Genres and Readers: Lucretius, Love Elegy, Pliny's Encyclopedia
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In this newly translated work, Italy's leading Latinist brings together five of his most stimulating essays on the convergence of poetics and philosophy in Latin literature. Writing on Lucretius's De rerum natura, Conte shows how reader-response criticism, genre theory, and literary history work together to illuminate a great poem. His study of Ovid's Remedia amoris broadens the definition of Ovidian irony to reveal the work as both the fullest culmination of the playful rhetoric of elegy and its inevitable end. In an essay on the Encyclopedia of Pliny the Elder, Conte offers a lively and wide-ranging examination of the Roman mind and Roman views of the world-order. And in two final essays Conte addresses central issues in contemporary literary theory.
Review
"An honest book honestly presented... I put it down at last with immense respect for Professor Conte's knowledge and acumen." -- Sander M. Goldberg, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
"Five essays... reflect the growing contrality of the reader in analyzing literature." -- Reference and Research Books News
About the Author
Gian Biagio Conte is professor of Latin literature in the Department of Classical Philology at the University of Pisa, Italy.
In this newly translated work, Italy's leading Latinist brings together five of his most stimulating essays on the convergence of poetics and philosophy in Latin literature. Writing on Lucretius's De rerum natura, Conte shows how reader-response criticism, genre theory, and literary history work together to illuminate a great poem. His study of Ovid's Remedia amoris broadens the definition of Ovidian irony to reveal the work as both the fullest culmination of the playful rhetoric of elegy and its inevitable end. In an essay on the Encyclopedia of Pliny the Elder, Conte offers a lively and wide-ranging examination of the Roman mind and Roman views of the world-order. And in two final essays Conte addresses central issues in contemporary literary theory.
Review
"An honest book honestly presented... I put it down at last with immense respect for Professor Conte's knowledge and acumen." -- Sander M. Goldberg, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
"Five essays... reflect the growing contrality of the reader in analyzing literature." -- Reference and Research Books News
About the Author
Gian Biagio Conte is professor of Latin literature in the Department of Classical Philology at the University of Pisa, Italy.
LUBRICATION AND LUBRICANTSAUTOMOBILES_LUBRICATIONOVID, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.LUCRETIUS CARUS, TITUSPLINY, THE ELDERLATIN LITERATURE_HISTORY AND CRITICISM
RELEASED1993
PUBLISHERThe Johns Hopkins University Press
LENGTH216
LANGUAGEEN
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Italian latinist (1941-)
Genres and Readers: Lucretius, Love Elegy, Pliny's Encyclopedia
by Professor Gian Biagio Conte
Product Description
In this newly translated work, Italy's leading Latinist brings together five of his most stimulating essays on the convergence of poetics and philosophy in Latin literature. Writing on Lucretius's De rerum natura, Conte shows how reader-response criticism, genre theory, and literary history work together to illuminate a great poem. His study of Ovid's Remedia amoris broadens the definition of Ovidian irony to reveal the work as both the fullest culmination of the playful rhetoric of elegy and its inevitable end. In an essay on the Encyclopedia of Pliny the Elder, Conte offers a lively and wide-ranging examination of the Roman mind and Roman views of the world-order. And in two final essays Conte addresses central issues in contemporary literary theory.
Review
"An honest book honestly presented... I put it down at last with immense respect for Professor Conte's knowledge and acumen." -- Sander M. Goldberg, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
"Five essays... reflect the growing contrality of the reader in analyzing literature." -- Reference and Research Books News
About the Author
Gian Biagio Conte is professor of Latin literature in the Department of Classical Philology at the University of Pisa, Italy.
In this newly translated work, Italy's leading Latinist brings together five of his most stimulating essays on the convergence of poetics and philosophy in Latin literature. Writing on Lucretius's De rerum natura, Conte shows how reader-response criticism, genre theory, and literary history work together to illuminate a great poem. His study of Ovid's Remedia amoris broadens the definition of Ovidian irony to reveal the work as both the fullest culmination of the playful rhetoric of elegy and its inevitable end. In an essay on the Encyclopedia of Pliny the Elder, Conte offers a lively and wide-ranging examination of the Roman mind and Roman views of the world-order. And in two final essays Conte addresses central issues in contemporary literary theory.
Review
"An honest book honestly presented... I put it down at last with immense respect for Professor Conte's knowledge and acumen." -- Sander M. Goldberg, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
"Five essays... reflect the growing contrality of the reader in analyzing literature." -- Reference and Research Books News
About the Author
Gian Biagio Conte is professor of Latin literature in the Department of Classical Philology at the University of Pisa, Italy.
LUBRICATION AND LUBRICANTSAUTOMOBILES_LUBRICATIONOVID, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.LUCRETIUS CARUS, TITUSPLINY, THE ELDERLATIN LITERATURE_HISTORY AND CRITICISMBOOKS AND READINGRHETORIC, ANCIENT
RELEASED1993
PUBLISHERThe Johns Hopkins University Press
LENGTH216
LANGUAGEEN
Italian latinist (1941-)
