Allusion and Intertext: Dynamics of Appropriation in Roman Poetry

by Stephen Hinds

This is a book about how the poets of Classical Rome found artistic inspiration in the words and themes of their poetic predecessors. It combines traditional Classical approaches to poetic allusion and imitation with modern literary-theoretical ways of thinking about how texts are used and reused, valued and revalued, in particular reading communities. Like other volumes in the series it is among the most broadly conceived short books on Roman literature to be published in recent years.

Genres: Classics, Nonfiction

172 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1998

Reviews

[Elianne · Rating 3 out of 5]

Degelijk boek, toch veel op aan te merken.

[Michael · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is probably the most remarkable book I've ever read on this subject. Leaves English scholars of the same subject in the dust. A brain-bending series of exercises in thinking about how texts think with and through other texts.

[Chandler · Rating 5 out of 5]

ABSOLUTE KNOCKOUT!!!!