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Titolo |
The sites of Rome [[electronic resource] ] : time, space, memory / / edited by David H. J. Larmour and Diana Spencer |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-14963-2 |
9786611149635 |
0-19-152719-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (453 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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LarmourDavid H. J <1959-> (David Henry James) |
SpencerDiana <1969-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Latin literature - History and criticism |
Electronic books. |
Rome (Italy) In literature |
Rome (Italy) History Miscellanea |
Rome (Italy) In motion pictures |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [385]-418) and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction : Roma, recepta : a topography of the imagination / David H.J. Larmour and Diana Spencer -- Rome at a gallop : Livy, on not gazing, jumping, or toppling into the void / Diana Spencer -- 'In the name of the father' : Ovid's Theban law / Micaela Janan -- 'I get around' : sadism, desire, and metonymy on the streets of Rome with Horace, Ovid, and Juvenal / Paul Allen Miller -- Holes in the body : sites of abjection in Juvenal's Rome / David H.J. Larmour -- Victim and voyeur : Rome as a character in Tacitus' Histories 3 / Rhiannon Ash -- The gates of Janus : Bakhtin and Plutarch's Roman meta-chronotope / Jason Banta -- Staging Rome : the Renaissance, Rome, and humanism's classical crisis / Jacob Blevins -- Sizing up Rome, or theorizing the overview / Caroline Vout -- Ancient Rome for little comrades : the legacy of classical antiquity in Soviet childrens' literature / Marina Balina -- The sites and sights of Rome in Fellini's films : 'not a human habitation but a psychical entity' / Elena Theodorakopoulos. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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A collection of essays exploring how the visible components of Rome - |
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the hills, the Tiber, the temples, the Forums, the Colosseum, the statues and monuments - operate as, or become, the sites/sights of Rome. The variety of theoretical approaches stimulates fresh thought about Rome's primacy in Western culture. - ;Rome was a building site for much of its history, a city continually reshaped and reconstituted in line with political and cultural change. In later times, the conjunction of ruins and rebuilding lent the cityscape a particularly fascinating character, much exploited by artists and w |
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