Reception and the classics
This collection brings together leading experts in a number of fields of the humanities to offer a new perspective on the classical tradition. Drawing on reception studies, philology and early modern studies, the essays explore the interaction between literary criticism and the multiple cultural con...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2012
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| Series: | Yale classical studies
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| Collection: | Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I, Reception between transmission and philology: "Arouse the dead": Mai, Leopardi, and Cicero's commonwealth in Restoration Italy / James Zetzel
- Honor culture, praise, and Servius' Aeneid / Robert Kaster
- 4. Joyce and modernist Latinity / Joseph Farrell
- 5. Lyricus vates : musical settings of Horace's Odes / Richard Tarrant
- Part II, Reception as self-fashioning: Petrarch's epistolary epic : Letters on familiar matters (Rerum familiarium libri) / Giuseppe Mazzotta
- 7. The first British Aeneid : a case study in reception / Emily Wilson
- 8. Ovid's witchcraft / Gordon Braden
- 9. The streets of Rome : the classical Dylan / Richard F. Thomas
- Part III, Envoi: Reception and the classics / Christopher S. Wood