Secret of the Muses Retold
Classical Influences on Italian Authors of the Twentieth Century
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Contents
PRELUDE
CHAPTER 1- THE RIDDLE OF FATE
Sophocles’ Oedipus the King and Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Edipo re
CHAPTER 2- THE WORLD AS TEXT
Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose as Semiotic Fiction
CHAPTER 3- FRESH AIR FROM HELICON
The Neo-Latin Verse of Joseph Tusiani
CHAPTER 4- RHETORICAL VALUES ANCIENT AND MODERN
Hermogenes’ On Types of Style and Italo Calvino’s Six Memos for the Next Millennium
CHAPTER 5- THE REVESTITURE OF MYTH
Robert Calasso’s The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony
CODA
APPENDIX: Joseph Tusiani, Latin Poetry
REFERENCES
INDEX
CHAPTER 1- THE RIDDLE OF FATE
Sophocles’ Oedipus the King and Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Edipo re
CHAPTER 2- THE WORLD AS TEXT
Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose as Semiotic Fiction
CHAPTER 3- FRESH AIR FROM HELICON
The Neo-Latin Verse of Joseph Tusiani
CHAPTER 4- RHETORICAL VALUES ANCIENT AND MODERN
Hermogenes’ On Types of Style and Italo Calvino’s Six Memos for the Next Millennium
CHAPTER 5- THE REVESTITURE OF MYTH
Robert Calasso’s The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony
CODA
APPENDIX: Joseph Tusiani, Latin Poetry
REFERENCES
INDEX
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