Literature Squared

Self-Reflexivity in Late Antique Literature

Edited by Jesus Hernandez Lobato Edited by Oscar Prieto Dominguez

Extent: 314, 314 pages

Publisher: Brepols Publishers

Subjects: Classical Studies, Literary Studies

Series: Studi e testi tardoantichi

Series volume number: 18

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(May 2020)

ISBN: 9782503586526

Price: $100.00

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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.

Edited by Jesus Hernandez Lobato
Edited by Oscar Prieto Dominguez

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The Johannine Tradition in Late Antique and Medieval Poetry

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Poetic Rewritings in Late Latin Antiquity and Beyond

Volume 23

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Volume 25

By (author) Averil Cameron

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Volume 24

By (author) Franca Ela Consolino

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Volume 21

Edited by Ute Tischer Edited by Thomas Kuhn-Treichel Edited by Stefano Poletti

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Volume 19

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Culture and Literature in Latin Late Antiquity

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Volume 13

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Volume 14

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Nature and the Tradition of Late Latin Christian Poetry

Volume 26

Edited by Luciana Furbetta Edited by Francesco Lubian Edited by Donato De Gianni

Ovid in Late Antiquity

Volume 16

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Humanity, Nature and the Environment in Late Latin Antiquity

Volume 29

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Contributions to the History of Latin Elegiac Distich

Volume 15

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Holy Virgins and Blessed Rulers

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Volume 27

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