Art of Pliny''s Letters - A Poetics of Allusion in the Private Correspondence

Informationen zum Autor Ilaria Marchesi is Assistant Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature! and Director of the Classics Programme at Hofstra University. Recipient of the National Endowment for the Humanities Grant in 2005-2006 for her work on Pliny! she has published also on Horace and Petronius as well as the classical tradition in the Middle Ages. Klappentext First book to treat Pliny's epistles as a work of literature! illuminating contemporary cultural debates. Zusammenfassung This text treats Pliny's private epistles neither as a mere source of historical and social information! nor as a portrait of the artist! but as a work of literature. It studies poetic allusion in epistolary prose! thereby illuminating the cultural debates about poetry! oratory and historiography in Pliny's day. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The semiotics of structure; 2. Sed quid ego tam gloriose? Pliny's choice of poetics; 3. The importance of being Secundus: Tacitus' voice in Pliny's letters; 4. Storming historiography: Pliny's voice in Tacitus' texts; 5. Overcoming Ciceronian anxiety: Pliny's niche/nike in literary history; From dawn till dusk: four notes in lieu of a conclusion; Appendix to Chapter 5.

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• Autori: Ilaria Marchesi, Ilaria (Hofstra University Marchesi
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 21.02.2008
• EAN: 9780521882279
• ISBN: 978-0-521-88227-9
• Pagine: 292
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata