Roman Constructions
Readings in Postmodern Latin
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 13 January 2000
- ISBN 9780198153092
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages366 pages
- Size 224x146x24 mm
- Weight 552 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Roman Constructions is a collection of studies in Latin literature and literary theory. The twelve pieces touch on many of the concerns of contemporary criticism, and offer a provocative view of the role of classical scholarship in the contemporary world.
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Roman Constructions collects together twelve published and unpublished papers on Latin literature and literary theory from the decade 1989 to 1999. The papers share a common 'postmodern' emphasis on the role of the modern scholar and critic in the construction, rather than recreation, of meaning, and attempt to show how this approach works in detailed readings of a number of Latin authors, above all Vergil. The papers deal with such topics as point of view and focalization, intertextuality, historical contextualization, and closure, and each section is introduced by reflections on recent work in these areas subsequent to the original papers. The work makes a plea for classical scholars to accept their historical situatedness and to give up the pretence of scientific objectivity so that they can play a fuller part in the cultural dialogues of the present.
It's no good pretending that this is just an ordinary academic book. If it were, it would still be an important contribution to Classical Studies ... But Roman Constructions: Readings in postmodern Latin is something more than the sum of its parts.
