Work in progress : literary revision as social performance in ancient Rome /
Work in Progress offers an in-depth study of the role of literary revision in the compositional practices and representational strategies of Roman authors at the end of the republic and the beginning of the principate. It focuses on Cicero, Horace, Quintilian, Martial, and Pliny the Younger, but als...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2012.
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| Series: | American classical studies ;
no. 57. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Work in Progress offers an in-depth study of the role of literary revision in the compositional practices and representational strategies of Roman authors at the end of the republic and the beginning of the principate. It focuses on Cicero, Horace, Quintilian, Martial, and Pliny the Younger, but also offers discussions of Isocrates, Plato, and Hellenistic poetry. The book's central argument is that revision made textuality into a medium of social exchange. Revisions were not always made by authors working alone: often, they were the result of conversations between an author and friends or lite. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (167 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-164) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199837526 019983752X 9780199919505 019991950X 9781283427500 1283427508 |