The Sites of Rome: Time, Space, MemoryDavid H. J. Larmour, Diana Spencer Rome was a building site for much of its history, a city continually reshaped and reconstituted in line with political and cultural change. In later times, the conjunction of ruins and rebuilding lent the cityscape a particularly fascinating character, much exploited by artists and writers. This layering and changing of vistas also finds expression in the literary tradition, from classical times right up to the twenty-first-century. This collection of essays offers glimpses,sideways glances and unexpected angles that open up Rome in its widest possible sense, and explores how the visible components of Rome - the hills, the Tiber, the temples, the Forums, the Colosseum, the statues and monuments - operate as, or become, the sites/sights of Rome.The analyses are informed bycontemporary critical thinking and draw on ancient historical narrative, Roman poetry, Renaissance literature and cartography, art of the Grand Tour era, Russian and Soviet interpretations, and twentieth-century cinema. |
Contents
a topography of the imagination | 1 |
Livy on not gazing jumping or toppling into the void | 61 |
Ovids Theban law | 102 |
sadism desire and metonymy on the streets of Rome with Horace Ovid and Juvenal | 138 |
sites of abjection in Juvenals Rome | 168 |
Rome as a character in Tacitus Histories 3 | 211 |
Bakhtin and Plutarchs Roman metachronotope | 238 |
the Renaissance Rome and humanisms classical crisis | 271 |
8 Sizing up Rome or theorizing the overview | 295 |
the legacy of classical antiquity in Soviet childrens literature | 323 |
not a human habitation but a psychical entity | 353 |
Bibliography | 385 |
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