A Late Antique Poetics? : The Jeweled Style Revisited / edited by Joshua Hartman and Helen Kaufmann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hartman, Joshua, editor.

Kaufmann, Helen, editor.

Series:

sera tela: Studies in Late Antique Literature and Its Reception.

sera tela: Studies in Late Antique Literature and Its Reception

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin poetry--History and criticism.

Latin poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2023.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.

System Details:

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Summary:

The poetry of the late Roman world has a fascinating history. Sometimes an object of derision, sometimes an object of admiration, it has found numerous detractors and defenders among classicists and Latin literary critics. This volume explores the scholarly approaches to late Latin poetry that have developed over the last 40 years, and it seeks especially to develop, complement and challenge the seminal concept of the 'Jeweled Style' proposed by Michael Roberts in 1989. While Roberts's monograph has long been a vade mecum within the world of late antique literary studies, a critical reassessment of its validity as a concept is overdue. This volume invites established and emerging scholars from different research traditions to return to the influential conclusions put forward by Roberts. It asks them to examine the continued relevance of The Jeweled Style and to suggest new ways to engage it. In a joint effort, the nineteen chapters of this volume define and map the jeweled style, extending it to new genres, geographic regions, time periods and methodologies. Each contribution seeks to provide insightful analysis that integrates the last 30 years of scholarship while pursuing ambitious applications of the jeweled style within and beyond the world of late antiquity.

Contents:

Cover page

Halftitle page

Series

Title page

Copyright page

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

CONTRIBUTORS

SERIES EDITOR PREFACE

PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

NOTE ON TEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS

ABBREVIATIONS

INTRODUCTION

The formal features of the jeweled style

The jeweled style and late antique aesthetics

PART I THE FORMAL FEATURES OF THE JEWELED STYLE

CHAPTER 1 THE DECADENT PREHISTORY OF THE JEWELED STYLE

Introduction: A chain of receptions

The language of jewels

The orientalism of the jeweled style

The aesthetics of decadence

From decadence to diversity

Conclusion: Towards a brighter future

CHAPTER 2 THE GREEK JEWELED STYLE

A Greek jeweled style in the third century?

The Greek jeweled style in the fourth and fifth centuries

Jeweled Christian prose and un-jeweled biblical poetry

CHAPTER 3 GILDING THE LILY: THE JEWELED STYLE IN PROSE PANEGYRIC

Non-metrical word patterning

Catalogues

Quotations and sententiae

Ecphrasis

Conclusion

CHAPTER 4 LEARNING THE JEWELED STYLE

Introduction

Schools in late antiquity

Classroom poetics in late antiquity

Polychromatic style

Variatio of vocabulary and theme

Description and structure

CHAPTER 5 QUANTITATIVE APPROACHES TO LATE ANTIQUE POETICS: ENUMERATION AND CONGERIES

Methods and context

Methodological limitations and restrictions

Interpretation of findings

CHAPTER 6 THE JEWELED STYLE AND SILVER LATIN SCHOLARSHIP

Reclaiming the wood from the trees: Developments in scholarship on Silver Latin tree catalogues

The danger of discouraging contextual significance

The danger of overlooking the dynamics

CHAPTER 7 THE JEWELED STYLE IN EARLY MEDIEVAL LATIN POETRY

Aldhelm

Hisperica famina

Hucbald, Egloga de calvis

Conclusion.

CHAPTER 8 DIGRESSION, VARIETY AND UNITY IN LATE LATIN POETRY

Digressions in ancient literary criticism and rhetoric

Variety and unity

Digressive rivers

PART II THE JEWELED STYLE AND LATE ANTIQUE AESTHETICS

CHAPTER 9 METAPHOR SQUARED

Arator, Epistula ad Florianum

Ennodius, Carmen 1.9

Merobaudes, Carmen 4

Merobaudes, Panegyricus poeticus

Metaphor squared as a literary technique

CHAPTER 10 AN 'UNJEWELED' CHRISTIAN STYLE? A LOOK AT AUGUSTINE'S CONFESSIONS

The jeweled style as a response to late antique 'logoclasm'

Christian objections to the jeweled style

In quest of a genuinely Christian poetry

Augustine's Confessions: A new poetic paradigm?

CHAPTER 11 THE CENTO AND SCRIPTURE: AN EARLY CHRISTIAN DEBATE OVER THE POETICS OF EXEGESIS

Competition and caution

Decoding Jerome: Ambrose as scriptural centonist

The poet-preacher Ambrose

De obitu Valentiniani as cento

CHAPTER 12 JEWELED SEA STORM DESCRIPTIONS IN ZENO OF VERONA (AND JUVENCUS)

The genera of Latin homiletics and the jeweled style

Sea storms in Zeno of Verona

Sea storms in biblical poetry: the case of Juvencus

Conclusion: Towards an assessment of jeweled Latin homiletics?

CHAPTER 13 ALLUSIVE CLUSTERS AND BIBLICAL CONFIGURATIONS IN DRACONTIUS' DELAUDIBUS DEI: A CHRISTIAN JEWELED STYLE?

Stylistic patterns: Same techniques, new development

Clusters of allusions

A jeweled structure

The influence of patristic and biblical texts

Conclusion: A Christian jeweled style?

CHAPTER 14 VERGIL'S CHILDREN: PATTERNS IN CHRISTIAN CENTOS AND RESPONSES TO VERGIL'S FOURTH ECLOGUE

Cento de Ecclesia

Cento de Verbi Incarnatione

CHAPTER 15 ARCHITECTURAL ECPHRASIS IN VENANTIUS FORTUNATUS: BEYOND THE JEWELED STYLE

The villa and the church

Restorations.

Light in late antique ecphrases of churches

Beyond the jeweled style

CHAPTER 16 THE JEWELED STYLE IN LATE ANTIQUE LATIN EPIGRAM

Tessellated epigrams: Ennodius' jeweled bishops and Christian ecphrastic epigram

Tessellation or exhaustion? Ausonian diadems, Claudian crystals and secular epigrammatic series

CHAPTER 17 THE JEWELED STYLE AND NEOPLATONISM

The 'unity' of Macrobius' Saturnalia

The number seven in Neoplatonism

An epistolary microcosmos: The letter collection of Q. Aurelius Symmachus

EPILOGUE: THE JEWELED STYLE IN CONTEXT

REFERENCES

INDEX RERUM

INDEX NOMINUM

INDEX LOCORUM.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Print version: Hartman, Joshua A Late Antique Poetics?

ISBN:

9781350346437

1350346438

9781350346413

1350346411

OCLC:

1373988487