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Marginality, Canonicity, Passion (Hardcover)
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Marginality, Canonicity, Passion (Hardcover)
Series: Classical Presences
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In recent years, the discipline of Classics has been experiencing a
profound transformation affecting not only its methodologies and
hermeneutic practices - how classicists read and interpret ancient
literature - but also, and more importantly, the objects of
classical study themselves. One of the most important factors has
been the establishment of reception studies, examining the ways in
which classical literature and culture have been appropriated or
responded to in later ages and/or non-western cultures. This
temporal and cultural expansion beyond the 'traditional' remit of
the field has had many salutary effects, but reception studies are
not without limitations: of particular consequence is a tendency to
focus almost exclusively on the most canonical Greek and Latin
texts which is partly due to the sheer scale on which they have
been received, adapted, discussed, and alluded to since antiquity.
By definition, reception studies are uninterested in texts which
have had no 'success', but the result of an implicit adoption of
canonicity as an unspoken criterion is the marginalization of other
texts which, despite their inherent value, have not experienced so
significant a Nachleben. This volume seeks to move beyond the
questions of what is central, what is marginal, and why, to explore
instead the range and significance of the classical canon and the
processes by which it is shaped and changed by its reception in
different academic and cultural environments. By examining the
academic study of Classics from the interrelated titular
perspectives of marginality, canonicity, and passion, it aims to
unveil their many subtle implications and reopen a discussion not
only about what makes the discipline unique, but also about what
direction it might take in the future.
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