Literature squared: self-reflexivity in late antique literature

by Hernández Lobato, Jesús Prieto Dominguez, Oscar

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Full title :Literature squared : self-reflexivity in late antique literature / edited by Jesús Hernández Lobato, Óscar Prieto Domínguez.

Summary

This collection of essays focuses on a crucial aspect of late antique thought and literature that has hitherto largely been neglected: its self-reflexivity, i.e. its unprecedented ability to make language and literature into its main and often its only subject matter. Adopting a variety of perspectives and methodologies, the essays included in this volume approach the notion of self-reflexivity in two main ways. On the one hand (literature as a reflection of literature), it implies a self-conscious reflection of preceding literary models, which are creatively mirrored in new but intrinsically derivative works of art, taking the form of remakes, parodies, homages, commentaries, retellings, centos, paraphrases, allegorizations, and more or less free re-enactments. On the other hand (literature as reflection on literature), the term also implies a self-questioning reflection on the literary work and the very concepts of language and literature, thus referring to its own artificiality or contrivance while opening up all sorts of theoretical discussions of the mechanisms, the conventions, and even the relevance of linguistic and literary representation.

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Publication Date:2020

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Brepols
Place of Publication:Turnhout, Belgium
Language:eng
Publication Date:2020

The Physical Object

Description:314 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9782503586526, 250358652X, 9782503586533, 2503586538
oclc:on1127975052
LC Classification:PN611
Dewey Decimal:809/.01

Introduction (Óscar Prieto Domínguez & Jesús Hernández Lobato) ; I. Reflecting Literature. The Literary Horizons of the Poem In Euangelia (Aaron Pelttari) ; Pinguia alabastra: Metaliterature and Intertextuality in Sidonius Apollinaris{u2019} Carmen 9 (Marco Onorato) ; A Poet in Seventh Heaven: A New Reading of the Numerical Construction of Ausonius{u2019} Mosella (Jesús Hernández Lobato) ; Lasciuire uetat mascula dictio: Metaliterary Reflections on Poems in Late Antique Prose Letters (Margot Neger) ; Literary Reflections in Hagiographical Proems (Óscar Prieto Domínguez) ; The Chaste Bee and the Promiscuous Bee: Poetic Self-Reflexivity in John of Gaza{u2019}s Ekphrasis and the Cycle of Agathias (Steven D. Smith) ; II. Reflecting on Literature. Il volo di Medea e la voce della Ragione. Metaletteratura e autoriflessività nei Soliloquia di Agostino (Giovanni Catapano) ; Unity in Late Latin Poetry (Helen Kaufmann) ; A Dancing Dwarf: Luxorius, Epic, and Epigram (Clare Coombe) ; Le discours des poètes de l{u2019}Anthologie latine d{u2019}époque vandale sur leur production épigrammatique (Etienne Wolff) ; A Poet and his Fault: Metaliterary Hints in Dracontius{u2019} Satisfactio (Maria Jen…