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 Au |