Intertextuality and the Reading of Roman Poetry. - EDMUNDS, L.,
KORTE INHOUD
'Lowell Edmunds has written a book that provides what is expected and appreciated in a theoretical study: the scholarship is extensive and well organized into arguments which are themselves descriptive, provocative, challenging, and supported by a close reading of a variety of selections from Catullus, Horace, Vergil, and Ovid. In the first five chapters, Edmunds discusses various components of poetry - text, poet, reader, persona, addressee. In each, Edmunds discredits textual elements that appear to offer an unchanging, verifiable phenomenon upon which to base and judge intertextual studies. (...) It is in the reader, in hermeneutics, that the text is salvaged from indeterminacy, the reader, that is, who treats the poem as an aesthetic creation with its own (however the reader interprets it) individuality. Already in challenging the boundaries of the text itself and restoring them through a readership, Edmunds has laid the groundwork for the reader-based approach to intertextuality, given full treatment in ...
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2001Uitgever: Johns Hopkins University Press224 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0801877415ISBN-13: 9780801877414Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Baltimore / London, n.d.(>2001). XX,201p. Paperback. [Antiquarian] [Auteur: EDMUNDS, L.,] [Uitgever: Johns Hopkins University Press] [Jaar: 2001] [Titel: Intertextuality and the Reading of Roman Poetry.]
