Unspoken Rome : absence in Latin literature and its reception / edited by Tom Geue, Elena Giusti.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Geue, Tom, editor.

Giusti, Elena, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin literature--History and criticism--Congresses.

Latin literature.

Absence in literature--Congresses.

Absence in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 379 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

Latin literature is a hotbed of holes and erasures. Its sensitivity to politics leaves it ripe for repression of all sorts of names, places and historical events, while its dense allusivity appears to hide interpretative clues in a network of texts that only the reader's consciousness can make present. This volume showcases innovative approaches to the field of Latin literature, all of which are refracted through this prism of absence, which functions as a fundamental generative force both for the hermeneutics and the ongoing literary aftermath of these texts. Reviewing and working with various influential approaches to textual absence, the contributors to Unspoken Rome treat these texts as silent types, listening out for what they do not say, and how they do not speak, whilst also tracing the ill-defined borders within which scholars and modern authors are legitimized to fill in the silences around which they are built.

Contents:

Introduction / Tom Geue and Elena Giusti

Absence in text. Catullus' Sapphic lacuna : a palimsest of absences and presences / Ábel Tamás

Speaking aposiopeseis : the (generic) sound of silence in Statius' Thebaid / Stefano Briguglio

Allegorical absences : Virgin, Ovid, Prudentius and Claudian / Philip Hardie

Tamen apsentes prosunt pro praesentibus : proxied absences and Roman comedy / Giuseppe Pezzini

Absence left wanting : the groove in Ovid's Remedia / Victoria Rimell

The gaze on the void : hermeneutic responses to Dido's first appearance / Viola Starnone

Absence in Context. Speaking silence in Cicero's Brutus and Tacitus' Dialogus de Oratoribus / Kathrin Winter

Et sine auctore notissimi versus : unauthored poetry and Rome's authoritative turn / Barbara del Giovane

Looking for the emperor in Seneca's letters / Catharine Edwards

Marcus Aurelius : Medi()ations, not medi(c)ations / John Henderson

Lost in Germania : the absence of history in Tacitus' ethnography / James McNamara

Conspicuous absence : Tacitus' de Re Publica / Ellen O'Gorman

Going Beyond. The slave, between absence and presence / William Fitzgerald

In search of the lost city : the enduring absence of Pompeii / Joanna Paul

Omnibus umbra locis adero : Elena Ferrante and the poetics of absence / Francesca Bellei

The philology of grief : Catallus 101 and Anne Carson's Nox / Erik Fredericksen

Absence, metaphysically speaking : from reception to instauration? / Duncan Kennedy

Afterword : lights out / Emily Gowers.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 06 Sep 2021).

ISBN:

1-108-91384-9