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Classical literary careers and their reception /

"This is a wide-ranging collection of essays on ancient Roman literary careers and their reception in later European literature, with contributions by leading experts. Starting from the three major Roman models for constructing a literary career - Virgil (the rota Vergiliana), Horace and Ovid -...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hardie, Philip R., Moore, Helen (Helen Dale)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction: literary careers
  • classical models and their receptions / Philip Hardie and Helen Moore
  • 1. Some Virgilian unities / Michael C.J. Putnam
  • 2. There and back again: Horace's poetic career / Stephen Harrison
  • 3. The Ovidian career model: Ovid, Gallus, Apuleius, Boccaccio / Alessandro Barchiesi and Philip Hardie
  • 4. An elegist's career: from Cynthia to Cornelia / Stephen Heyworth
  • 5. Persona and satiric career in Juvenal / Catherine Keane
  • 6. The indistinct literary careers of Cicero and Pliny the Younger / Roy Gibson and Catherine Steel
  • 7. Re-inventing Virgil's wheel: the poet and his work from Dante to Petrarch / Andrew Laird
  • 8. Did Shakespeare have a literary career? / Patrick Cheney
  • 9. New spins on old rotas: Virgil, Ovid, Milton / Maggie Kilgour
  • 10. Bookburning and the poetic deathbed: the legacy of Virgil / Nita Krevans
  • 11. Literary afterlives: metempsychosis from Ennius to Jorge Luis Borges / Stuart Gillespie
  • 12. 'Mirrored doubles': Andrew Marvell, the remaking of poetry and the poet's career / Nigel Smith
  • 13. Dryden and the complete career / Raphael Lyne
  • 14. Goethe's elegiac sabbatical / Joseph Farrell
  • 15. Wordsworth's career prospects: 'peculiar language' and public epigraphs / Nicola Trott
  • Epilogue. inventing a life
  • a personal view of literary careers / Lawrence Lipking.