Pliny the Book-Maker

Betting on Posterity in the Epistles
Herausgeber: Marchesi, Ilaria

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Produktbeschreibung

The studies collected in this volume address Pliny's complex self-editorial strategies, ultimately suggesting that his work contributed to the creation of the literary-historical concept of posterity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 142mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780198729464
• ISBN-10: 0198729464
• Artikelnr.: 47866036

Autorenporträt

Ilaria Marchesi is Associate Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Hofstra University. Her research interests range from Latin Satire to Roman Epistolography, and she is currently working on the satirical aspects in Martial's epigrams. She is the author of The Art of Pliny's Letters: A Poetics of Allusion in the Private Correspondence (2008).

Inhaltsangabe

* List of Contributors
* Introduction
* 1: John Bodel: The Publication of Pliny's Letters
* 2: Christopher Whitton: Grand Designs/Unrolling Epistles 2
* 3: Ruth Morello: Pliny Book 8: Two Viewpoints and the Pedestrian
Reader
* 4: Roy Gibson: Not Dark Yet...: Reading to the End of Pliny's
Nine-Book Collection
* 5: Ilaria Marchesi: Uncluttered Spaces, Unlittered Texts: Pliny's
Villas as Editorial Places
* References
* Index