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Now and Rome : Lucan and Vergil as Theorists of Politics and Space.
Now and Rome is about the way that sovereign power regulates the movement of information and the movement of bodies through space and time. Through a series of readings of three key Latin literary texts alongside six contemporary cultural theorists, Ika Willis argues for an understanding of sovereig...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2010.
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| Colección: | Continuum studies in classical reception.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Now and Rome is about the way that sovereign power regulates the movement of information and the movement of bodies through space and time. Through a series of readings of three key Latin literary texts alongside six contemporary cultural theorists, Ika Willis argues for an understanding of sovereignty as a system which enforces certain rules for legibility, transmission and circulation on both information and bodies, redefining the relationship between the ''virtual'' and the ''material''. This book is both innovative and important in that it brings together several key strands in recent thi. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (197 pages) |
| ISBN: | 1441120513 9781441120519 1441170022 9781441170026 9781441196262 1441196269 |