in the modern interpretation of art and literature, 'aesthetic autonomy' refers to the idea that the work of art belongs to a realm of its own, separate from ordinary activities and detached from quotidian interests. While scholars have often insisted that aesthetic autonomy is an exclusively modern concept and cannot be applied to other historical periods, the book argues that poets in ancient Rome employed a 'rhetoric of autonomy' to define their position within Roman society and establish the distinctive value of their work. This study of the Roman rhetoric of poetic autonomy includes an examination of poetic self-representation in first-person genres from the late republic to the early empire
Note:
Dissertation University Stanford, Calif. 1999
,
Introduction: Autonomy ancient and modernFirst-person poetry and the autonomist turn: Lucilius, Catullus, and Cicero's Consulatus suus -- Autarky, withdrawal, confinement: the autonomist niche in early Augustan poetry (ca. 39 BC-25 BC) -- The expansion of autonomy: Augustan poetry (ca. 25 BC-AD 17) -- Materialities of use and subordination: the challenge of the autonomist legacy -- Conclusion: poetry and other 'games'.
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Roman, Luke Poetic autonomy in ancient Rome Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014 ISBN 9780191766022
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ancient Studies
Keywords:
Latein
;
Literatur
;
Autonomie
;
Hochschulschrift
