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This book applies some of the procedures of modern critical theory (in particular reception-theory, deconstruction, theories of dialogue and the hermeneutics associated with the German philosopher Gadamer) to the interpretation of Latin poetry. Charles Martindale argues that we neither can nor should attempt to return to an 'original' meaning for ancient poems, free from later accretions and the processes of appropriation; more traditional approaches to literary enquiry conceal a metaphysics which has been put in question by various anti-foundationalist accounts of the nature of meaning and the relationship between language and what it describes. From this perspective the author examines different readings of the poetry of Virgil, Ovid, Horace and Lucan, in order to suggest alternative ways in which those texts might more profitably be read. Finally he focuses on a key term for such study 'translation' and examines the epistemological questions it raises and seeks to circumvent.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Redeeming the Text
• Subtitle: Latin Poetry and the Hermeneutics of Reception
• Author: Charles Martindale
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 140
• EAN: 9780521427197
• ISBN: 0521427193
• ID: 02030510
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 170 g
• Dimensions: 201 × 132 × 9 mm
• Date of publishing: 17. December 1992

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