Rumour and renown representations of Fama in western literature
"The Latin word fama means 'rumour', 'report', 'tradition', as well as modern English 'fame' or 'renown'. This magisterial and groundbreaking study in the literary and cultural history of rumour and renown, by one of the most influential living...
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press
2012
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| Edición: | 1st pub |
| Colección: | Cambridge classical studies
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| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991003260529708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Hesiod and Homer: Virgilian beginnings
- 3. Virgil's Fama
- 4. Fame and defamation in the Aeneid: the Council of Latins
- 5. Fama in Ovid's Metamorphoses
- 6. Later imperial epic
- 7. Fama and the historians I: Livy
- 8. Fama and the historians II: Tacitus, Pliny the Younger and Martial
- 9. The love of fame and the fame of love
- 10. Fame and blame, fame and envy: Spenserian personifications of the word
- 11. Christian conversions of Fama
- 12. Fama in Petrarch: Trionfi and Africa
- 13. Fama in early modern England: Shakespeare and Jonson
- 14. Fama and Milton: Paradise Lost and Samson Agonistes
- 15. Chaucer's House of Fame and Pope's Temple of Fame
- 16. Visual representations of Fama.
