Intertextuality and the Reading of Roman Poetry

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-8018-7741-4
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 371 g

How can we explain the process by which a literary text refers to another text? For the past decade and a half, intertextuality has been a central concern of scholars and readers of Roman poetry. In Intertextuality and the Reading of Roman Poetry, Lowell Edmunds proceeds from such fundamental concepts as "author," "text," and "reader," which he then applies to passages from Vergil, Horace, Ovid, and Catullus. Edmunds combines close readings of poems with analysis of recent theoretical models to argue that allusion has no linguistic or semiotic basis: there is nothing in addition to the alluding words that causes the allusion or the reference to be made. Intertextuality is a matter of reading.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Edmunds, Lowell

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1. Text
Chapter 2. Poet
Chapter 3. Reader
Chapter 4. Persona
Chapter 5. Addressee: A Dialogue
Chapter 6. Possible Worlds
Chapter 7. Reading in Rome, First Century B.C.E.
Chapter 8. Intertextuality: Terms and Theory
Conclusion
Works Cited
Index of Ancient Citations
General Index

Über Autor(innen)

Edmunds, Lowell
Lowell Edmunds is an emeritus professor of classics at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. His books include Intertextuality and the Reading of Roman Poetry and Poet, Public, and Performance in Ancient Greece, both published by Johns Hopkins.

Lowell Edmunds is a professor of classics at Rutgers University. His many books include Approaches to Greek Myth; Oedipus: The Ancient Legend and Its Later Analogues; and Poet, Public, and Performance in Ancient Greece all available in paperback from Johns Hopkins.