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The closure of space in Roman poetics : empire's inward turn
- Title
- The closure of space in Roman poetics : empire's inward turn / Victoria Rimell.
- Author
- Rimell, Victoria
- Publication
- New York : Cambridge University Press, [2015]
- Supplementary Content
- Cover image
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- Description
- xi, 358 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- 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"--
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: Introduction: interior designs; 1. Empire without end: opening, expansion, enclosure; 2. All four corners of the world: Horace's enclaves; 3. Roman philosophy and the house of being: Seneca's Letters; 4. Blood, sweat and fears in the Roman baths; 5. Imperial enclosure, epic spectacle; 6. The homeless problem: exile, entrapment, desire.
- Call Number
- JFE 15-5179
- ISBN
- 9781107079267
- 1107079268
- LCCN
- 2014049355
- OCLC
- 900559493
- Author
- Rimell, Victoria, author.
- Title
- The closure of space in Roman poetics : empire's inward turn / Victoria Rimell.
- Publisher
- New York : Cambridge University Press, [2015]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Research Call Number
- JFE 15-5179