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OverviewRecent decades have seen a marked shift in approaches to cultural analysis, with the critical role of location and spatial experience in the formation of the human subject gaining increasing prominence. This volume applies the insights and concerns of the 'spatial turn' to this specifically Roman engagement with space, and explores its representation and manipulation in Latin literature. The terrain covered by the contributions is broad, both temporally (from Catullus to St Augustine) and in terms of genre, with lyric, epic, elegy, satire, epistolography, and historiography all finding their place in discussions that focus mainly on movement and the mobile subject in the experience and making of space. Offering a detailed exploration of Roman engagement with space, the ideological stakes of this engagement, and its intersections with empire, urbanism, identity, ethics, exile, and history, the volume contains a wealth of insights for readers across and beyond the discipline of classical studies: those looking equally for new approaches to ancient texts and authors or to explore the relationship between the materiality of antiquity and its literary aspects will find these discussions illuminating. Full Product DetailsAuthor: William Fitzgerald (Professor of Latin Language and Literature, Professor of Latin Language and Literature, King's College London) , Efrossini Spentzou (Reader in Latin Literature, Reader in Latin Literature, Royal Holloway, University of London)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.70cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 22.30cm Weight: 0.516kg ISBN: 9780198768098ISBN 10: 0198768095 Pages: 310 Publication Date: 22 March 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsFrontmatter List of Contributors 0: William Fitzgerald and Efrossini Spentzou: Introduction 1: Efrossini Spentzou: Propertius' Aberrant Itineraries: Fleeting Moments in the Eternal City 2: Diana Spencer: Varro's Roman Ways: Metastasis and Etymology 3: Jared Hudson: Obviam: The Space of Vehiculation in Latin Literature 4: David H. J. Larmour: Juvenal in the Specular City 5: Maxine Lewis: Gender, Geography, and Genre: Catullus' Constructions of Lesbia in Space and Time 6: William Fitzgerald: The Space of the Poem: Imperial Trajectories in Catullus and Horace 7: Catharine Edwards: On Not Being in Rome: Exile and Displacement in Seneca's Prose 8: Therese Fuhrer: Carthage Rome Milan: 'Lieux de passage' in Augustine's Confessions 9: Shreyaa Bhatt: Exiled in Rome: The Writing of Other Spaces in Tacitus' Annales 10: Richard Alston: The Utopian City in Tacitus' Agricola 11: Victoria Rimell: Rome's Dire Straits: Claustrophobic Seas and imperium sine fundo Endmatter IndexReviewsThis is a valuable contribution to the growing body of scholarship devoted to intersections between Latin literature and Roman space and place. Individually and as a collection, the papers make a compelling case for the incorporation of spatial theory into the philologist's analytical toolkit. * Carolyn MacDonald, Bryn Mawr Classical Review * Author InformationAfter taking a BA in Classics at Oxford (1974) and a PhD in Comparative Literature at Princeton (1980), William Fitzgerald taught for 23 years in the US, at the University of California, San Diego and Berkeley. He returned to the UK in 2003 and taught at Cambridge University until 2007, when he became Professor of Latin Language and Literature at King's College London. He has published books and articles on Latin literature, especially poetry, and on classical reception. Efrossini (Efi) Spentzou studied first for a degree in Philology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, graduating in 1991, before coming to Oxford to study for an MSt and then a PhD in Classics. She was appointed to Royal Holloway in 2000 where she is now Reader in Latin Literature and Classical Reception. She has published on Latin poetry, notably Ovid, the literature and culture of the late first century AD, and on classical reception; her work focuses on the interfaces between literary theory and Classics. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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