Roman Literary Cultures - Domestic Politics, Revolutionary Poetics, Civic Spectacle (Hardcover)

Drawing on the historicizing turn in Latin literary scholarship, Roman Literary Cultures combines new critical methods with traditional analysis across four hundred years of Latin literature, from mid-republican Rome in the second century BC to the Second Sophistic in the second century AD. The contributors explore Latin texts both famous and obscure, from Roman drama and Menippean satire through Latin elegies, epics, and novels to letters issued by Roman emperors and compilations of laws. Each of the essays in this volume combines close reading of Latin literary texts with historical and cultural contextualization, making the collection an accessible and engaging combination of formalist criticism and historicist exegesis that attends to the many ways in which classical Latin literature participated in ancient Roman civic debates.

General

Imprint:	University of Toronto Press
Country of origin:	Canada
Series:	Phoenix Supplementary Volumes, 55
Release date:	May 2016
First published:	2016
Editors:	Alison Keith • Jonathan Edmondson
Dimensions:	235 x 165 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	368
ISBN-13:	978-1-4426-2967-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literary & linguistic reference works > Literary reference works Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General
LSN:	1-4426-2967-3
Barcode:	9781442629677

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