Reading late antiquity

Reading late antiquity

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"The field of Late Antique studies has involved self-reflexion and criticism since its emergence in the late nineteenth century, but in recent years there has been a widespread desire to retrace our steps more systematically and to inquire into the millennial history of previous interpretations, historicization and uses of the end of the Greco-Roman world. This volume contributes to that enterprise. It emphasizes an aspect of Late Antiquity reception that ensues from its subordination to the Cl…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Reading late antiquity / Sigrid Schottenius Cullhed, Mats Malm (eds.).

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"The field of Late Antique studies has involved self-reflexion and criticism since its emergence in the late nineteenth century, but in recent years there has been a widespread desire to retrace our steps more systematically and to inquire into the millennial history of previous interpretations, historicization and uses of the end of the Greco-Roman world. This volume contributes to that enterprise. It emphasizes an aspect of Late Antiquity reception that ensues from its subordination to the Classical tradition, namely its tendency to slip in and out of western consciousness. Narratives and artifacts associated with this period have gained attention, often in times of crisis and change, and exercised influence only to disappear again. When later readers have turned to the same period and identified with what they perceive, they have tended to ascribe the feeling of relatedness to similar values and circumstances rather than to the formation of an unbroken tradition of appropriation."

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  • Publication Date:©2018

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International conference proceedings.

Selection of papers presented at conference held at the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities in Stockholm, May 8-9, 2015.

The Physical Object

  • Description:267 pages : : illustrations (some color) ; : 25 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9783825367879, 3825367878
  • oclc:on1020769569
  • LC Classification:PN883
  • Dewey Decimal:480

Table of Contents

I. Theoretical outlooks. -- Untimely antiquity : Walter Pater and the Vigil of Venus / James Uden -- Fragments, allegory, and anachronicity : Walter Benjamin and Claudian / Marco Formisano -- Late Antique foundations of postmodern theory : a critical overview / Jesús Hernández Lobato -- II Decadence and decline. -- Decline and renascence : re-reading the Late Antiquity of Jacob Burckhardt / Olof Heilo -- Reading against the grain : late Latin literature in Huysmans' À rebours / Scott McGill -- Late Antiquity, a gentleman scholar and the decline of cultures : Oswald Spengler and Der Untergang des Abendlandes / Stefan Rebenich -- Rome post mortem : the many returns of Rutilius Namatianus / Sigrid Schottenius -- Alma Johanna Koenigs Der heilige Palast : the rise and fall of Theodora in the Belletrist of the Wiener moderns / Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer -- A Byzantine Phaedra between paganism, heresy and magic : the tragic fate of Silvana in La fiamma by Ottorino Respighi and Claudio Guastalla (1934) / Chiara O. Tommasi -- III. Continuities and transformation. -- Versifications of the Book of Jonah : late antique to late medieval / Ad Putter -- Literary mimesis and the late antique…

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