Afterlives of the Roman Poets - Biofiction and the Reception of Latin Poetry

This innovative book reconceptualises Roman poetry and its reception through the lens of fictional biography ('biofiction').

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Medieval Ovids; 2. Staging the poets: Ben Jonson's Poetaster; 3. Lucan and revolution; 4. Lucretius and modern subjectivity; 5. The death of the author: Hermann Broch's Der Tod des Vergil; Post-mortem.

About the author

Nora Goldschmidt is Associate Professor of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University. Her publications include Shaggy Crowns: Ennius' Annales and Virgil's Aeneid (2013) and (edited with Barbara Graziosi) Tombs of the Ancient Poets: Between Literary Reception and Material Culture (2018).

Summary

Brings innovations in modern life-writing studies to Roman poetry and its reception. While its core fields are Latin poetry and reception studies, this interdisciplinary book will interest all those working on life-writing. Individual chapters focus on topics in medieval studies, Renaissance studies, Victorian literature, and modernist literature.

Product details

• Authors: Nora Goldschmidt, Nora (University of Durham) Goldschmidt, Goldschmidt Nora
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2024
• EAN: 9781316632086
• ISBN: 978-1-316-63208-6
• No. of pages: 245
• Series: Classics after Antiquity
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies; Biography: literary, Latin, HISTORY / Ancient / General, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient Rome, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Biography: writers, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets