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Latin Language and Latin Culture : From Ancient to Modern Times
Overview
The Latin language is popularly imagined in a number of specific ways: as a masculine language, an imperial language, a classical language, a dead language. This book considers the sources of these metaphors and analyzes their effect on how Latin literature is read. By reading with and more commonly against these metaphors, the book offers a different view of Latin as a language and as a vehicle for cultural practice. The argument ranges over a variety of texts in Latin and texts about Latin from antiquity to the twentieth century.
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- ISBN-13: 9780521776639
- ISBN-10: 0521776635
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publish Date: February 2001
- Dimensions: 7.77 x 5.1 x 0.43 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.44 pounds
- Page Count: 164
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