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Latin Language and Latin Culture: From Ancient to Modern Times (Roman Literature and its Contexts)

By Joseph Farrell

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2001
ISBN
9780521772235, 0521772230, 0521776635
LCC
PA2061 .F395 2001
Open Library ID
OL21593246M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1193841 bytes)
Series
Roman Literature and its Contexts
Pages
163\163
Topic
History
Time added
2010-08-30 15:18:36

Description

The Latin language is popularly imagined in a number of specific ways: as a masculine language, an imperial language, a classical language, a dead language. This book considers the sources of these metaphors and analyzes their effect on how Latin literature is read. By reading with and more commonly against these metaphors, the book offers a different view of Latin as a language and as a vehicle for cultural practice. The argument ranges over a variety of texts in Latin and texts about Latin from antiquity to the twentieth century.

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