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The Closure of Space in Roman Poetics: Empire's Inward Turn: The W. B. Stanford Memorial Lectures

Autor Victoria Rimell
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 noi 2018
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781107437487
ISBN-10: 1107437482
Pagini: 370
Ilustrații: 4 b/w illus.
Dimensiuni: 152 x 230 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.49 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Seria The W. B. Stanford Memorial Lectures

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Introduction: interior designs; 1. Empire without end: opening, expansion, enclosure; 2. All four corners of the world: Horace's enclaves; 3. Roman philosophy and the house of being: Seneca's Letters; 4. Blood, sweat and fears in the Roman baths; 5. Imperial enclosure, epic spectacle; 6. The homeless problem: exile, entrapment, desire.

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An ambitious analysis of the Roman literary obsession with retreat and closed spaces, in the context of expanding empire.