Intertextuality and the Reading of Roman Poetry Robert A. Emmons and Helga Tawil-Souri

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Intertextuality and the Reading of Roman Poetry Robert A. Emmons and Helga Tawil-SouriHow can we explain the process by which a literary text refers to another text? For the past decade and a half, intertextuality has been a central concern of scholars and readers of Roman poetry. In Intertextuality and the Reading of Roman Poetry, Lowell Edmunds proceeds from such fundamental concepts as ''author,'' ''text,'' and ''reader,'' which he then applies to passages from Vergil, Horace, Ovid, and Catullus. Edmunds combines close readings of