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"In Reading Death in Ancient Rome, Mario Erasmo considers both actual funerary rituals and their literary depictions in epic, elegy, epitaphs, drama, and prose works as a form of participatory theater in which the performers and the depicters of rituals engage in strategies to involve the viewe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Erasmo, Mario
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Griego Antiguo
Latín
Publicado: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2008.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Litterature latine > Histoire et critique.
Mort > Dans la litterature.
Bestattungsritus
Tod > Motiv
Literatur
Brauch
Tod
Mourning customs.
Latin literature.
Funeral rites and ceremonies.
Death in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Deuil > Coutumes > Rome.
Mort dans la litterature.
Latin literature > History and criticism.
Mourning customs > Rome.
Funeral rites and ceremonies > Rome.
Latein.
Römisches Reich
Rome (Empire)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"In Reading Death in Ancient Rome, Mario Erasmo considers both actual funerary rituals and their literary depictions in epic, elegy, epitaphs, drama, and prose works as a form of participatory theater in which the performers and the depicters of rituals engage in strategies to involve the viewer/reader in the ritual process, specifically by invoking and playing on their cultural associations at a number of levels simultaneously. He focuses on the associative reading process-the extent to which literary texts allude to funeral and burial ritual, the narrative role played by the allusion to recreate a fictive version of the ritual, and how the allusion engages readers' knowledge of the ritual or previous literary intertexts." "Such a strategy can advance a range of authorial agendas by inviting readers to read and reread assumptions about both the surrounding Roman culture and earlier literature invoked through intertextual referencing. By (re)defining their relation to the dead, readers assume various roles in an ongoing communion with the departed." "Reading Death in Ancient Rome makes an important and innovative contribution to semiotic theory as applied to classical texts and to the emerging field of mortality studies. It should thus appeal to classicists as well as to advanced undergraduate and graduate students in art history and archeology."--Jacket
Descripción Física:1 online resource (257 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780814271759
Acceso:Open Access

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