Imitative series and clusters from classical to early modern literature / edited by Colin Burrow [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Burrow, Colin, editor.

Series:

Trends in Classics – Pathways of Reception ; 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intertextuality.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XIII, 358 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This volume shows the pervasiveness over a millennium and a half of the little-studied phenomenon of multi-tier intertextuality, whether as ‘linear’ window reference – where author C simultaneously imitates or alludes to a text by author A and its imitation by author B – or as multi-directional imitative clusters. It begins with essays on classical literature from Homer to the high Roman empire, where the feature first becomes prominent; then comes late antiquity, a lively area of research at present; and, after a series of essays on European neo-Latin literature from Petrarch to 1600, another area where developments are moving rapidly, the volume concludes with early modern vernacular literatures (Italian, French, Portuguese and English). Most papers concern verse, but prose is not ignored. The introduction to the volume discusses the relevant methodological issues. An Afterword outlines the critical history of ‘window reference’ and includes a short essay by Professor Richard Thomas, of Harvard University, who coined the term in the 1980s.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

List of Tables

Bibliographical Note

Introduction: Seeing Through Texts

Serial Similes in the Battle-Narrative of Virgil’s Aeneid

The Constant Helmsman: Acoetes, Palinurus, and the Homeric Hymn to Dionysus

Fisher of Men: A New Reading of Ausonius’ Catalogue of Fish

The Works of the Sea: Mapping the Itineraries of Imitation in Late Antique Epic

Transgressing Pastoral: Mediated Responses to Aeneid 6 in Calpurnius, Nemesianus, and the Carmina Einsiedlensia

Window Reference in Latin Bucolic: The Case of Martius Valerius

The Chain of Imitations in Petrarch’s Africa

Multiple Allusivity in Girolamo Vida’s De Arte Poetica

Virgo laetissima: The Art of Allusion in Sannazaro’s De partu Virginis

Windows on the World: The Literary Revolutions of Adam King’s Genethliacon Iesu Christi

Imitation and Allusion in Machiavelli’s Istorie fiorentine: Between Contemporary Sources and Classical Models

‘Un traict à la comparaison de ces couples’: Seneca’s Poets and Epicurean Senecanisms in Montaigne’s Essais

Reading through the Sound of Trumpets: Camões’s Political Opinions and the Pattern of Allusion in Os Lusíadas

Allusion and Horror: The Afterlives of Polydorus

‘An huge great stone’: Two Types of Allusion in The Faerie Queene

What’s in a Blush? Constellating Aeneid 12.64–9 and Amores 2.5.33–40 in Spenser’s Legend of Chastity

Editors’ Afterword on Window Reference

Window on the Eighties

Works Cited

Notes on Contributors

Name Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110699593

3110699591

OCLC:

1197561110