Latin Language and Latin Culture : From Ancient to Modern Times
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| Title: | Latin Language and Latin Culture : From Ancient to Modern Times |
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| Description: | The Latin language is popularly imagined in a number of specific ways: as a masculine language, an imperial language, a classical language, a dead language. This book considers the sources of these metaphors and analyses their effect on how Latin literature is read. It argues that these metaphors have become idées fixes not only in the popular imagination but in the formation of Latin studies as a professional discipline. By reading with and more commonly against these metaphors, the book offers a different view of Latin as a language and as a vehicle for cultural practice. The argument ranges over a variety of texts in Latin and texts about Latin produced by many different sorts of writers from antiquity to the twentieth century. |
| Authors: | Joseph Farrell |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Latin language--Study and teaching--History, Latin literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc, Latin language--Study and teaching |
| Categories: | LANGUAGE STUDY / Latin |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | The Latin language is popularly imagined in a number of specific ways: as a masculine language, an imperial language, a classical language, a dead language. This book considers the sources of these metaphors and analyses their effect on how Latin literature is read. It argues that these metaphors have become idées fixes not only in the popular imagination but in the formation of Latin studies as a professional discipline. By reading with and more commonly against these metaphors, the book offers a different view of Latin as a language and as a vehicle for cultural practice. The argument ranges over a variety of texts in Latin and texts about Latin produced by many different sorts of writers from antiquity to the twentieth century. |
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| ISBN: | 9780521772235 9780521776639 9780511040818 |
