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Nox Philologiae Aulus Gellius And The Fantasy Of The Roman Library 1st Edition Erik Gunderson

Name: Nox Philologiae Aulus Gellius And The Fantasy Of The Roman Library 1st Edition Erik Gunderson
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Nox Philologiae Aulus Gellius And The Fantasy Of The Roman Library 1st Edition Erik Gunderson instant download after payment.

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press

File Extension: PDF

File size: 2.15 MB

Pages: 344

Author: Erik Gunderson

ISBN: 9780299229702, 029922970X

Language: English

Year: 2008

Edition: 1

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Nox Philologiae Aulus Gellius And The Fantasy Of The Roman Library 1st Edition Erik Gunderson by Erik Gunderson 9780299229702, 029922970X instant download after payment.

In this strikingly original and playful work, Erik Gunderson examines questions of reading the past—an enterprise extending from antiquity to the present day. This esoteric and original study focuses on the equally singular work of Aulus Gellius—a Roman author and grammarian (ca. 120-180 A.D.), possibly of African origin. Gellius’s only work, the twenty-volume Noctes Atticae,is an exploding, sometimes seemingly random text-cum-diary in which Gellius jotted down everything of interest he heard in conversation or read in contemporary books. Comprising notes on Roman and classical grammar, geometry, philosophy, and history, it is a one-work overview of Latin scholarship, thought, and intellectual culture, a combination condensed library and cabinet of curiosities. Gunderson tackles Gellius with exuberance, placing him in the larger culture of antiquarian literature. Purposely echoing Gellius’s own swooping word-play and digressions, he explores the techniques by which knowledge was produced and consumed in Gellius’s day, as well as in our own time. The resulting book is as much pure creative fun as it is a major work of scholarship informed by the theories of Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, and Jacques Derrida.