Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9780521776639 |
| ISBN10: | 0521776635 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| No. of pages: | 164 pages |
| Size: | 197x130x11 mm |
| Weight: | 200 g |
| Language: | English |
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Category:
History of literature
Linguistics in general, dictionaries
Classical philology
English language and literature
Other foreign languages
History of literature (charity campaign)
Linguistics in general, dictionaries (charity campaign)
Classical philology (charity campaign)
English language and literature (charity campaign)
Other foreign languages (charity campaign)
Latin Language and Latin Culture
From Ancient to Modern Times
Series:
Roman Literature and its Contexts;
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date of Publication: 15 February 2001
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Short description:
A examination of stereotypical ideas about Latin and their effect on how Latin literature is read.
Long 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 id&&&233;es 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.
'... fresh and stimulating look at the roles of Latin in European culture and imagination ...'. Journal of Roman Studies
'... fresh and stimulating look at the roles of Latin in European culture and imagination ...'. Journal of Roman Studies
Table of Contents:
1. The nature of Latin culture; 2. The poverty of our ancestral speech; 3. The gender of Latin; 4. The life-cycle of dead languages; 5. The voices of Latin culture.
