The Resource The closure of space in Roman poetics : empire's inward turn, Victoria Rimell
The closure of space in Roman poetics : empire's inward turn, Victoria Rimell
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- Summary
- "This ambitious book investigates a major yet underexplored nexus of themes in Roman cultural history: the evolving tropes of enclosure, retreat and compressed space within expanding, potentially borderless empire. In Roman writers' exploration of real and symbolic enclosures - caves, corners, villas, bathhouses, the 'prison' of the human body itself - we see the aesthetic, philosophical and political intersecting in fascinating ways, as the machine of empire is recast in tighter and tighter shapes. Victoria Rimell brings ideas and methods from literary theory, cultural studies and philosophy to bear on an extraordinary range of ancient texts rarely studied in juxtaposition, from Horace's Odes, Virgil's Aeneid and Ovid's Ibis, to Seneca's Letters, Statius' Achilleid and Tacitus' Annals. A series of epilogues puts these texts in conceptual dialogue with our own contemporary art world, and emphasizes the role Rome's imagination has played in the history of Western thinking about space, security and dwelling"--
- Language
- eng
- Label
- The closure of space in Roman poetics : empire's inward turn
- Title
- The closure of space in Roman poetics
- Title remainder
- empire's inward turn
- Statement of responsibility
- Victoria Rimell
- Subject
-
- Rome (Empire)
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Literature and society -- Rome
- Literature and society
- Space (Architecture) in literature
- Latin poetry
- Space (Architecture) in literature
- LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient, Classical & Medieval
- Space perception in literature
- Space perception in literature
- Latin poetry -- History and criticism
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "This ambitious book investigates a major yet underexplored nexus of themes in Roman cultural history: the evolving tropes of enclosure, retreat and compressed space within expanding, potentially borderless empire. In Roman writers' exploration of real and symbolic enclosures - caves, corners, villas, bathhouses, the 'prison' of the human body itself - we see the aesthetic, philosophical and political intersecting in fascinating ways, as the machine of empire is recast in tighter and tighter shapes. Victoria Rimell brings ideas and methods from literary theory, cultural studies and philosophy to bear on an extraordinary range of ancient texts rarely studied in juxtaposition, from Horace's Odes, Virgil's Aeneid and Ovid's Ibis, to Seneca's Letters, Statius' Achilleid and Tacitus' Annals. A series of epilogues puts these texts in conceptual dialogue with our own contemporary art world, and emphasizes the role Rome's imagination has played in the history of Western thinking about space, security and dwelling"--
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- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Rimell, Victoria
- Dewey number
- 871/.0109
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PA6047
- LC item number
- .R64 2015
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Latin poetry
- Space (Architecture) in literature
- Space perception in literature
- Literature and society
- LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient, Classical & Medieval
- Latin poetry
- Literature and society
- Space (Architecture) in literature
- Space perception in literature
- Rome (Empire)
- Label
- The closure of space in Roman poetics : empire's inward turn, Victoria Rimell
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Control code
- 900559493
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xi, 358 pages
- Isbn
- 9781107079267
- Lccn
- 2014049355
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)900559493
- Label
- The closure of space in Roman poetics : empire's inward turn, Victoria Rimell
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Control code
- 900559493
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xi, 358 pages
- Isbn
- 9781107079267
- Lccn
- 2014049355
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)900559493
Subject
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient, Classical & Medieval
- Latin poetry
- Latin poetry -- History and criticism
- Literature and society
- Literature and society -- Rome
- Rome (Empire)
- Space (Architecture) in literature
- Space (Architecture) in literature
- Space perception in literature
- Space perception in literature
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