Pliny the Book-Maker - Betting on Posterity in the Epistles

Informationen zum Autor Ilaria Marchesi is Associate Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Hofstra University. Her research interests range from Latin Satire to Roman Epistolography, and she is currently working on the satirical aspects in Martial's epigrams. She is the author of The Art of Pliny's Letters: A Poetics of Allusion in the Private Correspondence (2008). Klappentext The studies collected in this volume address Pliny's complex self-editorial strategies, ultimately suggesting that his work contributed to the creation of the literary-historical concept of posterity. Zusammenfassung The studies collected in this volume address Pliny's complex self-editorial strategies, ultimately suggesting that his work contributed to the creation of the literary-historical concept of posterity. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Contributors Introduction 1: John Bodel: The Publication of Pliny's Letters 2: Christopher Whitton: Grand Designs/Unrolling Epistles 2 3: Ruth Morello: Pliny Book 8: Two Viewpoints and the Pedestrian Reader 4: Roy Gibson: Not Dark Yet...: Reading to the End of Pliny's Nine-Book Collection 5: Ilaria Marchesi: Uncluttered Spaces, Unlittered Texts: Pliny's Villas as Editorial Places References Index

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• Authors: Ilaria Marchesi, Ilaria (Associate Professor of Classics Marchesi
• Assisted by: Ilaria Marchesi (Editor), Ilaria (Associate Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature Marchesi (Editor), Marchesi Ilaria (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.07.2015
• EAN: 9780198729464
• ISBN: 978-0-19-872946-4
• No. of pages: 292
• Subjects: Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Latin, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval