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  1. Imitating authors
    Plato to futurity
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, Oxford

    Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780192575142
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    Edition: First edition
    Subjects: Literatur; Imitatio; Philosophie
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 470 Seiten)
  2. Imitating Authors
    Plato to Futurity
    Published: 2019; ©2019
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press USA - OSO, Oxford

    People learn by imitating other people. Authors do the same. This book explains how authors from the earliest stages of Western literature to the present day have imitated each other. Cover -- IMITATING AUTHORS: Plato to Futurity -- Copyright --... more

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    People learn by imitating other people. Authors do the same. This book explains how authors from the earliest stages of Western literature to the present day have imitated each other. Cover -- IMITATING AUTHORS: Plato to Futurity -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Preface -- Contents -- Abbreviations and a Note on the Texts -- Introduction -- PART I: Antiquity -- 1: From om Mimes̄ is to Imitatio: Before and After Plato -- Early uses of 'mimes̄ is' -- Greek drama -- Plato -- After Plato -- 2: Building Bodies: Imitatio and the Roman Rhetorical Tradition -- The Ad Herennium -- Cicero -- Seneca and metaphors for Imitatio -- Quintilian -- Longinus -- 3: Dreamitation: Lucretius, Homer, Virgil -- Lucretius -- Virgil's ghosts -- PART II: Early Modernity -- 4: Petrarchan Transformations -- Humanist rediscoveries? -- Imitatio and plagiarism -- 'Africa' and the lost imitand -- 5: Adaptive Imitation: Ciceronians, Courtiers, and Quixotes -- Erasmus's Ciceronianus -- Castiglione: sprezzatura and the courtier's mastery -- Epic adaptations and novel creations -- 6: Formal Imitation: The 'Leaden-Headed Germans' and Their English Heirs -- Pico and Bembo -- Melanchthon -- Sturm -- Ascham -- Ramus, Harvey, and English 'stylism' -- 7: Ben Jonson: Formal Imitation -- Justus Lipsius and Jonson on imitation -- Formal imitation -- Jonson's Epigrams -- Jonsonian reincarnations -- The sons of Ben -- PART III: Milton and After -- 8: Milton: Modelling the Ancients -- The sin of imitation? -- Imitatio in the seventeenth century -- Modelling the ancients -- Paradise Regained: the Temple as template -- 9: Imitation in the Age of Literary Property: Pope to Wordsworth -- Literary property -- The path to Wordsworth -- 10: The Promethean Moment: Mary Shelley and Milton's Monstrous Progeny -- Imitating humans -- Mary Shelley -- From monsters to clones -- Posthuman Postscript: Poems more Durable than Brass -- Bibliography -- Primary works -- Secondary works -- Index.

     

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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780192575142
    Subjects: Imitation in literature; Electronic books
    Scope: 1 online resource (483 pages)
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    Published: 2019.
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press,, Oxford :

    Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Zentralbibliothek
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    Volltext (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780192575142
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    Edition: First edition
    Subjects: Imitatio; Philosophie; Literatur
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 470 Seiten).