TY - BOOK ID - 3189828 TI - The art of Pliny's letters : a poetics of allusion in the private correspondence PY - 2008 SN - 9780521882279 0521882273 9780511482298 9780521296977 0511387288 9780511388279 0511388276 9780511387289 0511482299 0521296978 1281254967 9786611254964 0511386257 0511384424 0511382618 PB - New York ; Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Allusions in literature. KW - Allusions dans la littérature KW - Pliny, KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Correspondence KW - Criticism, Textual. KW - Allusions dans la littérature KW - Allusions in literature KW - Caius Plinius, KW - Gaĭ T︠S︡et︠s︡iliĭ Pliniĭ Sekund, KW - Gaj Plinije, KW - Kaĭ Pliniĭ T︠S︡et︠s︡iliĭ Vtoroĭ KW - Pline, KW - Pliniĭ, KW - Plinio, KW - Plinius Caecilius Secundus, C. KW - Plinius Caecilius Secundus, Caius KW - Plinius, Caius, KW - Gaius Plinius Secundus Minor KW - C. Plini Caecili Secundi KW - Pline le Jeune KW - Plinius de jongere KW - Plinius der Jüngere KW - Plinius Caecilius Secundus, Gaius KW - Arts and Humanities KW - History KW - Pline le Jeune (0061?-0114?) KW - Lettres KW - Allusion (rhétorique) KW - Intertextualité KW - Critique et interprétation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3189828 AB - In this book on intertextuality in Pliny the Younger, Professor Marchesi invites an alternative reading of Pliny's collection of private epistles: the letters are examined as the product of an authorial strategy controlling both the rhetorical fabric of individual units and their arrangement in the collection. By inserting recognisable fragments of canonical authors into his epistles, Pliny imports into the still fluid practice of letter-writing the principles of composition and organisation that for his contemporaries characterised other writings as literature. Allusions become the occasion for a metapoetic dialogue, especially with the collection's privileged addressee, Tacitus. An active participant in the cultural politics of his time, Pliny entrusts to the letters his views on poetry, oratory and historiography. In defining a model of epistolography alternative to Cicero's and complementing those of Horace, Ovid and Seneca, he also successfully carves a niche for his work in the Roman literary canon. ER -