Latin Language and Latin Culture
From Ancient to Modern Times
Series: Roman Literature and its Contexts;
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 15 February 2001
- ISBN 9780521776639
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages164 pages
- Size 197x130x11 mm
- Weight 200 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
A examination of stereotypical ideas about Latin and their effect on how Latin literature is read.
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The Latin language is popularly imagined in a number of specific ways: as a masculine language, an imperial language, a classical language, a dead language. This book considers the sources of these metaphors and analyses their effect on how Latin literature is read. It argues that these metaphors have become id&&&233;es fixes not only in the popular imagination but in the formation of Latin studies as a professional discipline. By reading with and more commonly against these metaphors, the book offers a different view of Latin as a language and as a vehicle for cultural practice. The argument ranges over a variety of texts in Latin and texts about Latin produced by many different sorts of writers from antiquity to the twentieth century.
'... fresh and stimulating look at the roles of Latin in European culture and imagination ...'. Journal of Roman Studies
Table of Contents:
1. The nature of Latin culture; 2. The poverty of our ancestral speech; 3. The gender of Latin; 4. The life-cycle of dead languages; 5. The voices of Latin culture.
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