Abstract
In his article "Reminiscing about Latin: Cases of Life-writing and the Classical Tradition," David Andrew Porter examines the life of Latin and life-writing in Latin while drawing on other languages. He argues that post-classical Latin writing is vital to many modern writers and offers a challenge to post-Romantic conceptions of literature. He explores how Latin literary traditions affect professional and accidental writers, from the Renaissance scholar Isaac Casaubon to the Jamaican poet Francis Williams, in order to draw attention to the humour, irony and conflict in such lived experiences and writing.
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Porter, David Andrew
"Reminiscing about Latin: Cases of Life-writing and the Classical Tradition."
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
20.5
(2018):
<https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.3395>
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