Speaking Volumes by Alessandro Barchiesi

Speaking Volumes by Alessandro Barchiesi

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This collection of essays by the classicist Alessandro Barchiesi examines Ovid and his 'rationalistic art of illusion' along with intertextuality in Latin literature more generally, and in the wider context of the Graeco-Roman tradition.

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Speaking Volumes by Alessandro Barchiesi

This collection of essays by the classicist Alessandro Barchiesi examines Ovid and his 'rationalistic art of illusion' along with intertextuality in Latin literature more generally, and in the wider context of the Graeco-Roman tradition.
Alessandro Barchiesi is Professor of Latin Literature at the University of Siena/Arezzo. He has lectured or taught abroad at Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge and is currently attached to Stanford. He has published widely on Augustan poetry, Imperial epic and the Roman novel, and is particularly interested in the dialogue between classics and modern critical theory.....
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ISBN 13 9780715630273
ISBN 10 071563027X
Title Speaking Volumes
Author Alessandro Barchiesi
Series Duckworth Classical Essays
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published 2001-09-28
Number of pages 256
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