Redeeming the Text: Latin Poetry and the Hermeneutics of Reception (Roman Literature and its Contexts) - Softcover

Martindale, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521427193 ISBN 13: 9780521427197

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1993

Synopsis

This book applies some of the procedures of modern critical theory to the interpretation of Latin poetry. The author argues for an approach that sees the meaning of a text as always and necessarily involved in the process of "reception," that is the way it has been read and interpreted from the time of its composition down to the present day. A study of its reception-history facilitates novel and more profitable ways of reading. He illustrates his approach with exemplary readings of Virgil, Ovid, Horace and Lucan.

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Book Description:

Applying modern critical theory to the interpretation of Latin poetry, the author argues for a critical approach wherein the meaning of a text is necessarily involved in the process of "reception"-- as illustrated through exemplary readings of Virgil, Ovid, Horace and Lucan.

Review:

"...Charles Martindale's critical libellus is a fitting companion to the other two books that have so far appeared in the series Roman Literature and its Contexts edited by Denis Feeney and Stephen Hinds. The series' editors cannot be complimented too highly for the bold initiatives they have taken in sponsoring new critical perspectives in a field that, in the past, has been more resistant than responsive to such explorations." New England Classical Newsletter and Journal

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0521427193
• ISBN 13: 9780521427197
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 140