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Record Nr.

UNISA996217894403316

Autore

Gurd Sean Alexander <1973->

Titolo

Work in progress [[electronic resource] ] : Literary Revision as Social Performance in Ancient Rome / / Sean Alexander Gurd

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, c2012

ISBN

0-19-020871-6

1-283-42750-8

9786613427502

0-19-983752-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (180 p.)

Collana

American classical studies ; ; v. 57

Disciplina

870.9

870.9/001

Soggetti

Latin literature - History and criticism

Greek literature - History and criticism

Authorship - Social aspects - Rome

Authorship - Social aspects - Greece

Authorship - Collaboration

Editing

Transmission of texts - Rome

Transmission of texts - Greece

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [129]-164) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on Abbreviations and Titles; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Isocrates, Plato, and Quintilian: Revision, Pedagogy, and the Formation of Selves; Chapter 3 Cicero: Collective Revision and a Literary Republic; Chapter 4 Horace: Revision, Ridicule, and Censorship; Chapter 5 Pliny the Younger: Genetic and General Publics; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Index; A; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z

Sommario/riassunto

Work in Progress offers an in-depth study of the role of literary revision in the compositional practices and representational strategies of Roman authors at the end of the republic and the beginning of the principate.



It focuses on Cicero, Horace, Quintilian, Martial, and Pliny the Younger, but also offers discussions of Isocrates, Plato, and Hellenistic poetry. The book's central argument is that revision made textuality into a medium of social exchange. Revisions were not always made by authors working alone: often, they were the result of conversations between an author and friends or lite