Dynamic reading [[electronic resource] ] : studies in the reception of Epicureanism / / edited by Brooke Holmes and W.H. Shearin

• Pubblicazione: New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (398 p.)
• Disciplina: 187
• Soggetto topico: Epicureans (Greek philosophy)
• Altri autori: HolmesBrooke <1976-> ShearinW. H
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contributors""; ""Note on Editions""; ""Introduction: Swerves, Events, and Unexpected Effects""; ""1. Haunting Nepos: Atticus and the Performance of Roman Epicurean Death""; ""2. Epicurusâ€?s Mistresses : Pleasure, Authority, and Gender in the Reception of the Kuriai Doxai in the Second Sophistic""; ""3. Reading for Pleasure: Disaster and Digression in the First Renaissance Commentary on Lucretius""; ""4. Discourse Ex Nihilo : Epicurus and Lucretius in Sixteenth-Century England"" ; ""G""""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""
• Sommario/riassunto: 'Dynamic Reading' examines the reception history of Epicureanism in the West, focusing in particular on the ways in which it has provided conceptual tools for defining how we read and respond to texts, art, and the world more generally.
• Titolo autorizzato: Dynamic reading
• ISBN: 1-280-49983-4; 9786613595065; 0-19-979502-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996197529403316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Classical presences.