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The production of space in Latin literature / William Fitzgerald and Efrossini Spentzou

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Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Description
1 online resource
Additional Creators
Fitzgerald, William, 1952- and Spentzou, Efrossini
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Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1.Propertius' Aberrant Itineraries: Fleeting Moments in the Eternal City / Efrossini Spentzou -- 2.Varro's Roman Ways: Metastasis and Etymology / Diana Spencer -- 3.Obviam: The Space of Vehiculation in Latin Literature / Jared Hudson -- 4.Juvenal in the Specular City / David H. J. Larmour -- 5.Gender, Geography, and Genre: Catullus' Constructions of Lesbia in Space and Time / Maxine Lewis -- 6.The Space of the Poem: Imperial Trajectories in Catullus and Horace / William Fitzgerald -- 7.On Not Being in Rome: Exile and Displacement in Seneca's Prose / Catharine Edwards -- 8.Carthage---Rome---Milan: `Lieux de passage' in Augustine's Confessions / Therese Fuhrer -- 9.Exiled in Rome: The Writing of Other Spaces in Tacitus' Annales / Shreyaa Bhatt -- 10.The Utopian City in Tacitus' Agricola / Richard Alston -- 11.Rome's Dire Straits: Claustrophobic Seas and imperium sine fundo / Victoria Rimell.
Summary
Recent decades have seen a marked shift in approaches to cultural analysis with the advent of the 'spatial turn' in the humanities and social sciences. This volume applies the insights and approaches of this paradigm to the Roman engagement with space, exploring its representation and manipulation in Latin literature.
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ISBN
9780191821875 (ebook)
Audience Notes
Specialized.
Note
This edition previously issued in print: 2018.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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