TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sciarrino,Enrica
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Cato the Censor and the Beginnings of Latin Prose : : From Poetic Translation to Elite Transcription / 
SN  - 9780814270639
PY  - 2011///]
CY  - Columbus
PB  - The Ohio State University Press
KW  - Cato, Marcus Porcius,
KW  - Latin prose literature
KW  - fast
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Prose latine
KW  - Aspect social
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Critiques litteraires
KW  - rvmgf
KW  - Literary criticism
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Situating the beginnings of Latin prose -- Under the Roman sun : poets, rulers, translations, and power -- Conflicting scenarios : traffic in others and others' things -- Inventing Latin prose : Cato the Censor and the formation of a new aristocracy -- Power differentials in writing : texts and authority; Open Access
N2  - "Through a methodologically innovative exploration of the interlacing of genre and form with practice, Enrica Sciarrino bridges the gap between these two scholarly camps and develops new areas of inquiry by rescuing from the margins of scholarship the earliest remnants of Latin prose associated with Cato the Censor--a "new man" and one of the most influential politicians of his day. By systematically analyzing poetic and prose texts in relation to one another and to diverse authorial subjectivities, 'Cato the Censor and the Beginnings of Latin Prose: From Poetic Translation to Elite Transcription' offers an entirely new perspective on the formation of Latin literature, challenges current assumptions about Roman cultural hierarchies, and sheds light on the social value attributed to different types of writing practices in mid-Republican Rome"--Publisher's description; "In the past decade, classical scholarship has been polarized by questions concerning the establishment of a literary tradition in Latin in the late third century BCE. On one side of the divide, there are those scholars who insist on the primacy of literature as a hermeneutical category and who, consequently, maintain a focus on poetic texts and their relationship with Hellenistic precedents. On the other side are those who prefer to rely on a pool of Latin terms as pointers to larger sociohistorical dynamics, and who see the emergence of Latin literature as one expression of these dynamics."
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/24269/
ER  -