Speaking Volumes - Narrative and Intertext in Ovid and Other Latin Poets

Informationen zum Autor Alessandro Barchiesi is Professor of Latin Literature at the University of Siena, Arezzo, Italy. He has lectured at Universities in Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge and Stanford, and has published widely on Augustan poetry, Imperial epic and the Roman novel. Vorwort Alessandro Barchiesi's collection of essays examines Ovid and his 'rationalistic art of illusion' along with intertextuality in Latin literature, and the wider context of the Graeco-Roman tradition. Zusammenfassung In a poem written in exile, Ovid pictures his latest book in conversation with his previous volumes, united in the bookcase containing his collected works back in Rome. One can imagine their dialogue – in the protected space of the whispering bookcase – as loaded with allusion and intertextuality. Speaking Volumes , a collection of essays by the distinguished classicist Alessandro Barchiesi, here translated into English for the first time, examines Ovid and his ‘rationalistic art of allusion’ along with intertextuality in Latin literature more generally, and in the wider context of the Graeco-Roman tradition.Professor Barchiesi provides fresh perspectives on the literary self-consciousness of the Latin poets, the allusive density of their texts, and the conflict between poetry and power in the Augustan age. The conflict between classicists and the texts they comment on, argue over and theorise about is also revealingly examined. Among the recurring topics in this challenging book, which will be of interest to all those studying classical literature and literary criticism, are the impact of intertextuality on the form of epic and epistle, the strategic significance of allusive poetics in a political context, and the importance of reading and interpretation as poetic themes. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Narrativity and Convention in the Heroides Voices and Narrative Instances in the Metamorphoses

Product details

• Authors: Alessandro Barchiesi, Barchiesi Alessandro
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780715630273
• ISBN: 978-0-7156-3027-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Duckworth Classical Essays; Duckworth Classical Essays
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Latein, Vorzeit, Frühgeschichte vor Christi Geburt, Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter, Latin, 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, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory