Poetic allusion and poetic embrace in Ovid and Virgil
Poetic Allusion and Poetic Embrace in Ovid and Virgil addresses one of the fundamental questions regarding any literary pursuit: How shall we read? Basing his methodology on the philosophy of Martin Buber, R. A. Smith advances the notion that poets who allude to their predecessors "embrace" the text of their models. Allusion need not, strictly speaking, be looked at as a process of poetry, but can be seen as a high regard for the texts that precede it in the literary tradition. Ancient authors kept their readers in mind as they worked, and they constructed their texts in such a way as to create a certain role or roles for their readers
Print Book, English, ©1997
University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, ©1997
Criticism, interpretation, etc
ix, 226 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780472107063, 0472107062
37024821
Commentary in English; text in Latin with English translations