Imitating Authors: Plato to Futurity

by Colin Burrow

Imitating Authors is a major study of the theory and practice of imitatio (the imitation of one author by another) from antiquity to the present day. It extends from early Greek texts right up to recent fictions about clones and artificial humans, and illuminates both the theory and practice of imitation. At its centre lie the imitating authors of the English Renaissance, including Ben Jonson and the most imitated imitator of them all, John Milton...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198838085
• ISBN13: 9780198838081
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.3"