Closure of Space in Roman Poetics - Empire''s Inward Turn

An ambitious analysis of the Roman literary obsession with retreat and closed spaces, in the context of expanding empire.

List of contents

Introduction: interior designs; 1. Empire without end: opening, expansion, enclosure; 2. All four corners of the world: Horace's enclaves; 3. Roman philosophy and the house of being: Seneca's Letters; 4. Blood, sweat and fears in the Roman baths; 5. Imperial enclosure, epic spectacle; 6. The homeless problem: exile, entrapment, desire.

About the author

Victoria Rimell is Associate Professor of Latin Language and Literature at Sapienza Università di Roma. The author of three previous books with Cambridge University Press - Petronius and the Anatomy of Fiction (2002), Ovid's Lovers: Desire, Difference and the Poetic Imagination (2006) and Martial's Rome: Empire and the Ideology of Epigram (2008) - she has published many articles on Latin literature and Roman culture.

Summary

Aimed at scholars and students of Latin literature and at those interested in space, security and dwelling across the humanities, this book presents an ambitious and detailed analysis of the Roman literary obsession with retreat and closed spaces (caves, corners, villas, bathrooms, bodies and prisons) in the context of expanding empire.

Product details

• Authors: Dr. Victoria E. Rimell, Victoria Rimell
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781107437487
• ISBN: 978-1-107-43748-7
• No. of pages: 370
• Series: The W. B. Stanford Memorial Lectures; W. B. Stanford Memorial Lectur; The W. B. Stanford Memorial Lectures
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; History of Ideas, Latin, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient Rome, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, BCE to c 500 CE