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Allusion and Intertext: Dynamics of Appropriation in Roman Poetry (Roman Literature and its Contexts) (edit title/settings)

by Stephen Hinds (Author) (edit contributors)

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This is a book about how the poets of Classical Rome found artistic inspiration in the words and themes of their poetic predecessors. It combines traditional Classical approaches to poetic allusion and imitation with modern literary-theoretical ways of thinking about how texts are used and... read more

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One may usefully identify a mannerism, by no means peculiar to Roman literature but especially well developed in Roman literature, whereby alluding poets exert themselves to draw attention to the fact that they are alluding, and to reflect upon the nature of their allusive activity.

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  1. Stephen Hinds (Author)

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