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<p>There has long been vital interest in the ways that texts affect each other—through translation, imitation, parody, and other forms of emulation and subversion. Throughout the last two millennia, the Virgilian text has created its own intertextual heritage, persisting in the works of Eliot, Frost, Lowell, and Heaney. Richard F. Thomas's new volume demonstrates that such control and manipulation of the inherited tradition is to be found with great intensity in the very author who, in turn, created his own complex tradition.<br> The articles and notes included in this volume have been selected for their diachronic aspect in addition to the synchronic status they had in their original context. Dealing with the intricate ways in which Virgil, and in the introductory chapter his predecessor Catullus, manipulated and appropriated their inherited Greek and Roman literary tradition, this book presents a coherent profile, through these detailed studies, of the mechanics of one of the most dynamic periods in the literary history of any culture.<br> Richard Thomas—one of the most important voices in Latin literary studies today—shows little anxiety about objections to authorial intentional

Author

Thomas, Richard Felstead

Publisher

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780472108978

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Poetry