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Intertextuality and the Reading of Roman Poetry

Intertextuality and the Reading of Roman Poetry

Edmunds, Lowell

Paperback

Ancient History GeneralPoetry CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0801877415
ISBN13: 9780801877414
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: Sep 1 2003
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.51 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

How can we explain the process by which a literary text refers to another text? For the past decade and a half, intertextuality has been a central concern of scholars and readers of Roman poetry. In Intertextuality and the Reading of Roman Poetry, Lowell Edmunds proceeds from such fundamental concepts as author, text, and reader, which he then applies to passages from Vergil, Horace, Ovid, and Catullus. Edmunds combines close readings of poems with analysis of recent theoretical models to argue that allusion has no linguistic or semiotic basis: there is nothing in addition to the alluding words that causes the allusion or the reference to be made. Intertextuality is a matter of reading.

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