Latinitas Perennis. Volume II: Appropriation and Latin Literature

Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-04-17683-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 178, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 566 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History

No cultural phenomenon can remain vital and evolve without a continuous integration of external elements. Instead of reading the process of appropriation in terms of ‘sources’ or ‘models’, the dynamics involved are better understood using more flexible categories such as creative reception, polyphony and dialogue. In every phase of its evolution, in Antiquity, the Middle Ages or (Early) Modern times, Latin literature had to face a double challenge, one from the past, and one from the present: although the models and heritage of the past always remained normative, contemporary demands had to be met too. The contributions in this volume analyze different moments of intercultural negotiation within the long history of Latin Literature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Papy, Jan

Verbaal, Wim

Maes, Yanick

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Mittel- & Neulateinische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Lateinische Literatur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Continuity Through Appropriation? By Way of Introduction, Yanick Maes

PART I: PROGRAMMING APPROPRIATION
2. Roman Dream Works, Christine Walde
3. Exemplarity: Between Practice and Text, Alessandro Barchiesi

PART II: GENRES OLD & NEW
4. The Language of Grief and the Poetics of Conjugal Mourning: From Euripides (Alcestis, Transl. Buchanan) to Joachim Du Bellay (Tumuli [Poematum Libri Quatuor], 1558), George Hugo Tucker
5. Taking Occasion by the Forelock. Dutch Poets and Appropriation of Occasional Poems, Harm-Jan van Dam
6. Vergil, the Psalms, and New Poetic Genres in Medieval Latin Literature, Gunilla Iversen
7. Latin Culture and Oriental Wisdom, Pascale Bourgain

PART III: LINGUISTICS & STYLISTICS
8. Is there such a Thing as a Latin Epochal Style?, Walter Berschin
9. End Game: Humanist Latin In The Late Fifteenth Century, Christopher S. Celenza

Index Nominum

Über Autor(innen)

Yanick Maes, Ph.D. (2005) in Classical Philology, Ghent University, is Doctor Assistant for Latin Literature at Ghent University. He works and publishes on Lucan, Latin elegy, and the use of literature in schools in Antiquity.

Jan Papy, Ph.D. (1992) in Classical Philology, Leuven, is Research Professor of Neo-Latin at the Catholic University of Leuven. He has published on Italian humanism, intellectual history and Renaissance Philosophy in the Low Countries including (with K.A.E. Enenkel) Petrarch and his Readers in the Renaissance (Brill, 2005).

Wim Verbaal, Ph.D. (2000) in Classical Philology, Ghent University, is Professor of Latin Language and Literature at Ghent University. He has published on intellectual history and poetics of the 12th century.