Defining Genre and Gender in Latin Literature
Essays Presented to William S. Anderson on His Seventy-Fifth Birthday
William W Batstone editor Garth Tissol editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Published:14th Jul '05
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The Roman confrontation and assimilation of Greek literature entailed a scrutiny, critique, and adaptation of generic assumptions. This book considers the ways in which major genres – among them comedy, lyric, elegy, epic, and the novel – were redefined to accommodate Roman concerns and the ways in which gender plays a role in generic definition and authorial self-definition. Both of these areas of research have been important to William S. Anderson throughout his career. This collection of essays by his students helps readers to understand the nature of Roman literary self-definition, as it honors Professor Anderson’s own achievements in this field.
«This volume is valuable not only as a tribute to a great editor of Ovid, a master critic of Latin poetry, and a trenchant analyst of drama and satire, but also as a model of the best critical scholarship and gender study of authors like Horace, Propertius, Ovid, Petronius, Martial, and Statius by a superlative collection of Latinists. The contributors to this collection are extending our understanding of Latin literature and refining the critical tools with which we treat it. They stand on the shoulders of their mentor, who notably accomplished the same feats in a previous generation.» (Ward W. Briggs, Jr., Carolina Distinguished Professor of Classics, Louise Fry Scudder Professor of Humanities, University of South Carolina)
ISBN: 9780820478296
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 680g
366 pages
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