Marginality, canonicity, passion / edited by Marco Formisano and Christina Shuttleworth Kraus.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Formisano, Marco, editor.

Kraus, Christina Shuttleworth, 1958- editor.

Series:

Classical presences

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Classical literature--History and criticism--Congresses.

Classical literature.

Canon (Literature)--Congresses.

Canon (Literature).

Classical literature--History and criticism.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xviii, 364 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

In recent years, the discipline of Classics has been experiencing a profound transformation affecting not only its methodologies and hermeneutic practices - how classicists read and interpret ancient literature - but also, and more importantly, the objects of classical study themselves. One of the most important factors has been the establishment of reception studies, examining the ways in which classical literature and culture have been appropriated or responded to in later ages and/or non-western cultures. This temporal and cultural expansion beyond the 'traditional' remit of the field has had many salutary effects, but reception studies are not without limitations: of particular consequence is a tendency to focus almost exclusively on the most canonical Greek and Latin texts which is partly due to the sheer scale on which they have been received, adapted, discussed, and alluded to since antiquity. By definition, reception studies are uninterested in texts which have had no 'success', but the result of an implicit adoption of canonicity as an unspoken criterion is the marginalization of other texts which, despite their inherent value, have not experienced so significant a Nachleben. This volume seeks to move beyond the questions of what is central, what is marginal, and why, to explore instead the range and significance of the classical canon and the processes by which it is shaped and changed by its reception in different academic and cultural environments. By examining the academic study of Classics from the interrelated titular perspectives of marginality, canonicity, and passion, it aims to unveil their many subtle implications and reopen a discussion not only about what makes the discipline unique, but also about what direction it might take in the future.

Contents:

I Marginality and the Classics: Exemplary Extraneousness p. 1 / Marco Formisano

II Overview of this Volume p. 29 / Christina Shuttleworth Kraus

2 Before Discipline: Philology and the Horizon of Sense in Quignard's Sur le jadis p. 37 / John T. Hamilton

3 Hyperinelusivity, Hypercanonicity, and the Future of the Field p. 57 / Constanze Güthenke and Brooke Holmes

4 The Elusive Middle: Vitruvius' Mediocracy of Virtue p. 75 / John Oksanish

5 Theodor Mommsen, Louis Duchesne, and the Liber pontificalis: Classical Philology and Medieval Latin Texts p. 99 / Carmela Vircillo Franklin

6 Bulls and Deer, Women and Warriors: Aristotle's Physics of Morals p. 141 / Giulia Sissa

7 On the Alleged Bastardy of Rhesus: Errant Orphan of Unknown Paternity or Child of Many Genres? p. 177 / Marco Fantuzzi

8 The Greek Canon: A Few Data, Observations, Limits p. 203 / Reviel Netz

9 Homer in the Gutter: From Samuel Butler to the Second Sophistic and Back Again p. 231 / James I. Porter

10 Minus opus moveo: Verse Summaries of Virgil in the Anthologia Latina p. 263 / Scott McGill

11 Minor Roman Poetry in the Discipline and in the Profession of Classics p. 287 / Lowell Edmunds

12 Epilogue: The Space between Subjects p. 313 / Joy Connolly.

Notes:

Based on papers from a conference held at Yale in spring of 2012.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0198818483

9780198818489

OCLC:

1007305506

Publisher Number:

99977879172