Writing Rome: Textual Approaches To The City - Couverture souple

Edwards, Catharine

 
9780521559522: Writing Rome: Textual Approaches To The City
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ISBN 10 : 0521559529 ISBN 13 : 9780521559522
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1996

Synopsis

The city of Rome is built not only of bricks and marble but also of the words of its writers. For the ancient inhabitant or visitor, the buildings of Rome, the public spaces of the city, were crowded with meanings and associations. These meanings were generated partly through activities associated with particular places, but Rome also took on meanings from literature written about the city: stories of its foundation, praise of its splendid buildings, laments composed by those obliged to leave it. Ancient writers made use of the city to explore the complexities of Roman history, power and identity. This book aims to chart selected aspects of Rome's resonance in literature and the literary resonance of Rome. A wide range of texts are explored, from later periods as well as from antiquity, since, as the author hopes to show, Gibbon, Goethe and others can be revealing guides to the literary topography of ancient Rome.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The city of Rome is built not only of bricks and marble but also of the words of its writers. For the ancient inhabitant or visitor, the buildings of Rome, the public spaces of the city, were crowded with meanings and associations. These meanings were generated partly through activities associated with particular places, but Rome also took on meanings from literature written about the city: stories of its foundation, praise of its splendid buildings, laments composed by those obliged to leave it. Ancient writers made use of the city to explore the complexities of Roman history, power and identity. This book aims to chart selected aspects of Rome's resonance in literature and the literary resonance of Rome. A wide range of texts are explored, from later periods as well as from antiquity, since, as the author hopes to show, Gibbon, Goethe and others can be revealing guides to the literary topography of ancient Rome.

Revue de presse

"...[a] rich volume..." New York Sun

"...this stimulating book.... ...led me to think in fresh ways about the peculiar dynamic of Roman literature...." Lee T. Pearcy, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

"...this stimulating book....led me to think in fresh ways about the peculiar dynamic of Roman literature in which global assertations are intimately connected to specific persons and places." Lee T. Pearcy, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
1996
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0521559529
ISBN 13 
9780521559522
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
164
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9780521550802: Writing Rome: Textual Approaches to the City

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0521550807 ISBN 13 :  9780521550802
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1996
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