The Roman Book
Rex. Winsbury
Bok Engelsk 2009 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | London : : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2009.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (418 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; Editor's Foreword; Preface; Graffiti and other sayings; Introduction; 1. Myths and anachronisms: the need for a new look at roman publishing; What was the roman book?; 2. Format wars: scroll v. codex, papyrus v. parchment, pagan v. Christian; 3. Don't mess up the aesthetics: marching columns and rivers of letters; 4. Did the medium shape the message? Deciphering the author's intent; Deconstructing the roman book trade; 5. Atticus and co. - roman publishers?; 6. Bookshops and copyshops: a trip to Rome's Argiletum and Sigillaria. - 7. Books for looks: the library shelves as imperial patronageWhat the Latin tells us; 8. Slavery as the enabling infrastructure of roman literature; 9. Getting into circulation: from private space to public space; Texts in an oral/aural society; 10. Effecte! Graviter! Cito! Nequiter! Euge! Beate!:1 the recitatio as act of publication; 11. Literature of the voice: 'toss me a coin and I'll tell you a golden story'; The perils of publishing; 12. The battle for survival: mice and worms, plagiarism and posterity; 13. Bookburning and treason: 'a time of savagery even in peace'. - Gluing it all together14. Scripts for all classes: the theatre of Rome, Rome as theatre; 15. A unitary culture: elite self-Definition and romanitas for all; Appendix A. Roman shorthand: a note on Tiro; Appendix B. Poetic postures: toto notus in orbe?; Bibliography; Footnotes; Notes; Copyright. - The publishing of Roman books has long and often been misrepresented by false analogies with modern publishing. This comprehensive new study examines, by appeal to what Roman authors themselves tell us, both the raw materials and aesthetic criteria of the Roman book (a papyrus scroll) and the process of literary composition. What was the 'scribal art' of the time? What was the role of bookshops and libraries? What control did an author have over his creation? How were new books received and used by readers? To answer these questions Roman publishing is placed firmly in the context of a society
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| ISBN | 9780715638293
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