Inhaltsangabe:
A wide-ranging study of ancient Roman literary careers and their reception in later European literature. The focus is on the three major models of the careers of Virgil, Horace and Ovid, and the ways in which other ancient and post-antique authors respond to these patterns for constructing their own literary careers.
Críticas:
'... one of the best features of the collection is the editors' decision to extend the chronological focus ... This collection is especially interesting as, in addition to the chapters on Latin poetry, there are substantial discussions of Dante, Petrarch, Shakespeare, Milton, Marvell, Dryden, Goethe, and Wordsworth.' Stephen Guy-Bray, Comparative Literature Studies
'... the Roman writers included here are discussed in a most interesting way ... all these articles can be described as offering professionally, yet also entertainingly formulated views on the discussed writer's careers and show how models from classical literature were interpreted and in many cases reinvented.' Tiina Purola, Arctos
'This volume fruitfully applies to aspects of Latin literature and its reception the goals and techniques of 'career criticism', that emergent branch of literary study which asks how a writer's oeuvre shapes or perceives itself as a totality, be it prospectively, concurrently or in retrospect, and whether in relation to its own internal stages of development or in relation to the extra textual circumstances of its production ... a welcome, and very significant, expansion of career studies as a method for Roman literary history, not least because it will doubtless provoke further research in this rich area.' Gareth Williams, The Classical Review
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