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Latin Language and Latin Culture: From Ancient to Modern Times
Farrell, Joseph
Descrizione Ristampa / Reprint 2002 - Brossura editoriale di xiii-148 pagine. Copia in condizioni pari al nuovo -- The Latin language is popularly imagined in a number of specific ways: as a masculine language, an imperial language, a classical language, a dead language. This book considers the sources of these metaphors and analyses their effect on how Latin literature is read. It argues that these metaphors have become idées fixes not only in the popular imagination but in the formation of Latin studies as a professional discipline. By reading with and more commonly against these metaphors, the book offers a different view of Latin as a language and as a vehicle for cultural practice. The argument ranges over a variety of texts in Latin and texts about Latin produced by many different sorts of writers from antiquity to the twentieth century.
Categoria: Classici Greci e Latini
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Edito da: Cambridge University Press () anno 2002
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Dimensione: 20.5
ISBN: 9780521776639
Prezzo: € 24.00

