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Poetic autonomy in Ancient Rome /

In this book Luke Roman offers a major new approach to the study of ancient Roman poetry. A key term in the modern interpretation of art and literature, 'aesthetic autonomy' refers to the idea that the work of art belongs to a realm of its own, separate from ordinary activities and detache...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Roman, Luke (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford, OX : Oxford University Press, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Autonomy ancient and modern
  • First-person poetry and the autonomist turn: Lucilius, Catullus, and Cicero's Consulatus suus
  • Autarky, withdrawal, confinement: the autonomist niche in early Augustan poetry (ca. 39 BC-25 BC)
  • The expansion of autonomy: Augustan poetry (ca. 25 BC-AD 17)
  • Materialities of use and subordination: the challenge of the autonomist legacy
  • Conclusion: poetry and other 'games'.