Parentheses of reception / edited by John T. Hamilton, Evina Sistakou and Martin Vöhler

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hamilton, John T., editor.

Sistakou, Evina, editor.

Vöhler, Martin, editor.

Series:

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; 185.

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; volume 185

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Classical languages--Parenthetical constructions.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Parenthetical constructions.

Figures of speech in literature.

Comparative literature--Themes, motives.

Arts--Themes, motives.

Classical literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Conference papers and proceedings

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations

illustrations

black and white

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2025]

Summary:

"The volume argues that the parenthesis, a rhetorical figure of speech and thought, can offer fresh insights into classical reception studies. By using the analogy of the parenthesis, we may conceptualize the received past as inserted into the present while remaining somehow apart from the present. Hence Graeco-Roman antiquity is considered as being simultaneously ‘in’ and ‘to the side of’ the receptive work. Along these lines, the volume reviews parenthesis as a heuristic tool in ancient and modern cultures, by applying it to various artistic media such as literature, theatre, art and cinema and to disciplines such as scholarship and translation. The 22 chapters of the volume are written by scholars specializing in classics, aesthetics, comparative literature and cultural studies, thus highlighting the ‘parentheses of reception’ as a fascinating topic that may attract readers from different disciplines and academic fields"-- De Gruyter Brill

The rhetorical figure of the parenthesis is proposed to reconsider classical reception as a site where Graeco-Roman antiquity is simultaneously 'in' and 'to the side of' the receptive work. The chapters in this volume offer fresh approaches to the history and theory of classical reception by considering parenthetic structures across eras, artistic media and disciplines

Contents:

Roman comedy and (Greek) comedy / Richard Hunter

Fragmenting a conversation on otium : Catullus 51.1–16 as parenthesis between Calvus and Ennius / Antje Wessels

Silent witnesses and implausible judgements : echoes of direct speech in Catullus’ song of the Parcae (Catull. 64) / Karin Schlapbach

Filling narrative gaps and bracketing information in (Pseudo)Senecan tragedy / Therese Fuhrer

The ‘hidden’ flirt with antiquity : a parenthesis in C.P. Cavafy’s early poetical work / Michalis Chryssanthopoulos

A part apart : Niobe in Günter Grass’s Tin Drum / John T. Hamilton

Lyric digression, parenthesis, asides : Horace and Dylan / Richard Thomas

Rethinking Ovidian womanhood in Carol Ann Duffy’s “Eurydice” / Stella Alekou

Three witches – three unities : Aristotle in Macbeth / Eckart Goebel

Embracing antiquity : Brecht’s Antigone-model 1948 / Martin Vöhler

Philology as parenthesis : philological theory around 1800 and its contemporary potentials (Friedrich Schlegel, August Boeckh) / Mark-Georg Dehrmann

Artemidorus and the question of method in Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams / Felix Christen

Rachel Bespaloff reads (Homer) / James I. Porter

Antiquity’s parenthesis and the poetics of dissociative time : political outsideness and futurity in and through Foucault’s Cynic parrhesia / Alexandra Lianeri

Translating for the dead : Moshe Ha-Elion’s Homeric translations into Salonican Ladino / Richard H. Armstrong

Inside and outside : David Hadbawnik’s verse version of Vergil’s Aeneid / Stephen Harrison

Reversible nestings of the mythic and the real (Velázquez, Feast of Bacchus) / Christopher S. Wood

Illustration in and to the side of eighteenth-century antiquarianism / Daniel Orrells

Fragment-bodies : Rodin’s and Rilke’s torsos / Michael Lüthy

The classics in Viennese modernity : a Hesiodic parenthesis in Gustav Klimt’s Beethoven Frieze / Evina Sistakou

On parenthetical receptions of the classical : intermediality, nesting, and the gender of the universal (Twombly’s Achilles, Woodman’s Daphne) / Brooke Holmes

Narrative and parenthesis : from Homeric simile to cinematic flashback / Martin M. Winkler

Notes:

Proceedings of the 17th Trends in Classics International Conference held at Thessaloniki, 1-3 June 2023

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed July 16, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version: Parentheses of reception

ISBN:

9783111679167

3111679160

9783111679105

3111679101

OCLC:

1514975873

Publisher Number:

CIPO000225461

Access Restriction:

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