Latin Language and Latin Culture : From Ancient to Modern Times Paperback / softback
by Joseph (University of Pennsylvania) Farrell
Part of the Roman Literature and its Contexts series
Paperback / softback
Description
The Latin language is popularly imagined in a number of specific ways: as a masculine language, an imperial language, a classical language, a dead language.
This book considers the sources of these metaphors and analyses their effect on how Latin literature is read.
It argues that these metaphors have become idees fixes not only in the popular imagination but in the formation of Latin studies as a professional discipline.
By reading with and more commonly against these metaphors, the book offers a different view of Latin as a language and as a vehicle for cultural practice.
The argument ranges over a variety of texts in Latin and texts about Latin produced by many different sorts of writers from antiquity to the twentieth century.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:164 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:15/02/2001
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- ISBN:9780521776639
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:164 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:15/02/2001
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521776639
