Allusion and Intertext: Dynamics of Appropriation in Roman Poetry

by Stephen Hinds

Overview

This is a book about how the poets of Classical Rome found artistic inspiration in the words and themes of their poetic predecessors. It combines traditional Classical approaches to poetic allusion and imitation with modern literary-theoretical ways of thinking about how texts are used and reused, valued and revalued, in particular reading communities. Like other volumes in the series it is among the most broadly conceived short books on Roman literature to be published in recent years.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521571869
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	01/29/1998
Series:	Roman Literature and its Contexts
Pages:	172
Product dimensions:	5.35(w) x 8.11(h) x 0.59(d)

Table of Contents

Preface; List of abbreviations; 1. Reflexivity: allusion and self-annotation; 2. Interpretability: beyond philological fundamentalism; 3. Diachrony: literary history and its narratives; 4. Repetition and change; 5. Tradition and self-fashioning; Bibliography; Index.

Editorial Reviews

"This book is accessible, substantial, and fun." Classical World

"Stephen Hinds' Allusion and Intertext is a welcome addition to the study of intertextuality which has come to dominate work on Latin poetry." Christopher Nappa, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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