{"product_id":"a-late-antique-poetics-9781350347144","title":"A Late Antique Poetics","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poetry of the late Roman world has a fascinating history. Sometimes an object of derision, sometimes an object of admiration, it has found numerous detractors and defenders among classicists and Latin literary critics. This volume explores the scholarly approaches to late Latin poetry that have developed over the last 40 years, and it seeks especially to develop, complement and challenge the seminal concept of the Jeweled Style' proposed by Michael Roberts in 1989. While Roberts's monograph has long been a \u003ci\u003evade mecum \u003c\/i\u003ewithin the world of late antique literary studies, a critical reassessment of its validity as a concept is overdue.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e               This volume invites established and emerging scholars from different research traditions to return to the influential conclusions put forward by Roberts. It asks them to examine the continued relevance of \u003ci\u003eThe Jeweled Style\u003c\/i\u003e and to suggest new ways to engage it. In a joint effort, the nineteen chapters of this volume d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53187300819287,"sku":"9781350347144","price":28.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-late-antique-poetics-9781350347144","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}