Latin language and Latin culture from ancient to modern times / / Joseph Farrell

• Autore: Farrell Joseph <1955->
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, : Cambridge University Press, 2001
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiv, 148 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 870.9
• Soggetto topico: Latin literature - Study and teaching; Latin literature - History and criticism; Latin language
• Note generali: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; CHAPTER 1 The nature of Latin culture; CHAPTER 2 The poverty of our ancestral speech; CHAPTER 3 The gender of Latin; CHAPTER 4 The life cycle of dead languages; CHAPTER 5 The voices of Latin culture; Appendix: Nepos fr. 59 in the edition of Marshall (1977); Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The Latin language is popularly imagined in a number of specific ways: as a masculine language, an imperial language, a classical language, a dead language. This book considers the sources of these metaphors and analyses their effect on how Latin literature is read. It argues that these metaphors have become idées fixes not only in the popular imagination but in the formation of Latin studies as a professional discipline. By reading with and more commonly against these metaphors, the book offers a different view of Latin as a language and as a vehicle for cultural practice. The argument ranges over a variety of texts in Latin and texts about Latin produced by many different sorts of writers from antiquity to the twentieth century.
• Titolo autorizzato: Latin language and Latin culture
• ISBN: 1-107-11961-8; 1-280-42128-2; 0-511-17562-0; 0-511-04081-4; 0-511-15608-1; 0-511-61328-8; 0-511-32353-0; 0-511-04972-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910826642603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Roman literature and its contexts.