About this title: 'Our present appreciation of Greek and Roman literature should be informed and influenced by consideration of what it was originally appreciated for. The past, for all its alienness, affects and changes the present.' The focus of this book - its new perspective - is on the 'receivers' of literature: readers, spectators, and audiences. Six contributors, drawn from both sides of the Atlantic, explore the various and changing interactions between the makers of literature and their audiences or readers from the beginning of the Roman empire to the end of the classical era. The contributors deploy ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 11/15/2001
ISBN-13:9780192893017ISBN:0192893017
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780192893017ISBN:0192893017
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780192893017ISBN:0192893017
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 198x129 mm. This book is printed on demand. (allow 1-2 weeks for printing) (320) this book consists of nine essays by six contributors exploring aspects of literature from the beginning of the roman empire to the end of the classical era. the theme drawing the essays together is that appreciation of roman literature can be informed and influenced by attending to the 'receivers' of the literature, and by consideration of what it was originally appreciated for. (Paperback) read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780192893017ISBN:0192893017
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 2001-11-15
ISBN-13:9780192893017ISBN:0192893017
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: OXFORD UNIV PR
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780192893017ISBN:0192893017
Description: In this volume, we are offered a new perspective on Roman literature, based on the conviction that our present appreciation for it should be informed and influenced by how it was originally perceived. From the beginning of the Roman Empire to the end... read more
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