Imitative Series and Clusters from Classical to Early Modern Literature

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-11-069950-0
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, 358 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 775 g

Reihe: Trends in classics - pathways of reception

This volume shows the pervasiveness over a millennium and a half of the little-studied phenomenon of multi-tier intertextuality, whether as ‘linear’ window reference – where author C simultaneously imitates or alludes to a text by author A and its imitation by author B – or as multi-directional imitative clusters. It begins with essays on classical literature from Homer to the high Roman empire, where the feature first becomes prominent; then comes late antiquity, a lively area of research at present; and, after a series of essays on European neo-Latin literature from Petrarch to 1600, another area where developments are moving rapidly, the volume concludes with early modern vernacular literatures (Italian, French, Portuguese and English). Most papers concern verse, but prose is not ignored. The introduction to the volume discusses the relevant methodological issues. An Afterword outlines the critical history of ‘window reference’ and includes a short essay by Professor Richard Thomas, of Harvard University, who coined the term in the 1980s.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and students of classics, medieval, neo-Latin and early

Autoren/Hrsg.

Burrow, Colin

Tarantino, Elisabetta

Harrison, Stephen J.

Mclaughlin, Martin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Rezeption, literarische Einflüsse und Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft

Über Autor(innen)

Colin Burrow, Stephen Harrison, and Martin McLaughlin, University of Oxford, UK; Elisabetta Tarantino, independent scholar.