The art of Pliny's letters : a poetics of allusion in the private correspondence
This text treats Pliny's private epistles neither as a mere source of historical and social information, nor as a portrait of the artist, but as a work of literature. It studies poetic allusion in epistolary prose, thereby illuminating the cultural debates about poetry, oratory and historiography in Pliny's day.
Print Book, English, 2008
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2008
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xii, 278 pages ; 24 cm
9780521882279, 0521882273
172979876
Introduction
The semiotics of structure
Sed quid ego tam gloriose? Pliny's choice of poetics
The importance of being Secundus: Tacitus' voice in Pliny's letters
Storming historiography: Pliny's voice in Tacitus' texts
Overcoming Ciceronian anxiety: Pliny's niche/nike in literary history
From dawn till dusk: four notes in lieu of a conclusion
Appendix to Chapter 5