Rumour and Renown - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rumour and Renown write by Philip R. Hardie. This book was released on 2012-02-02. Rumour and Renown available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Major study of the literary treatment of rumour and renown across the canon of authors from Homer to Alexander Pope, including readings in historiographical and dramatic texts, and authors such as Petrarch, Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare and Milton. Of interest to students of classical and comparative literature and of reception studies.
Rumour and Renown
Rumour and Renown - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rumour and Renown write by Philip Hardie. This book was released on 2014-12-18. Rumour and Renown available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 critics of Latin poetry, examines the intricate dynamics of their representations from Homer to Alexander Pope, with a focus on the power struggles played out within attempts to control the word, both spoken and written. Central are the personifications of Fama in Virgil and Ovid and the rich progeny spawned by them, but the book focuses on a wide range of genres other than epic, and on a variety of modes of narrating, dramatising, critiquing, and illustrating fama. Authors given detailed readings include Livy, Tacitus, Petrarch, Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Ben Jonson and Milton.
Rumour and Renown
Rumour and Renown - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rumour and Renown write by Mary Colleen Flannery. This book was released on 2007. Rumour and Renown available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Libera Fama
Libera Fama - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Libera Fama write by Stratis Kyriakidis. This book was released on 2017-01-06. Libera Fama available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fame and glory, rumour and reputation have fascinated through the ages. The way in which they are communicated and spread is a topic which impacts our lives on a daily basis and is an important theme in current literature. The ancient world is an ideal arena for the exploration of these issues, being a ‘closed’ period of human history that offers a secure resource for exploring the phenomenon. Philip Hardie’s Rumour and Renown: Representations of Fama in Western Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2012) is an authoritative work on this subject, and the stimulus for this volume. Continuing the on-going discussion, each one of the contributors examines further aspects of the issue in the work of Lucretius, Cicero, Virgil, Ovid, Manilius, Juvenal and the Christian poet, Prudentius. The volume offers insights into the poets’ personal quest for acclaim and – more importantly – their awareness of the qualities of the phenomenon, an awareness which, on occasion, led them to personify fame and glory. Virgil’s personification of Fama in Aeneid 4 was fame’s most important personification, influencing artists for centuries to come, and it is this subject with which the volume concludes.
Word of Mouth
Word of Mouth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Word of Mouth write by Gianni Guastella. This book was released on 2017. Word of Mouth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Word of Mouth offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the evolving personifications of the ancient concept of fama in ancient and medieval literature and in European figurative art between the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth centuries.
