The poetics of late Latin literature / edited by Jas Elsner and Jesús Hernández Lobato.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Elsner, Jaś, editor.

Hernández Lobato, Jesús, editor.

UPSO (University Press Scholarship Online)

Series:

Oxford studies in late antiquity

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin poetry--History and criticism.

Latin poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 534 pages.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Late Antiquity has unified what in the past were disparate disciplinary, chronological, and geographical areas of study. Welcoming a wide array of methodological approaches, this book series provides a venue for the finest new scholarship on the period, ranging from the later Roman empire to the Byzantine, Sasanid, early Islamic, and early Carolingian Worlds. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I The Explosion of Form: Late Antique Experimentalism

1 POP Art: The Optical Poetics of Publilius Optatianus Porfyrius / Michael Squire Squire, Michael 25

2 Polymetry in Late Latin Poems: Some Observations on Its Meaning and Functions / Franca Ela Consolino Consolino, Franca Ela 100

3 Words Pregnant with Meaning: The Power of Single Words in Late Latin Literature / Isabella Gualandri Gualandri, Isabella 125

Part II Late Antique Intertextuality

4 Intertextuality in Late Latin Poetry / Helen Kaufmann Kaufmann, Helen 149

5 Late Narcissus: Classicism and Culture in a Late Roman Cento / Jas Elsner Elsner, Jas 176

Part III Programmatic Reflections: A Metaliterary Twist

6 Displacing Tradition: A New-Allegorical Reading of Ausonius, Claudian, and Rutilius Namatianus / Marco Formisano Formisano, Marco 207

7 Metapoetics in the Prefaces of Claudian's De raptu Proserpinae / Stephen Harrison Harrison, Stephen 236

8 Rewriting Ausonius / Scott McGill McGill, Scott 252

9 To Speak or Not to Speak: The Birth of a "Poetics of Silence" in Late Antique Literature / Jesús Hernández Lobato Lobato, Jesús Hernández 278

Part IV Literature and Power

10 The Poetics of Latin Prose Praise and the Fourth-Century Curve / Roger Rees Rees, Roger 313

11 The Lies the Poets Tell: Poetry in Prose Panegyrics / Catherine Ware Ware, Catherine 345

Part V A New Literary Space: The Challenges of Christian Poetry

12 Lactantius's Phoenix and Late Latin Poetics / Michael Roberts Roberts, Michael 373

13 The Early Christian Response to Platonist Poetics: Boethius, Prudentius, and the Poeta Theplogus / Marc Mastrangelo Mastrangelo, Marc 391

14 In Praise of the Wax Candle: Augustine the Poet and Late Latin Literature / Gillian Clark Clark, Gillian 424.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Oxford Available via World Wide Web.

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Other Format:

Online version: Poetics of late Latin literature.

ISBN:

9780199355655

0199355657

Publisher Number:

99970506539

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