| Horace's Well-Trained Reader: Toward a Methodology of Audience Participation in the Odes Contributor(s): Von Albrecht, Michael (Editor), Von Albrecht, Christiane (Editor), Sutherland, Elizabeth (Author) |
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ISBN: 3631397259 ISBN-13: 9783631397251 Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W OUR PRICE: $100.04 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2002 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Foreign Language Study | Latin |
| Dewey: 874.01 |
| LCCN: 2003541749 |
| Series: Studien Zur Klassischen Philologie |
| Physical Information: 260 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Horace's Well-Trained Reader explores the dynamic between Horace's poetic personae in the first three books of the Odes and the various audiences of those poems. Each chapter studies a selection of poems that are especially dense in programmatic content: the opening series and the closing pair of each book. The personae of these texts show an awareness of both internal and external audiences (for example, addressee and reader respectively). These lyric speakers and their expectations of us develop in a linear fashion over the three books. We are gradually trained to be fully involved audiences and to acknowledge that Horace's ego is an ethical leader at Rome by virtue of being a lyric poet who looks to both archaic and Hellenistic Greek models. |