Persius - A Study in Food, Philosophy, and the Figural

Informationen zum Autor Shadi Bartsch is the Helen A. Regenstein Distinguished Service Professor of Classics at the University of Chicago. She is the author! most recently! of The Mirror of the Self: Sexuality! Self-Knowledge! and the Gaze in the Early Roman Empire and coeditor of the Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca series! also published by the University of Chicago Press. Klappentext Features poems of a Roman poet and satirist. This book argues that author sets his own bizarre metaphors of food! digestion! and sexuality against more appealing imagery to show that the latter - and the poetry containing it - harms rather than helps its audience. Zusammenfassung Features poems of a Roman poet and satirist. This book argues that author sets his own bizarre metaphors of food! digestion! and sexuality against more appealing imagery to show that the latter - and the poetry containing it - harms rather than helps its audience.

Product details

• Authors: Shadi Bartsch, Shadi (University of Chicago) Bartsch
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.03.2015
• EAN: 9780226241845
• ISBN: 978-0-226-24184-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets