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Martial
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Martial
"My project started with a "dissenting" translation of Martial's Book of the Spectacles. I use that term, not because I'm adapting or appropriating the text, but because the Spectacles sequence has a history of being dismissed as sub-par, early work commemorating the opening of the Colosseum. Current scholars, including Kathleen Coleman who's made the sequence somewhat of a specialty, increasingly seem to be challenging that dismissive view. Coleman also considers the dating purely speculative. I'm not attempting to join a technical and arcane historical debate. But strictly from a literary standpoint, her views on the dating free a poetic translator to exploit the same irony, double-entendre and polyvalence that imbues the greater Martial canon. The Spectacles' extended theme - the animal fights, blood sports and execution entertainments of the Arena - is, as far as I know, unique in Classical poetry. Even the over-the-top adulation of the un-named, games-presiding "Caesar" can take on its own cynical undertone when read in the context of Martial's "hare and lion" relationship with the self-styled Dominus et Deus Emperor Domitian." -Art Beck
Media | Boeken Paperback Book (Boek met zachte kaft en gelijmde rug) |
Vrijgegeven | 12 oktober 2018 |
ISBN13 | 9781848616189 |
Uitgevers | SHEARSMAN BOOKS |
Pagina's | 132 |
Afmetingen | 152 × 229 × 8 mm · 204 g |
Taal en grammatica | Engels |
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