Rumour and Renown - Representations of Fama in Western Literature

Informationen zum Autor Philip Hardie is a Senior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, and Honorary Professor of Latin Literature in the University of Cambridge. He is one of the leading critics of Latin literature, with strong interests in the reception of classical literature, and is the author of Virgil's Aeneid: Cosmos and Imperium (1986), The Epic Successors of Virgil (1993), Ovid's Poetics of Illusion (2002) and Lucretian Receptions (2009), the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Ovid (2002) and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Lucretius (2007). He is currently co-editing the Renaissance volume of The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature. He is a Fellow of the British Academy. Klappentext Major study of the literary treatment of rumour and renown across the canon of authors from Homer to Alexander Pope. Zusammenfassung Major study of the literary treatment of rumour and renown across the canon of authors from Homer to Alexander Pope! including readings in historiographical and dramatic texts! and authors such as Petrarch! Chaucer! Spenser! Shakespeare and Milton. Of interest to students of classical and comparative literature and of reception studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Hesiod and Homer: Virgilian beginnings; 3. Virgil's Fama; 4. Fame and defamation in the Aeneid; 5. Ovid: Metamorphoses; 6. Later epic: Lucan, Statius, Valerius Flaccus, Nonnus; 7. Roman historiography I: Livy; 8. Roman historiography II: Tacitus; 9. Fama and Amor; 10. Fame and blame: Spenser; 11. Christian conversions of Fama; 12. Petrarch: Trionfi, Africa; 13. Fama and power in early modern England: Shakespeare, Ben Jonson; 14. Milton: Samson Agonistes; 15. Plots of fame: Chaucer, Alexander Pope; 16. Visual representations of Fama.

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• Authors: Philip Hardie, Philip (Trinity College Hardie, Hardie Philip
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.02.2012
• EAN: 9780521620888
• ISBN: 978-0-521-62088-8
• No. of pages: 706
• Series: Cambridge Classical Studies; Cambridge Classical Studies
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets