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Author:   Sebastian Matzner (King's College London) ,  Stephen Harrison (Corpus Christi College Oxford)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.40cm
Weight:   0.538kg
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9780198814061

ISBN 10:   0198814062
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   22 November 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Frontmatter Note on Abbreviations List of Contributors 0: Sebastian Matzner: Introduction: Latin Literature's Complex Inferiorities 1: William Fitzgerald: Claiming Inferiority: Weakness into Strength 2: Sebastian Matzner: How Do You Solve a Problem like Horace? On Roman Philhellenism and Postcolonial Critique 3: Amy Richlin: Blackface and Drag in the Palliata 4: Jean-Claude Julhe: Social Inferiority and Poetic Inferiority - Martial's Revenge in his Epigrams: A Commentary on Martial 5.13 5: Tom Geue: Drawing Blanks: The Pale Shades of 'Phaedrus' and 'Juvenal' 6: Victoria Rimell: The Creative Superiority of Self-Reproach: Horace's Ars Poetica 7: Ellen O'Gorman: 'The Noise, and the People': Popular clamor and Political Discourse in Latin Historiography 8: Dunstan Lowe: Loud and Proud: The Voice of the praeco in Roman Love-Elegy 9: Stephen Harrison: Hidden Voices: Homoerotic Colour in Horace's Odes 10: G. O. Hutchinson: On Not Being Beautiful 11: Vassiliki Panoussi: From Adultery to Incest: Messalina and Agrippina as Sexual Aggressors in Tacitus' Annals 12: Shadi Bartsch: The Aeneid as 'Weaker Text' and Fulgentius' Radical Hermeneutics 13: Philip Hardie: Cowherds and Saints: Paulinus of Nola Carmen 18 Endmatter References General Index Index Locorum

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This is a surprising and fascinating book ... the book is admirably proof-read and produced. * John Godwin, Classics for All *

Author Information

Sebastian Matzner is Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature at King's College London. His research focuses on interactions between ancient and modern literature and thought, especially in the fields of poetics and rhetoric, literary and critical theory, history of sexualities, LGBTQ studies, and traditions of classicism. He has published several articles and book chapters in these fields and is the author of Rethinking Metonymy: Literary Theory and Poetic Practice from Pindar to Jakobson (OUP, 2016) as well as co-editor of a forthcoming OUP volume entitled Metalepsis: Ancient Texts, New Perspectives (with Gail Trimble). Stephen Harrison is Professor of Latin Literature at the University of Oxford, and Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Corpus Christi College. His main research and teaching interests are in Latin literature and its reception. He has written monographs on Vergil, Horace, and Apuleius, and has edited, co-edited, or co-authored more than twenty books on Vergil, Horace, the Roman novel, Classics and literary theory, and Latin literature in general, as well as on the reception of classical literature. His recent publications include Victorian Horace: Classics and Class (Bloomsbury, 2017) and a commentary on Horace Odes 2 (CUP, 2017).

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