Latin Language and Latin Culture: From Ancient to Modern Times
Joseph Farrell
The Latin language is popularly imagined in a number of specific ways: as a masculine language, an imperial language, a classical language, a dead language. This book considers the sources of these metaphors and analyzes their effect on how Latin literature is read. By reading with and more commonly against these metaphors, the book offers a different view of Latin as a language and as a vehicle for cultural practice. The argument ranges over a variety of texts in Latin and texts about Latin from antiquity to the twentieth century.
Kategori:
Tahun:
2001
Penerbit:
Cambridge University Press
Bahasa:
english
Halaman:
164
ISBN 10:
0511040814
ISBN 13:
9780521776639
Nama siri:
Roman Literature and its Contexts
Fail:
PDF, 574 KB
IPFS:
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english, 2001