Literature and society in the fourth century AD: performing paideia, constructing the present, presenting the self

by Hoof, Lieve Van Van Nuffelen, Peter

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Title Statements

Full title :Literature and society in the fourth century AD : performing paideia, constructing the present, presenting the self / edited by Lieve van Hoof and Peter van Nuffelen.

Summary

"Late Antiquity is often assumed to have witnessed the demise of literature as a social force and its retreat into the school and the private reading room: whereas the sophists of the Second Sophistic were influential social players, their late antique counterparts are thought to have been overshadowed by bishops. Literature and Society in the Fourth Century AD argues that this presumed difference should be attributed less to a fundamental change in the role of literature than to different scholarly methodologies with which Greek and Latin texts from the second and the fourth century are being studied. Focusing on performance, the literary construction of reality and self-presentation, this volume highlights how literature continued to play an important role in fourth-century elite society."--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2015

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Brill
Place of Publication:Leiden
Language:eng
Publication Date:2015

The Physical Object

Description:x, 247 pages ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9789004278486, 9004278486
oclc:ocn884242721
LC Classification:PA6043
Dewey Decimal:870.9/001

Subjects

Christian literature, Early Christian literature, Early -- History … Criticism, interpretation, etc Frühchristentum Latein Latin literature Latin literature -- History and critici… Latinsk fornkristen litteratur -- histo… Latinsk litteratur -- historia Literatur Literature and society Litteratur och samhälle Littérature chrétienne primitive -- His… Littérature et société Littérature latine -- Histoire et criti… Sozialgeschichte Spätantike