Beschreibung:

XVII, 117 p. Paperback.

Bemerkung:

Very occasional pencil markings in the book, cover rubbed. - Contents List of plates Preface Acknowledgements I Five concepts in search of an author: suite I Two short (tall?) stories 2 Are you receiving me? 3 Framing contexts 4 Telling stories about the past 5 Firing the canon: tradition or treason? 6 Recovering dialogue 2 Rereading Virgil: divertimento I Prelude: the critic as artist 2 Breaking the well-wrought urn 3 Dante-reading-Virgil 4 Lucan-reading-Virgil 5 Postlude: the artist as critic 3 Rereading Ovid and Lucan: cadenzas I Ovid received 2 Lucan restored 4 Translation as rereading: symphony in three movements 1 Allegro ma non troppo: praising metaphrase 2 Adagio maestoso: untying the text 3 Allegro vivace: unlocking the word-hoard Postscript: Redeeming the text, or a lover's discourse. ISBN 9780521427197