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Theodore D. Papanghelis, Stephen J. Harrison, Stavros Frangoulidis (éd.), Generic Interfaces in Latin Literature. Encounters, Interactions and Transformations, Berlin and Boston, 2013.

Éditeur : De Gruyter
Collection : Trends in Classics-Supplementary volumes 20
x, 478 pages
ISBN : 978-3-11-030369-8

Neither older empiricist positions that genre is an abstract concept, useless for the study of individual works of literature, nor the recent (post) modern reluctance to subject literary production to any kind of classification seem to have stilled the discussion on the various aspects of genre in classical literature. Having moved from more or less essentialist and/or prescriptive positions towards a more dynamic conception of the generic model, research on genre is currently considering "pushing beyond the boundaries", "impurity", "instability", "enrichment" and "genre-bending". The aim of this volume is to raise questions of such generic mobility in Latin literature. The papers explore ways in which works assigned to a particular generic area play host to formal and substantive elements associated with different or even opposing genres; assess literary works which seem to challenge perceived generic norms; highlight, along the literary-historical, the ideological and political backgrounds to "dislocations" of the generic map.

Articles include:

Stephen J. Harrison, Introduction
Gregory Hutchinson, Genre and Super-Genre
Ahuvia Kahane, The (Dis)continuity of Genre: A Comment on the Romans and the Greeks
Carole Newlands, Architectural Ecphrasis in Roman Poetry
Therese Fuhrer, Hypertexts and Auxiliary Texts: New Genres in Late Antiquity?
Katharina Volk, The Genre of Cicero's De consulatu suo
Robert Cowan, Fear and Loathing in Lucretius: Latent Tragedy and Anti-Allusion in DRN 3
Andrew Zissos, Lucan and Caesar: Epic and Commentarius
Marco Fantuzzi, Achilles and the improba virgo: Ovid, Ars am. 1.681–704 and Statius, Ach. 1.514–35 on Achilles at Scyros
Stephen Hinds, Claudianism in the De Raptu Proserpinae
Philip Hardie, Shepherds' Songs: Generic Variation in Renaissance Latin Epic
Theodore D. Papanghelis, Too Much Semiotics will Spoil the Genre: The Pastoral Unscription in Virgil, Ecl. 10.53–4 205
Helen Peraki-Kyriakidou, Virgil's Eclogue 4.60–3: A Space of Generic Enrichment
Evangelos Karakasis, Comedy and Elegy in Calpurnian Pastoral: ‘Generic Interplays' in Calp. 3 231
Stavros Frangoulidis, Transformations of Paraclausithyron in Plautus' Curculio
Frances Muecke, The Invention of Satire: A Paradigmatic Case?
Kirk Freudenburg, The Afterlife of Varro in Horace's Sermones
Richard Hunter, One Verse of Mimnermus? Latin Elegy and Archaic Greek Elegy
Stratis Kyriakidis, The Poet's Afterlife: Ovid between Epic and Elegy
Stephen J. Harrison, Didactic and Lyric in Horace Odes 2: Lucretius and Vergil
Roy K. Gibson, Letters into Autobiography: The Generic Mobility of the Ancient Letter Collection
Christina Shuttleworth Kraus, Is historia a Genre? (With Notes on Caesar's First Landing in Britain, BG 4.24–5)
Rhiannon Ash, Tacitean Fusion: Tiberius the Satirist?
David Konstan, Apollonius King of Tyre: Between Novel and New Comedy

Source : Walter de Gruyter