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

Martindale, Charles

ISBN 10: 0521427193 / ISBN 13: 9780521427197

Published by Cambridge University Press, 1993

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Redeeming the Text: Latin Poetry and the Hermeneutics of Reception (Roman Literature and its Contexts)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521427193
• ISBN 13: 9780521427197
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 10 ounces

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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.

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.