Allusion and Intertext
Dynamics of Appropriation in Roman Poetry

This fascinating 1998 book examines how the poets of classical Rome found artistic inspiration in the words and themes of their poetic predecessors.

Stephen Hinds (Author)

9780521571869, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 29 January 1998

172 pages
20.6 x 13.6 x 1.5 cm, 0.3 kg

'Like the other volumes in the series, Hinds' Allusion and Intertext and Feeney's Literature and Religion at Rome are well written and well edited brief introductions to a significant area of scholarly research in Latin literature, designed simultaneously to incorporate and explain recent scholarship in the field and to serve as a protreptic to others.' Phoenix

The study of the deliberate allusion by one author to the words of a previous author has long been central to Latin philology. However, literary Romanists have been diffident about situating such work within the more spacious inquiries into intertextuality now current. This 1998 book represents an attempt to find (or recover) some space for the study of allusion - as a project of continuing vitality - within an excitingly enlarged universe of intertexts. It combines traditional classical approaches with modern literary-theoretical ways of thinking, and offers attentive close readings, innovative perspectives on literary history, and theoretical sophistication of argument. Like other volumes in the series it is among the most broadly conceived short books on Roman literature to be published in recent years.

Preface
List of abbreviations
1. Reflexivity: allusion and self-annotation
2. Interpretability: beyond philological fundamentalism
3. Diachrony: literary history and its narratives
4. Repetition and change
5. Tradition and self-fashioning
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval [DSBB], Literary theory [DSA]