Redeeming the Text - Latin Poetry and the Hermeneutics of Reception

Zusammenfassung This book applies some of the procedures of modern critical theory to the interpretation of Latin poetry. The author argues for an approach which sees the meaning of a text as always and necessarily involved in the process of 'reception'! that is the way it has been read and interpreted from the time of its composition down to the present day. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Five concepts in search of an author: suite; 2. Rereading Virgil: divertimento; 3. Rereading Ovid and Lucan: cadenzas; 4. Translation as rereading: symphony in three movements; Postscript: redeeming the text, or a lover's discourse.

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• Authors: Charles Martindale, Charles (University of Bristol) Martindale
• Assisted by: D. C. Feeney (Editor), Stephen Hinds (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.12.1992
• EAN: 9780521427197
• ISBN: 978-0-521-42719-7
• No. of pages: 140
• Series: Roman Literature and Its Conte
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies