Creative Imitation and Latin Literature
Title | Creative Imitation and Latin Literature PDF eBook |
Author | David West |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 1979-12-20 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521226684 |
The poets and prose-writers of Greece and Rome were acutely conscious of their literary heritage. They expressed this consciousness in the regularity with which, in their writings, they imitated and alluded to the great authors who had preceded them. Such imitation was generally not regarded as plagiarism but as essential to the creation of a new literary work: imitating one's predecessors was in no way incompatible with originality or progress. These views were not peculiar to the writers of Greece and Rome but were adopted by many others who have written in the 'classical tradition' right up to modern times. Creative Imitation and Latin Literature is an exploration of this concept of imitation. The contributors analyse selected passages from various authors - Greek, Latin and English - in order to demonstrate how Latin authors created new works of art by imitating earlier passages of literature.
The Arts of Imitation in Latin Prose
Title | The Arts of Imitation in Latin Prose PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Whitton |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 577 |
Release | 2019-06-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108476570 |
Imitation was central to Roman culture, and a staple of Latin poetry. But it was also fundamental to prose. This book brings together two monuments of the High Empire, Quintilian's Institutio oratoria ('Training of the orator') and Pliny's Epistles, to reveal a spectacular project of textual and ethical imitation. As a young man Pliny had studied with Quintilian. In the Epistles he meticulously transforms and subsumes his teacher's masterpiece, together with poetry and prose ranging from Homer to Tacitus' Dialogus de oratoribus. In teasing apart Pliny's rich intertextual weave, this book reinterprets Quintilian through the eyes of one of his sharpest readers, radically reassesses the Epistles as a work of minute textual artistry, and makes a major intervention in scholarly debates on intertextuality, imitation and rhetorical culture at Rome. The result is a landmark study with far-reaching implications for how we read Latin literature.
Reminiscence and Imitation
Title | Reminiscence and Imitation PDF eBook |
Author | Einar Lofstedt |
Publisher | |
Pages | 16 |
Release | 19?? |
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Author and Audience in Latin Literature
Title | Author and Audience in Latin Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony John Woodman |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 294 |
Release | 1992-06-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0521383072 |
Essays by distinguished scholars on the relationship between Latin authors and their audiences.
A Companion to Latin Literature
Title | A Companion to Latin Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Harrison |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 472 |
Release | 2008-04-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1405137371 |
A Companion to Latin Literature gives an authoritativeaccount of Latin literature from its beginnings in the thirdcentury BC through to the end of the second century AD. Provides expert overview of the main periods of Latin literaryhistory, major genres, and key themes Covers all the major Latin works of prose and poetry, fromEnnius to Augustine, including Lucretius, Cicero, Catullus, Livy,Vergil, Seneca, and Apuleius Includes invaluable reference material – dictionaryentries on authors, chronological chart of political and literaryhistory, and an annotated bibliography Serves as both a discursive literary history and a generalreference book
The Rhetoric of Imitation
Title | The Rhetoric of Imitation PDF eBook |
Author | Gian Biagio Conte |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780801483592 |
Gian Biagio Conte here seeks to establish a theoretical basis for explaining the ways in which Latin poets borrow from one another and echo one another.
Latin Literature
Title | Latin Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Susanna Morton Braund |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2005-07-19 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1134646771 |
This highly accessible, user-friendly work provides a fresh and illuminating introduction to the most important aspects of Latin prose and poetry. Readers are constantly encouraged to think for themselves about how and why we study the texts in question. They are stimulated and inspired to do their own further reading through engagement with a wide selection of translated extracts, and with a useful exploration of the different ways in which they can be approached. Central throughout is the theme of the fundamental connections between Latin literature and issues of elite Roman culture. The versatile structure of the book makes it suitable both for individual and class use.