Latin Language and Latin Culture: From Ancient to Modern Times
(Part of the Roman Literature and its Contexts Series)
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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 id?es 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.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0521776635
ISBN13:9780521776639
Release Date:February 2001
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:164 Pages
Weight:0.45 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 5.1" x 7.8"
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