The sites of Rome [[electronic resource] ] : time, space, memory / / edited by David H. J. Larmour and Diana Spencer

• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (453 p.)
• Disciplina: 945/.632
• Soggetto topico: Latin literature - History and criticism
• Soggetto geografico: Rome (Italy) In literature; Rome (Italy) History Miscellanea; Rome (Italy) In motion pictures
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: LarmourDavid H. J <1959-> (David Henry James) SpencerDiana <1969->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [385]-418) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: A collection of essays exploring how the visible components of Rome - 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The sites of Rome
• ISBN: 1-281-14963-2; 9786611149635; 0-19-152719-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910451345003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II