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3126956Author Unknownhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/author-unknown-9780674242401/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2302976/11b68012-9a2c-419c-b510-fca4a807faaa.jpg?v=638383790837670000778948MXNHarvard University PressInStock/Ebooks/<p><strong>An exploration of the darker corners of ancient Rome to spotlight the strange sorcery of anonymous literature.</strong></p><p>From Banksy to Elena Ferrante to the unattributed parchments of ancient Rome, art without clear authorship fascinates and even offends us. Classical scholarship tends to treat this anonymity as a problem or gamea defect to be repaired or mystery to be solved. <em>Author Unknown</em> is the first book to consider anonymity as a site of literary interest rather than a gap that needs filling. We can tether each work to an identity, or we can stand back and ask how the absence of a name affects the meaning and experience of literature.</p><p>Tom Geue turns to antiquity to show what the suppression or loss of a name can do for literature. Anonymity supported the illusion of Augustuss sprawling puppet mastery (<em>Res Gestae</em>), controlled and destroyed the victims of a curse (Ovids <em>Ibis</em>), and created out of whole cloth a poetic persona and career (Phaedruss <em>Fables</em>). To assume these texts are missing something is to dismiss a source of their power and presume that ancient authors were as hungry for fame as todays.</p><p>In this original look at Latin literature, Geue asks us to work with anonymity rather than against it and to appreciate the continuing power of anonymity in our own time.</p>...3062947Author Unknown778948https://www.gandhi.com.mx/author-unknown-9780674242401/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2302976/11b68012-9a2c-419c-b510-fca4a807faaa.jpg?v=638383790837670000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20199780674242401_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_<p>Classical scholarship tends to treat anonymous authorship as a problem or gamea defect to be repaired or mystery to be solved. But anonymity can be a source of meaning unto itself, rather than a gap that needs filling. Tom Geues close readings of Latin texts show what the suppression or loss of a name can do for literature.</p>...(*_*)9780674242401_<p><strong>An exploration of the darker corners of ancient Rome to spotlight the strange sorcery of anonymous literature.</strong></p><p>From Banksy to Elena Ferrante to the unattributed parchments of ancient Rome, art without clear authorship fascinates and even offends us. Classical scholarship tends to treat this anonymity as a problem or gamea defect to be repaired or mystery to be solved. <em>Author Unknown</em> is the first book to consider anonymity as a site of literary interest rather than a gap that needs filling. We can tether each work to an identity, or we can stand back and ask how the absence of a name affects the meaning and experience of literature.</p><p>Tom Geue turns to antiquity to show what the suppression or loss of a name can do for literature. Anonymity supported the illusion of Augustuss sprawling puppet mastery (<em>Res Gestae</em>), controlled and destroyed the victims of a curse (Ovids <em>Ibis</em>), and created out of whole cloth a poetic persona and career (Phaedruss <em>Fables</em>). To assume these texts are missing something is to dismiss a source of their power and presume that ancient authors were as hungry for fame as todays.</p><p>In this original look at Latin literature, Geue asks us to work with anonymity rather than against it and to appreciate the continuing power of anonymity in our own time.</p>...9780674242401_Harvard University Presslibro_electonico_c7a9bd6a-540a-3eda-a1dd-ee61ce010571_9780674242401;9780674242401_9780674242401Tom GeueInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/harvard_academic-epub-092bdfef-8690-4e74-b279-cd428951169b.epub2019-09-17T00:00:00+00:00Harvard University Press