Description
Book SynopsisIntertextuality is a matter of reading.
Trade ReviewStudded with striking observations and suggestive formulations. -- Charles Platter Religious Studies Review Lowell Edmunds has written a book that provides what is expected and appreciated in a theoretical study: the scholarship is extensive and well organized into arguments which are themselves descriptive, provocative, challenging, and supported by a close reading of a variety of selections from Catullus, Horace, Vergil, and Ovid. -- David J. Kuyat Bryn Mawr Classical Review For the graduate student and for the consenting Latinist, this is a book which enters a debate with verve and commitment that should provoke yet further discussion. -- Simon Goldhill Classical World
Table of ContentsPreface
Introduction
Chapter 1. Text
Chapter 2. Poet
Chapter 3. Reader
Chapter 4. Persona
Chapter 5. Addressee: A Dialogue
Chapter 6. Possible Worlds
Chapter 7. Reading in Rome, First Century B.C.E.
Chapter 8. Intertextuality: Terms and Theory
Conclusion
Works Cited
Index of Ancient Citations
General Index
