The Production of Space in Latin Literature

The Production of Space in Latin Literature

by Efrossini Spentzou and William Fitzgerald
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 22/03/2018

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Recent decades have seen a marked shift in approaches to cultural analysis, with the critical role of location and spatial experience in the formation of the human subject gaining increasing prominence. This volume applies the insights and concerns of the 'spatial turn' to this specifically Roman engagement with space, and explores its representation and manipulation in Latin literature. The terrain covered by the contributions is broad, both temporally (from Catullus to St Augustine) and in terms of genre, with lyric, epic, elegy, satire, epistolography, and historiography all finding their place in discussions that focus mainly on movement and the mobile subject in the experience and making of space. Offering a detailed exploration of Roman engagement with space, the ideological stakes of this engagement, and its intersections with empire, urbanism, identity, ethics, exile, and history, the volume contains a wealth of insights for readers across and beyond the discipline of classical studies: those looking equally for new approaches to ancient texts and authors or to explore the relationship between the materiality of antiquity and its literary aspects will find these discussions illuminating.

ISBN:
9780191080494
9780191080494
Category:
Literary studies: classical
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
22-03-2018
Language:
English
Publisher:
OUP Oxford

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