The Art of Pliny's Letters
Title | The Art of Pliny's Letters PDF eBook |
Author | Ilaria Marchesi |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011-06-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521296977 |
In this book on intertextuality in Pliny the Younger, Professor Marchesi invites an alternative reading of Pliny's collection of private epistles: the letters are examined as the product of an authorial strategy controlling both the rhetorical fabric of individual units and their arrangement in the collection. By inserting recognisable fragments of canonical authors into his epistles, Pliny imports into the still fluid practice of letter-writing the principles of composition and organisation that for his contemporaries characterised other writings as literature. Allusions become the occasion for a metapoetic dialogue, especially with the collection's privileged addressee, Tacitus. An active participant in the cultural politics of his time, Pliny entrusts to the letters his views on poetry, oratory and historiography. In defining a model of epistolography alternative to Cicero's and complementing those of Horace, Ovid and Seneca, he also successfully carves a niche for his work in the Roman literary canon.
Reading the Letters of Pliny the Younger
Title | Reading the Letters of Pliny the Younger PDF eBook |
Author | Roy K. Gibson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 363 |
Release | 2012-03-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 110737703X |
This is the first general introduction to Pliny's Letters published in any language, combining close readings with broader context and adopting a fresh and innovative approach to reading the letters as an artistically structured collection. Chapter 1 traces Pliny's autobiographical narrative throughout the Letters; Chapter 2 undertakes detailed study of Book 6 as an artistic entity; while Chapter 3 sets Pliny's letters within a Roman epistolographical tradition dominated by Cicero and Seneca. Chapters 4 to 7 study thematic letter cycles within the collection, including those on Pliny's famous country villas and his relationships with Pliny the Elder and Tacitus. The final chapter focuses on the 'grand design' which unifies and structures the collection. Four detailed appendices give invaluable historical and scholarly context, including a helpful timeline for Pliny's life and career, detailed bibliographical help on over 30 popular topics in Pliny's letters and a summary of the main characters mentioned in the Letters.
The Art of Pliny's Letters
Title | The Art of Pliny's Letters PDF eBook |
Author | Ilaria Marchesi |
Publisher | |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 2014-05-14 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780511388279 |
Pliny's Statue
Title | Pliny's Statue PDF eBook |
Author | John Henderson |
Publisher | Liverpool University Press |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
John Henderson gives a completely fresh and enthusiastic re-reading of Pliny's Letters, a basic text of the Latin literary canon. Full Latin texts with new translations are given for the key texts studied.
Pliny the Younger: 'Epistles'
Title | Pliny the Younger: 'Epistles' PDF eBook |
Author | Pliny the Younger |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 343 |
Release | 2013-11-21 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 1107006899 |
The first modern literary commentary on Pliny the Younger's Epistles II, essential reading for students and scholars of Roman literature.
The Letters of Pliny the Consul
Title | The Letters of Pliny the Consul PDF eBook |
Author | Pliny (the Younger.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 1747 |
Genre | Authors, Latin |
ISBN |
The Ancient Art of Persuasion across Genres and Topics
Title | The Ancient Art of Persuasion across Genres and Topics PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 424 |
Release | 2019-11-04 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9004412557 |
This is an original collection of essays that contribute to a developing appreciation of persuasion across ancient genres (mainly oratory, historiography, poetry) and a wide diversity of interdisciplinary topics (performance, language, style, emotions, gender, argumentation and narrative, politics).