Screen LibraryThe poetics of late Latin literature /
For a host of reasons, traditionalist scholarship has failed to give a full and positive account of the formal, aesthetic and religious transformations of ancient poetics in Late Antiquity. This collection of new essays attempts to capture the vibrancy of the living ancient tradition reinventing its...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | [2017] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford studies in late antiquity. |
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| Summary: |
For a host of reasons, traditionalist scholarship has failed to give a full and positive account of the formal, aesthetic and religious transformations of ancient poetics in Late Antiquity. This collection of new essays attempts to capture the vibrancy of the living ancient tradition reinventing itself in a new context in the hands of a series of great Latin writers of the fourth and fifth centuries AD. |
| Carrier Form: | viii, 534 pages : illustrations, forms ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-490) and indexes. |
| ISBN: |
9780199355631 (hardcover) : 0199355630 (hardcover) |
| Index Number: | PA6051 |
| CLC: | I106.2 |
| Call Number: | I106.2/P745-1 |
| Contents: | Introduction : notes towards a poetics of late antique literature / Jaś Elsner and Jesús Hernández Lobato -- POP art : the optical poetics of Publilius Optatianus Porfyrius / Michael Squire -- Polymetry in late Latin poems : some observations on its meaning and functions / Franca Ela Consolino -- Words pregnant with meaining : the power of single words in late Latin literature / Isabella Gualandri -- Intertextuality in late Latin poetry / Helen Kaufmann -- Late Narcissus : classicism and culture in a later Roman cento / Jaś Elsner -- Displacing tradition : a new-allegorical reading of Ausonius, Claudian, and Rutilius Namatianus / Marco Formisano -- Metapoetics in the prefaces of Claudian's De raptu Proserpinae / Stephan Harrison -- Rewriting Ausonius / Scott McGill -- To speak or not to speak : the birth of a 'poetics of silence' in late antique literature / Jesús Hermández Lobato -- The poetics of Latin prose praise and the fourth-century curve / Roger Rees -- The lies the poets tell : poetry in prose panegyrics / Catherine Ware -- Lactantius's Phoenix and late Latin poetics / Michael Robrerts -- The early Christian response to Platonist poetics : Boethius, Prudentius, and the Poeta Theologus / Marc Mastrangelo -- In praise of the wax candle : Augustine the poet and late Latin literature / Gillian Clark. |