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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      November 2019
      December 2019
      ISBN:
      9781316847879
      9781107180253
      9781316632086
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316847879
      Dimensions:
      (247 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.51kg, 360 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.366kg, 246 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Classical Studies, Classical Studies (General), Classical Literature, English Literature: General Interest
      Series:
      Classics after Antiquity
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Classical Studies, Classical Studies (General), Classical Literature, English Literature: General Interest
    Series:
    Classics after Antiquity
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    Conscious of ancient modes of reading poetry 'for the life', Roman poets encoded versions of their lives into their texts. The result is a body of literature that cries out to be read in terms of lives in reception. Afterlives of the Roman Poets shows how the fictional biographies (or 'biofictions') of its authors have shaped the reception of Latin poetry. From medieval biographies of Ovid inscribed in the margins of his texts to republican readings of Lucan's death in periods of revolution to the 'death of the author' in Hermann Broch's Der Tod des Vergil, the book tells a cultural history of the reception of ancient literature as imagined through the lens of poets' lives. Putting modern life-writing studies and ancient poetry into dialogue, it brings biofictional reception to debates in classics, and puts antiquity and its reception onto the map of modern studies in life-writing.

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    ‘… this book offers a wealth of interesting observations of detail on the medieval, early modern and modern works investigated, as the novel approach of a ‘biofictional’ perspective enables studying these writings from a distinct perspective, leading to new insights and clearer descriptions of previous observations.’

    Gesine Manuwald Source: International Journal of the Classical Tradition

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