Intertextuality and the reading of Roman poetry / / Lowell Edmunds

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910822675803321
• Autore: Edmunds Lowell
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2001
• ISBN: 0-8018-7540-4
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (223 p.)
• Disciplina: 871/.0109
• Soggetti: Latin poetry - History and criticism; Authors and readers - Rome; Books and reading - Rome; Intertextuality; Allusions; Rome Intellectual life
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-188) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Text -- Chapter 2 -- Poet -- Chapter 3 -- Reader -- Chapter 4 -- Persona -- Chapter 5 -- Addressee -- Chapter 6 -- Possible Worlds -- Chapter 7 -- Reading in Rome, First Century B.C.E. -- Chapter 8 -- Intertextuality -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index of Ancient Citations -- General Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.