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Poetry, Prosecution, and the Author Function (2022)
Book Chapter
Goldschmidt, N. (2022). Poetry, Prosecution, and the Author Function. In E. Bexley, & I. Ziogas (Eds.), Roman Law and Latin Literature (147-168). Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350276666.ch-008

This chapter draws on Foucault’s ‘author function’ to expose the ways in which the beginnings of Latin literature were predicated on interactions with Roman law. Foucault stipulates two principal conditions for the cultural emergence of the author, b... Read More about Poetry, Prosecution, and the Author Function.