The art of Pliny's letters : a poetics of allusion in the private correspondence /

In this book on intertextuality in Pliny the Younger, Professor Marchesi invites an alternative reading of Pliny's collection of private epistles: the letters are examined as the product of an authorial strategy controlling both the rhetorical fabric of individual units and their arrangement in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Marchesi, Ilaria
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Temas:
Pliny, > the Younger > Correspondence.
Pliny, > the Younger > Criticism and interpretation.
Pliny, > the Younger.
Plinius Caecilius Secundus, Gaius > 61-114 > Epistulae
Plinius Secundus, Gaius > 23-79
Plinius Secundus, Gaius.
Allusions in literature.
Allusions dans la littérature.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Latin.
Anspielung
Briefsammlung
Latin.
Personal correspondence.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • The semiotics of structure
  • Sed quid ego tam gloriose? Pliny's choice of poetics
  • The importance of being Secundus: Tacitus' voice in Pliny's letters
  • Storming historiography: Pliny's voice in Tacitus' texts
  • Overcoming Ciceronian anxiety: Pliny's niche/nike in literary history
  • From dawn till dusk: four notes in lieu of a conclusion
  • Appendix to Chapter 5.

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