Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Closure of Space in Roman PoeticsCondition: NewSubtitle: Empire's Inward TurnEAN: 9781107437487ISBN: 9781107437487Publisher: Cambridge University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 11/15/2018Description: This ambitious book investigates a major yet underexplored nexus of themes in Roman cultural history: the evolving tropes of enclosure, retreat and compressed space within an expanding, potentially borderless empire. In Roman writers' exploration of real and symbolic enclosures - caves, corners, villas, bathhouses, the 'prison' of the human body itself - we see the aesthetic, philosophical and political intersecting in fascinating ways, as the machine of empire is recast in tighter and tighter shapes. Victoria Rimell brings ideas and methods from literary theory, cultural studies and philosophy to bear on an extraordinary range of ancient texts rarely studied in juxtaposition, from Horace's Odes, Virgil's Aeneid and Ovid's Ibis, to Seneca's Letters, Statius' Achilleid and Tacitus' Annals. A series of epilogues puts these texts in conceptual dialogue with our own contemporary art world, and emphasizes the role Rome's imagination has played in the history of Western thinking about space, security and dwelling.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 230mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 19mmItem Weight: 500gAuthor: Victoria RimellGenre: Literary CriticismTopic: History, Ancient History, Society & CultureBook Series: W. B. Stanford Memorial LecturesRelease Year: 2018 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: The Closure of Space in Roman Poetics
Title: The Closure of Space in Roman Poetics
Subtitle: Empire's Inward Turn
EAN: 9781107437487
ISBN: 9781107437487
Release Date: 11/15/2018
Release Year: 2018
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Series: W. B. Stanford Memorial Lectures
Book Title: Closure of Space in Roman Poetics : Empire's Inward Turn
Number of Pages: 370 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Topic: General, Poetry, Ancient & Classical
Publication Year: 2018
Item Height: 0.7 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Literary Criticism, Architecture, Literary Collections
Item Weight: 17.6 Oz
Author: Victoria Rimell
Item Length: 9.1 in
Book Series: The W. B. Stanford Memorial Lectures
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
