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Labor imperfectus : unfinished, incomplete, partial texts in classical antiquity / edited by Jacqueline Fabre-Serris, Marco Formisano and Stavros Frangoulidis.
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2024]
©2024
Description
1 online resource (ix, 432 pages) : illustrations.
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Subject(s)
Classical literature
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History and criticism
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Classical literature
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Manuscripts
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Editor
Fabre-Serris, Jacqueline
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Formisano, Marco
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Frangoulidis, Stavros A.
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Series
Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; v. 157.
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Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; volume 157
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Summary note
Unfinishedness and incompleteness are a central feature of ancient Greek and Roman literature that has often been taken for granted but not deeply examined; many texts have been transmitted to us incomplete. How and to what extent has this feature of many texts influenced their aesthetic perception and interpretation, and how does it still influence them today? Also, how do various editorial arrangements of fragmentary texts influence the reconstruction of closure? These important questions offer the opportunity to bring together specialists working on Greek and Roman texts across various genres: epic, tragedy, poetry, mythographic texts, rhetorical texts, philosophical treatises, and the novel. Reading a text by focusing on its current unfinishedness or incompleteness, or the textual signs suggesting an unfinished or incomplete state, the contributors examine the relations between author, reader and text as underscored by the verbal, generic and aesthetic features of each work. This edited volume brings together a broad spectrum of approaches to ancient and modern texts and aims to reach out to a broad scholarly community consisting not only of Classicists but also scholars of other literature and aesthetics.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Source of description
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 23, 2024)
Contents
Intro
Preface
Contents
List of Figures
Introduction
Part I: Facing Unfinishedness
From the Authorial to the Editorial tour de force: How to Read Callimachus' Aetia and Hecale
How to Walk Along a Pioneer's Fragmentary Track: Theophrastus' Meteorological Studies
Fragments of Roman Sexuality in Petronius' Satyricon
Part II: Questioning (In)Completeness
The "Alexandrian End" of the Odyssey
Reconsidering Closure in Ovid's Fasti
Statius' Achilleid: How to Break off a carmen perpetuum
Literatura Incompleta: Borges' Antiquity between World and Universe
Part III: Constitutive Unfinishedness
Sed redeo ad formulam (Off. 3.20): Completeness and Imperfection in Cicero's De officiis
Relativizing Unfinishedness: Lucretian Textuality and Epicurean Therapy
The Fragment as a Form: A Reading of Fragments d'un discours amoureux by Barthes
Arrhythmic Historiography, Lost Letters and Broken Meanings: Fulgentius's De aetatibus mundi et hominis
"This City Will Always Pursue You": The Impossible End of Rutilius Namatianus' Return
Part IV: Reading Unfinishedness
Finishing Iphigenia in Aulis
Seneca's Phoenissae: In Search of an Ending
How to Read Hyginus' Fabulae? Theories and Practices
The Rest was not Perfected: Platonic Endings and their Modern Echoes
War as a Permanent Civil War: The "Unfinished" History in Pasolini's Petrolio
Part V: Searching for Completion
The Missing Conclusion to Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica
Speaking Silences: The Incompleteness of Tacitus' Annals and Gustav Freytag's Die verlorene Handschrift
Putting an Unfinished Novel Back into Motion: A Digital Tool to Create Possible "Second Volumes" of Bouvard et Pécuchet
List of Contributors
General Index
Index of Passages.
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ISBN
3-11-134094-5
9783111340944
3111340945
OCLC
1415210839
Doi
10.1515/9783111340944
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