Redeeming the text
Subtitle: Latin poetry and the hermeneutics of reception
By: Charles Martindale.
Series: Roman literature and its contexts
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Cambridge [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 117
Subjects: Latin poetry -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; Reader-response criticism; Rome in literature; Hermeneutics
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 108-113) and index.