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Product Identifiers
PublisherBrepols Publishers
ISBN-102503610242
ISBN-139782503610245
eBay Product ID (ePID)14066404415
Product Key Features
Number of Pages520 Pages
LanguageEng,Fre,Ita
Publication NamePoetic Rewritings in Late Latin Antiquity and Beyond
Publication Year2024
SubjectPoetry, Ancient & Classical
TypeTextbook
AuthorStefania Filosini
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism
SeriesStudi E Testi Tardoantichi Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Weight30.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
Series Volume Number23
SynopsisRewriting as the reworking of narrative material based on conscious strategies of composition plays a significant role in much of the Latin poetry of Late Antiquity. This book, resulting from the conference Riscritture poetiche nellOccidente latino tra tarda antichita e medioevo, which was held on 9-11 May 2022 at the Department of Human Sciences (DSU) of the University of LAquila, looks at the range of practices and purposes that inform this procedure, with particular regard to the processes of transcodification enacted in different historical and cultural contexts by the recasting of authoritative prose texts into a classicising poetic idiom. The contributions present a multifaceted approach to rewriting, cover a variety of authors, genres, and texts, and cast a glance also at medieval Latin literature. In short, the essays in this collection, by reflecting on the interpretative contribution of the critical category of rewriting, not only add further tesserae to the mosaic of literary studies on Late Latinity, they also invite to grasp the difference between secular and Christian rewritings.
