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VITRUVIUS AND THE PROGRAMMATICS OF PROSE

OKSANISH, JOHN

Arethusa, 2016-04, Vol.49 (2), p.263-280 [Periódico revisado por pares]

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Título:
VITRUVIUS AND THE PROGRAMMATICS OF PROSE
Autor: OKSANISH, JOHN
Assuntos: Architecture ; Attitudes ; Historiography ; Prose ; Romance literature ; Vitruvius (Marcus Vitruvius Pollio) ; Writers
É parte de: Arethusa, 2016-04, Vol.49 (2), p.263-280
Descrição: Oksanish reconsiders Vitruvius attitude toward literary auctoritas ("authority") in the context of two related types of historiographical writing: so-called "universal" or "world" history and chronography. The preface to Book 5 of de Architectura begins with something of a complaint. According to Vitruvius, his technical subject matter resists the sonic bells and whistles of poetic texts and lacks the sequences of events that are natural to narrative historiography. Vitruvius may seem at first blush to admit to the kinds of literary failure of which his stylistic detractors have often accused him. To write about architecture (and thus About Architecture), he implies, is to forsake the auctoritas that writers of other works enjoy.
Editor: Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
Idioma: Inglês

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