Defining Genre and Gender in Latin Literature (Lang Classical Studies) [Hardcover]

Garth Tissol (Author), William W. Batstone (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 14, 2005 | ISBN-10: 0820478296 | ISBN-13: 978-0820478296

The Roman confrontation and assimilation of Greek literature entailed a scrutiny, critique, and adaptation of generic assumptions. This book considers the ways in which major genres-among them comedy, lyric, elegy, epic, and the novel-were redefined to accommodate Roman concerns and the ways in which gender plays a role in generic definition and authorial self- definition. Both of these areas of research have been important to William S. Anderson throughout his career. This collection of essays by his students helps readers to understand the nature of Roman literary self-definition, as it honors Professor Anderson's own achievements in this field.

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

This volume is valuable not only as a tribute to a great editor of Ovid, a master critic of Latin poetry, and a trenchant analyst of drama and satire, but also as a model of the best critical scholarship and gender study of authors like Horace, Propertius, Ovid, Petronius, Martial, and Statius by a superlative collection of Latinists. The contributors to this collection are extending our understanding of Latin literature and refining the critical tools with which we treat it. They stand on the shoulders of their mentor, who notably accomplished the same feats in a previous generation.

Ward W. Briggs, Jr. Carolina Distinguished Professor of Classics Louise Fry Scudder Professor of Humanities University of South Carolina

About the Author

William W. Batstone is Associate Professor of Greek and Latin at The Ohio State University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, with a dissertation on Vergil's Georgics He is interested in literature and literary theory and has written on both the prose and poetry of the republic and early empire, including Catullus, Cicero, Propertius, Vergil, and Caesar, and modern theoretical perspectives, including Heidegger, Bakhtin, and Gadamer. He is currently working on a book on Caesar's commentaries on the Civil War.

Garth Tissol, Associate Professor of Classics at Emory University, received his Ph.D. in classics from the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of The Face of Nature: Wit, Narrative, and Cosmic Origins in Ovid's "Metamorphoses" as well as articles on Ovid, Vergil, and Dryden's translations of Latin literature. He is currently working on an edition and commentary on Ovid's Epistulae ex Ponto, Book 1.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 363 pages
• Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing (July 14, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0820478296
• ISBN-13: 978-0820478296
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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