Allusion and Intertext
Allusion and Intertext
Dynamics of Appropriation in Roman Poetry
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This is a book about how the poets of Classical Rome found artistic inspiration in the words and themes of their poetic predecessors. It combines traditional Classical approaches to poetic allusion and imitation with modern literary-theoretical ways of thinking about how texts are used and reused, valued and revalued, in particular reading communities. Like other volumes in the series it is among the most broadly conceived short books on Roman literature to be published in recent years.
- Stephen Hinds is one of the two series editors who jointly invented the series
- An innovative and subtle approach to the study of poetic allusion
- Author combines theoretical sophistication with traditional skill in analysing the texts
Reviews & endorsements
"This book is accessible, substantial, and fun." Classical World
"Stephen Hinds' Allusion and Intertext is a welcome addition to the study of intertextuality which has come to dominate work on Latin poetry." Christopher Nappa, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Product details
February 1998Hardback
9780521571869
172 pages
206 × 136 × 15 mm
0.3kg
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- 1. Reflexivity: allusion and self-annotation
- 2. Interpretability: beyond philological fundamentalism
- 3. Diachrony: literary history and its narratives
- 4. Repetition and change
- 5. Tradition and self-fashioning
- Bibliography
- Index.
