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Major study of the literary treatment of rumour and renown across the canon of authors from Homer to Alexander Pope, including readings in historiographical and
Rumour and Renown
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Authors: Philip Hardie
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-12-18 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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The Latin word fama means 'rumour', 'report', 'tradition', as well as modern English 'fame' or 'renown'. This magisterial and groundbreaking study in the litera
Word of Mouth
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The concept expressed by the Roman term fama, although strictly linked to the activity of speaking, recalls a more complex form of collective communication that
Alexander Pope in The Reign of Queen Anne
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This is the first collection of essays since George Sherburn’s landmark monograph The Early Career of Alexander Pope (1934) to reconsider how the most importa
Posterity
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Authors: Rocco Rubini
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"Rocco Rubini studies the motives and literary forms in the making of a "tradition," not understood narrowly, as the conservative, stubborn preservation of rece