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Set on a Louisiana sugarcane plantation within the Nineteen Seventies, A collecting of previous Men is a robust depiction of racial tensions bobbing up over the demise of a Cajun farmer by the hands of a black guy.
"Poignant, strong, earthy...a novel of Southern racial disagreement during which a bunch of aged black males band jointly opposed to whites who search vengeance for the homicide of 1 in their own."--Booklist
"A superb novel...there is a denouement that might surprise and flow readers up to it does the characters."--Philadelphia Inquirer
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Consoli, RCCM 37, 1995, 128 f. u. a. 136 G. Seeck, Ed. MGH 6,1, Berlin 1883, 14 datiert den Brief post a. 369“, J. P. ” ¨ Callu, Ed. Paris 1972, 88 apr` es 370“, sodaß die Ubersendung durchaus im Zu” sammenhang mit der Arbeit an der Mosella stehen kann. 137 Zu den Hebdomaden Varros vgl. zuletzt M. R. Salzmann: The letters of Symmachus, Book 1, Atlanta 2011, S. lxiv, zu Vitruv in der Sp¨ atantike vgl. RE IX A [1961] 462 und M. ] 699. 2. ] 161–170 und Komm. S. 7. ] 66 verweist auf die Verbindung einzelner Teile mit verschiedenen Textsorten.
Il. 2, 488, im Lateinischen seit Verg. Aen. 6, 625 beliebten Unsagbarkeits” topos“ vgl. Curtius 168; Kl. Thraede, JbAChr 4, 1961, 119; Taegert 117. 6. 3. Topographie und Chorographie Aus der gew¨ ahlten Thematik ergibt sich geradezu zwangsl¨aufig die Einbeziehung topographischer und chorographischer Elemente. Sie reichen vom einzelnen, charakteristischen Attribut bis hin zur Entfaltung einer Szenerie wie bei der Aufz¨ ahlung der Nebenfl¨ usse der Mosel und der Fl¨ usse Galliens, die jeweils individuell charakterisiert sind.
1, 14 ff. -L. Charlet, Philologus 132, 1988, 79 spricht von cultural and political triumphalism“ und findet in diesem Ton ein ” Charakteristikum sp¨ atantiker Literaturwerke. ] 68 in dem Gedicht. : Die Entdeckung des Geistes, G¨ ottingen 4 1975, 257–274 verweist. 182 Zu einer vergleichbaren Situation im Verh¨ altnis von Maximian und Maxentius vgl. Paneg. ] S. 41. 7. Rezeption der Mosella in Sp¨ atantike und Mittelalter 39 m¨ ogliches Echo auf das Moselgedicht und zieht daraus Folgerungen auf die Entstehungszeit.
