{"product_id":"author-unknown-hardcover-by-tom-geue","title":"Author Unknown Hardcover by Tom Geue","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n                \n                    \n                        \u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n                        \u003cul\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cb\u003eHarvard University Press\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(2019-09-17)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e376\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003epages\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9780674988200\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eItem Weight\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e567.0\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003egrams\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003ecm\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                        \u003c\/ul\u003e\n                        \u003cbr\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn exploration of the darker corners of ancient Rome to spotlight the strange sorcery of anonymous literature.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom Banksy to Elena Ferrante to the unattributed parchments of ancient Rome, art without clear authorship fascinates and even offends us. Classical scholarship tends to treat this anonymity as a problem or game—a defect to be repaired or mystery to be solved. \u003ci\u003eAuthor Unknown\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book to consider anonymity as a site of literary interest rather than a gap that needs filling. We can tether each work to an identity, or we can stand back and ask how the absence of a name affects the meaning and experience of literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTom Geue turns to antiquity to show what the suppression or loss of a name can do for literature. Anonymity supported the illusion of Augustus’s sprawling puppet mastery (\u003ci\u003eRes Gestae\u003c\/i\u003e), controlled and destroyed the victims of a curse (Ovid’s \u003ci\u003eIbis\u003c\/i\u003e), and created out of whole cloth a poetic persona and career (Phaedrus’s \u003ci\u003eFables\u003c\/i\u003e). To assume these texts are missing something is to dismiss a source of their power and presume that ancient authors were as hungry for fame as today’s.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this original look at Latin literature, Geue asks us to work with anonymity rather than against it and to appreciate the continuing power of anonymity in our own time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                        \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003eTom Geue is a Classicist who writes about Latin literature from Virgil to Juvenal. He is Lecturer in Latin at the University of St Andrews and the author of \u003ci\u003eJuvenal and the Poetics of Anonymity\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                    \n                \n            \u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Best Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":46554445414561,"sku":"BBSNIJ9780674988200","price":58.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/2084\/5473\/files\/9780674988200.jpg?v=1781768805","url":"https:\/\/www.bestbookstore.ca\/products\/author-unknown-hardcover-by-tom-geue","provider":"Best Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}