Now and Rome: Lucan and Vergil as Theorists of Politics and Space (Continuum Studies in Classical Reception) - Hardcover

Willis, Dr Ika

 
9781441120519: Now and Rome: Lucan and Vergil as Theorists of Politics and Space (Continuum Studies in Classical Reception)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1441120513 ISBN 13: 9781441120519
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation, 2010

Synopsis

Now and Rome is about the way that sovereign power regulates the movement of information and the movement of bodies through space and time. Through a series of readings of three key Latin literary texts alongside six contemporary cultural theorists, Ika Willis argues for an understanding of sovereignty as a system which enforces certain rules for legibility, transmission and circulation on both information and bodies, redefining the relationship between the 'virtual' and the 'material'.

This book is both innovative and important in that it brings together several key strands in recent thinking about sovereignty, history, space, and telecommunications, especially in the way it brings together 'textual' theories (reception, deconstruction) with political and spatial thinking. It also serves as a much-needed crossing-point between Classical Studies and cultural theory.

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About the Author

Ika Willis is Lecturer in Reception at the University of Bristol, UK.

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Publisher
Continuum Publishing Corporation
Publication date
2010
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1441120513
ISBN 13 
9781441120519
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
208

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