Title: Redeeming the text : Latin poetry and the hermeneutics of reception /
Authors: Martindale, Charles.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Year: 1993
Subjects: Latin poetry History and criticism Theory, etc.; Reader-response criticism.; Hermeneutics.; Rome In literature.
Abstract: This book applies some of the procedures of modern critical theory to the interpretation of Latin poetry. The author argues for an approach that sees the meaning of a text as always and necessarily involved in the process of 'reception, ' that is the way it has been read and interpreted from the time of its composition down to the present day. A study of its reception-history facilitates novel and more profitable ways of reading. He illustrates his approach with exemplary readings of Virgil, Ovid, Horace and Lucan.
Contents: List of plates -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Five concepts in search of an author : suite -- 2. Rereading Virgil : divertimento -- 3. Rereading Ovid and Lucan : cadenzas -- 4. Translation as rereading : symphony in three movements -- Postscript : redeeming the text, or a lover's discourse -- Bibliography -- Index of names.