Genres rediscovered : studies in Latin miniature epic, love elegy, and epigram of the Romano-Barbaric age / Anna Maria Wasyl.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wasyl, Anna Maria.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin literature--History and criticism.

Latin literature.

Dracontius, Blossius Aemilius, active 5th century.

Dracontius, Blossius Aemilius.

Maximianus, active 6th century.

Maximianus.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (291 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Kraków : Jagiellonian University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A reader of the epyllion by Dracontius, the elegy by Maximianus, and the epigram by Luxorius should not expect that these works - and these new embodiments of the 'old' genres - will be wholly identical with their 'archetypes'. Were it so, it would mean that we read but second-rate versifiers, indeed. ... We may expect rather that thanks to the reading of Dracontius's epyllion, Maximianus's elegy, and Luxorius's epigram our understanding of these very genres may become fuller and deeper than if it was narrowed only to the study of the 'classical phase' of the Roman literature.

Contents:

pt. 1. The miniature epic in Vandal Africa and the heritage of a 'non-genre'

pt. 2. The elegy without love : Maximianus and his opus

pt. 3. The Roman epigram in the Romano-Barbaric world.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

83-233-8068-6

OCLC:

781615029