The rhetoric of the Roman fake : Latin pseudepigrapha in context /
"Previous scholarship on classical pseudepigrapha has generally aimed at proving issues of attribution and dating of individual works, with little or no attention paid to the texts as literary artefacts. Instead, this book looks at Latin fakes as sophisticated products of a literary culture in...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Summary: | "Previous scholarship on classical pseudepigrapha has generally aimed at proving issues of attribution and dating of individual works, with little or no attention paid to the texts as literary artefacts. Instead, this book looks at Latin fakes as sophisticated products of a literary culture in which collaborative practices of supplementation, recasting and role-play were the absolute cornerstones of rhetorical education and literary practice. Texts such as the Catalepton, the Consolatio ad Liviam and the Panegyricus Messallae thus illuminate the strategies whereby Imperial audiences received and interrogated canonical texts and are here explored as key moments in the Imperial reception of Augustan authors such as Virgil, Ovid and Tibullus. The study of the rhetoric of these creative supplements irreverently mingling truth and fiction reveals much not only about the neighbouring concepts of fiction, authenticity and reality, but also about the tacit assumptions by which the latter are employed in literary criticism"-- In-depth analysis of Roman literary fakes offering new insights into the creative dynamics of spurious literature. |
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| Item Description: | EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 311 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-289) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781139554183 1139554182 9786613922885 6613922889 9781139549226 1139549227 9780511732331 0511732333 9781139551724 1139551728 9781107527461 1107527465 1139564056 9781139564052 1139887211 9781139887212 1283610434 9781283610438 1139550470 9781139550475 |
