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Latin in Modern Fiction: Who Says It's a Dead Language?

Latin in Modern Fiction: Who Says It's a Dead Language?

Hoffmann, Henryk

Hardcover

Series: Literary Studies

LatinLiterary CriticismLinguistics

ISBN10: 1622739493
ISBN13: 9781622739493
Publisher: Vernon Pr
Published: Mar 25 2021
Pages: 308
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The goal of this book is to prove that Latin is not a dead language by demonstrating how prevalent and strong it still is in modern Western culture. In order to do so, the author, an English philologist with a long experience as a Latin educator, catalogues, explains and interprets Latin quotations and references in a multitude of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literary works by-primarily-mainstream authors (from Aldous Huxley to Saul Bellow to John Irving), crime/mystery writers (from Raymond Chandler to Elizabeth George to Dennis Lehane) and frontier/western novelists (from Emerson Hough to Larry McMurtry). The three areas of fiction constituting the main scope of the book indicate the author's major interest and preference, as well as the subject matter of his extensive research, both prior and current-the former related to his already published books.

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