Poetic rewritings in Late Latin Antiquity and beyond / edited by Stefania Filosini.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Filosini, Stefania, editor.

Conference Name:

Riscritture poetiche nell'Occidente latino tra tarda antichità e medievo (Conference) (2022 : L'Aquila, Italy)

Series:

Studi e testi tardoantichi ; 23.

Studi e testi tardoantichi ; 23

Language:

English

French

Italian

Subjects (All):

Latin poetry--History and criticism--Congresses.

Latin poetry.

Adaptation (Literary, artistic, etc.)--Congresses.

Adaptation (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Physical Description:

520 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols Publishers, [2024]

Language Note:

Includes contributions in English, French and Italian.

Summary:

'Rewriting' as the reworking of narrative material based on conscious strategies of composition plays a significant role in much of the Latin poetry of Late Antiquity. This book, resulting from the conference Riscritture poetiche nell'Occidente latino tra tarda antichità e medioevo, which was held on 9-11 May 2022 at the Department of Human Sciences (DSU) of the University of L'Aquila, looks at the range of practices and purposes that inform this procedure, with particular regard to the processes of transcodification enacted - in different historical and cultural contexts - by the recasting of authoritative prose texts into a classicising poetic idiom. The contributions present a multifaceted approach to rewriting, cover a variety of authors, genres, and texts, and cast a glance also at medieval Latin literature. In short, the essays in this collection, by reflecting on the interpretative contribution of the critical category of 'rewriting', not only add further tesserae to the mosaic of literary studies on Late Latinity, they also invite to grasp the difference between secular and Christian rewritings.

Notes:

"Poetic rewritings in Late Latin Antiquity and beyond' brings together the papers presented at the international conference entitled 'Riscritture poetiche nell'Occidente latino tra tarda antichità e medievo', which was held in L'Aquila on 9, 10 and 11 May 2022. [...]"--Introduction.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

2503610242

9782503610245

OCLC:

1427941915

Publisher Number:

90100581817