The art of Pliny's letters a poetics of allusion in the private correspondence

In the first book on intertextuality in Pliny the Younger, Professor Marchesi invites a new reading of Pliny's collection of private epistles: the letters are examined as the product of an authorial strategy controlling both the rhetorical fabric of individual units and their arrangement in the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Marchesi, Ilaria (-)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press 2008
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • The semiotics of structure
  • Sed quid ego tam gloriose? Pliny's choice of poetics
  • The importance of being Secundus: Tacitus' voice in Pliny's letters
  • Storming historiography: Pliny's voice in Tacitus' texts
  • Overcoming Ciceronian anxiety: Pliny's niche/nike in literary history
  • From dawn till dusk: four notes in lieu of a conclusion
  • Appendix to Chapter 5.