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Paperback The Closure of Space in Roman Poetics: Empire's Inward Turn Book
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ISBN: 1107437482

ISBN13: 9781107437487

The Closure of Space in Roman Poetics: Empire's Inward Turn

(Part of the The W. B. Stanford Memorial Lectures Series)

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This ambitious book investigates a major yet underexplored nexus of themes in Roman cultural history: the evolving tropes of enclosure, retreat and compressed space within an expanding, potentially borderless empire. In Roman writers' exploration of real and symbolic enclosures - caves, corners, villas, bathhouses, the 'prison' of the human body itself - we see the aesthetic, philosophical and political intersecting in fascinating ways, as the machine...

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