| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 206 pages) : illustrations (black and white), 1 map (black and white) |
| Summary |
Empire of Letters studies representations of texts and media in Roman authors from Lucretius to Ovid (c. 55 BCE-15 CE) in order to demonstrate how ancient writers conceived of the world, their work, and their own identities through material forms of writing. Drawing together methods of interpretation from a wide variety of fields (including Greek and Latin philology, epigraphy, papyrology, manuscript studies, literary criticism, media theory, and book history) and uniting close readings of major authors with the careful analysis of the physical forms inhabited by ancient texts (papyrus bookrolls, waxed tablets, and monumental inscriptions in stone and bronze), Empire of Letters provides a new model for understanding the history of the book in antiquity |
| Notes |
Previously issued in print: 2019 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Audience |
Specialized |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Latin literature -- History and criticism
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Writing in literature.
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Writing -- Rome
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Latin literature
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Writing
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Writing in literature
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Rome (Empire)
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780190915438 |
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0190915439 |
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