Aspects of genre and type in pre-modern literary cultures / edited by Bert Roest and Herman Vanstiphout.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Roest, Bert, 1965-

Vanstiphout, H. L. J. (Herman L. J.)

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

COMERS/ICOG communications ; 1.

COMERS/ICOG communications ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literary form.

Physical Description:

viii, 139 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Groningen : Styx, 1999.

Summary:

This collection of studies is the result of a series of seminars organised by COMERS in 1996. The theme of generic problems has led to a variety of disciplines (Ancient Oriental, Classical, Medieval, Arabic, Middle Dutch...), of textual types (fables, historiography, comedies, Canon law...) and a variety of approaches (case studies, theoretical studies, confrontations between 'native' and 'critical' schemes...). This collection may be useful for comparative purposes, but also as an incentive for further studies on generic problems, theoretical as well as topical.

Contents:

Adam per Evam deceptus est, non Eva per Adam : biblical repertoria in fourteenth-century canon law / Dirk Claes

Some brave attempts at generic classification in premodern Arabic literature / Geert Jan van Gelder

Rigid readings of flexible texts : the case of sixteenth-century comic drama / Femke Kramer

Medieval historiography / Bert Roest

Boundless papyri / Monique van Rossum-Steenbeck

The fable is dead, long live the fable! / Anda Schippers

"I can put anything in its right place" : generic and typological studies as strategies for the analysis and evaluation of mankind's oldest literature / Herman Vanstiphout

Continuity and change in Mesopotamian lexical tradition / Niek Veldhuis

When Phaedra left the tragic stage : generic switches in Apuleius' Metamorphoses / Maaike Zimmerman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9056930311

OCLC:

44413644