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Poetic autonomy in ancient Rome / Luke Roman

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Roman, Luke
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
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Machine generated contents note: Terms and definitions -- Autonomy: a brief history -- Aesthetic autonomy and classical culture -- 1.First-Person Poetry and the Autonomist Turn: Lucilius, Catullus, and Cicero's Consulatus suus -- Introduction -- Lucilius: satire and the self-representational tradition -- Catullus: metaliterary trifles -- Poetry and public life -- Scribam ipse de me: poetry and self-representation -- The worst poet -- Conclusion -- 2.Autarky, Withdrawal, Confinement: The autonomist niche in early Augustan poetry (ca. 39 BC--25 BC) -- Introduction -- Horace's Satires: redefining libertas -- Virgil's pastoral refuge -- Propertius Book 1: autonomy as confinement -- Tibullus Book 1: the ironies of security -- Tibullus and the Panegyricus Messallae: the rhetoric of heteronomy -- Conclusion -- 3.The Expansion of Autonomy: Augustan poetry (ca. 25 BC--AD 17) -- Introduction -- Redefining autonomy in Propertius Books 2--4: the slave's triumph -- Horace's Odes and Epistles: from ludic niche to utilis urbi -- Permanent extremity: Ovid's autonomist poetics -- Conclusion -- 4.Materialities of Use and Subordination: The challenge of the autonomist legacy -- Introduction -- Persius' Satires: autonomy and isolation -- Statius: panegyric, heteronomy, and the first-person tradition -- The poet's prestige -- The villa as site of autonomy -- Poetry, ephemerality, materialism -- Silvae 4 -- Martial's Epigrams: the heteronomous book -- Juvenal: quis locus ingenio? -- Conclusion: Poetry and other `games'.
Summary
Luke Roman argues that poets in ancient Rome employed a distinctive 'rhetoric of autonomy' and represented their poetry as different from other cultural products and social relations. Looking closely at the works of famous Roman poets, he offers fresh insights into ancient literary texts and the dialogue between ancient and modern aesthetics.
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9780191766022 (ebook)
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AVAILABLE ONLINE TO AUTHORIZED PSU USERS.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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