Intertextuality and the Reading of Roman Poetry

Intertextuality and the Reading of Roman Poetry

by Lowell Edmunds
ISBN-10:
0801877415
ISBN-13:
9780801877414
Pub. Date:
11/05/2003
Publisher:
Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-10:
0801877415
ISBN-13:
9780801877414
Pub. Date:
11/05/2003
Publisher:
Johns Hopkins University Press
Intertextuality and the Reading of Roman Poetry

Intertextuality and the Reading of Roman Poetry

by Lowell Edmunds

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Overview

How can we explain the process by which a literary text refers to another text? For the past decade and a half, intertextuality has been a central concern of scholars and readers of Roman poetry. In Intertextuality and the Reading of Roman Poetry, Lowell Edmunds proceeds from such fundamental concepts as "author," "text," and "reader," which he then applies to passages from Vergil, Horace, Ovid, and Catullus. Edmunds combines close readings of poems with analysis of recent theoretical models to argue that allusion has no linguistic or semiotic basis: there is nothing in addition to the alluding words that causes the allusion or the reference to be made. Intertextuality is a matter of reading.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780801877414
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 11/05/2003
Edition description: Revised ed.
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.49(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Lowell Edmunds is an emeritus professor of classics at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. His books include Intertextuality and the Reading of Roman Poetry and Poet, Public, and Performance in Ancient Greece, both published by Johns Hopkins.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1. Text
Chapter 2. Poet
Chapter 3. Reader
Chapter 4. Persona
Chapter 5. Addressee: A Dialogue
Chapter 6. Possible Worlds
Chapter 7. Reading in Rome, First Century B.C.E.
Chapter 8. Intertextuality: Terms and Theory
Conclusion
Works Cited
Index of Ancient Citations
General Index

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Ralph Hexter

An original and bold application of theories of intertextuality and readership to Roman poetry. Edmunds solidly engages a vast array of scholarship and criticism, in English, Italian, French, and German.

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An original and bold application of theories of intertextuality and readership to Roman poetry. Edmunds solidly engages a vast array of scholarship and criticism, in English, Italian, French, and German.
—Ralph Hexter, University of California, Berkeley

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