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Poetic Autonomy in Ancient Rome (Hardcover)
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Poetic Autonomy in Ancient Rome (Hardcover)
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In Poetic Autonomy in Ancient Rome, Luke Roman offers a major new
approach to the study of ancient Roman poetry. A key term in the
modern interpretation of art and literature, 'aesthetic autonomy'
refers to the idea that the work of art belongs to a realm of its
own, separate from ordinary activities and detached from quotidian
interests. While scholars have often insisted that aesthetic
autonomy is an exclusively modern concept and cannot be applied to
other historical periods, the book argues that poets in ancient
Rome employed a 'rhetoric of autonomy' to define their position
within Roman society and establish the distinctive value of their
work. This study of the Roman rhetoric of poetic autonomy includes
an examination of poetic self-representation in first-person genres
from the late republic to the early empire. Looking closely at the
works of Lucilius, Catullus, Propertius, Horace, Virgil, Tibullus,
Ovid, Statius, Martial, and Juvenal, Poetic Autonomy in Ancient
Rome affords fresh insight into ancient literary texts and
reinvigorates the dialogue between ancient and modern aesthetics.
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