Redeeming the Text - Latin Poetry and the Hermeneutics of Reception (Paperback, New)

This work applies some of the procedures of modern critical theory (in particular reception-theory, deconstruction, theories of dialogue and the hermeneutics associated with the German philosopher Gadamer) to the interpretation of Latin poetry. Charles Martindale argues that we neither can nor should attempt to return to an original meaning for ancient poems, free from later accretions and the processes of appropriation; more traditional approaches to literary enquiry conceal a metaphysics which has been put in question by various anti-foundationalist accounts of the nature of meaning and the relationshop between language and what it describes. From this perspective, the author examines different readings of the poetry of Virgil, Ovid, Horace and Lucan, in order to suggest alternative ways in which those texts might more profitably be read. Finally, he focuses on a key term for such study - translation - and examines the epistemological questions it raises and seeks to circumvent.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Roman Literature and its Contexts
Release date:	December 1992
First published:	1993
Authors:	Charles Martindale
Dimensions:	225 x 138 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	140
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-42719-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Poetry & poets > General
LSN:	0-521-42719-3
Barcode:	9780521427197

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