Now and Rome: Lucan and Vergil as Theorists of Politics and Space (Continuum Studies in Classical Reception) - Hardcover

Willis, Ika

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1441120513 ISBN 13: 9781441120519

Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

Now and Rome is about the way that sovereign power regulates the movement of information and the movement of bodies through space and time. Through a series of readings of three key Latin literary texts alongside six contemporary cultural theorists, Ika Willis argues for an understanding of sovereignty as a system which enforces certain rules for legibility, transmission and circulation on both information and bodies, redefining the relationship between the 'virtual' and the 'material'. This book is both innovative and important in that it brings together several key strands in recent thinking about sovereignty, history, space, and telecommunications, especially in the way it brings together 'textual' theories (reception, deconstruction) with political and spatial thinking. It also serves as a much-needed crossing-point between Classical Studies and cultural theory.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Ika Willis is Lecturer in Reception at the University of Bristol, UK.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1441120513
• ISBN 13: 9781441120519
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 198
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