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First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
This collective work represents the cutting edge of critical
thinking on Greek and Roman literature in America today. The essays
bridge the gap between classical studies and current work on modern
European literature by addressing a spectrum of authors, genres,
and literary problems, from archaic Greece to late antiquity and
beyond. The contributors share no single theoretical vantage point,
except for the belief that methodological self-consciousness and
rigor produce the strongest criticism. Each of the essays instructs
the reader generally about the enterprise of literary criticism by
demonstrating procedures useful to the close reading of ancient
texts. Although each piece stands independently on its own merits,
it is as a whole that the essays make the strongest statement. The
volume is organized by theoretical issue, with introductions to
each section.
Featuring leading scholars in their fields, this book examines
receptions of ancient and early modern literary works from around
the world (China, Japan, Ancient Maya, Ancient Mediterranean,
Ancient India, Ancient Mesopotamia) that have circulated globally
across time and space (from East to West, North to South, South to
West). Beginning with the premise of an enduring and revered
cultural past, the essays go on to show how the circulation of
literature through translation and other forms of reception in fact
long predates modern global society; the idea of national literary
canons have existed just over a hundred years and emerged with the
idea of national educational curricula. Highlighting the
relationship of culture and politics in which canons are created,
translated, promulgated, and preserved, this book argues that such
nationally-defined curricula were challenged by critics and writers
in the wake of the Second World War.
Featuring leading scholars in their fields, this book examines
receptions of ancient and early modern literary works from around
the world (China, Japan, Ancient Maya, Ancient Mediterranean,
Ancient India, Ancient Mesopotamia) that have circulated globally
across time and space (from East to West, North to South, South to
West). Beginning with the premise of an enduring and revered
cultural past, the essays go on to show how the circulation of
literature through translation and other forms of reception in fact
long predates modern global society; the idea of national literary
canons have existed just over a hundred years and emerged with the
idea of national educational curricula. Highlighting the
relationship of culture and politics in which canons are created,
translated, promulgated, and preserved, this book argues that such
nationally-defined curricula were challenged by critics and writers
in the wake of the Second World War.
When does imitation of an author morph into masquerade? Although
the Roman writer Ovid died in the first century CE, many new Latin
poems were ascribed to him from the sixth until the fifteenth
century. Like the Appendix Vergiliana, these verses reflect
different understandings of an admired Classical poet and expand
his legacy throughout the Middle Ages. The works of the "medieval
Ovid" mirror the dazzling variety of their original. The Appendix
Ovidiana includes narrative poetry that recounts the adventures of
both real and imaginary creatures, erotic poetry that wrestles with
powerful desires and sexual violence, and religious poetry
that-despite the historical Ovid's paganism-envisions the birth,
death, and resurrection of Christ. This is the first comprehensive
collection and English translation of these pseudonymous medieval
Latin poems.
The twenty-eight essays in this Handbook represent the best of
current thinking in the study of Latin language and literature in
the Middle Ages. The insights offered by the collective of authors
not only illuminate the field of medieval Latin literature but shed
new light on broader questions of literary history, cultural
interaction, world literature, and language in history and society.
The contributors to this volume--a collection of both senior
scholars and gifted young thinkers--vividly illustrate the field's
complexities on a wide range of topics through carefully chosen
examples and challenges to settled answers of the past. At the same
time, they suggest future possibilities for the necessarily
provisional and open-ended work essential to the pursuit of
medieval Latin studies. While advanced specialists will find much
here to engage and at times to provoke them, this handbook
successfully orients non-specialists and students to this thriving
field of study. The overall approach of The Oxford Handbook of
Medieval Latin Literature makes this volume an essential resource
for students of the ancient world interested in the prolonged
after-life of the classical period's cultural complexes, for
medieval historians, for scholars of other medieval literary
traditions, and for all those interested in delving more deeply
into the fascinating more-than-millennium that forms the bridge
between the ancient Mediterranean world and what we consider
modernity.
The twenty-eight essays in this handbook represent the best current
thinking in the study of Latin language and literature in the
Middle Ages. Contributing authors-both senior scholars and gifted
younger thinkers among them-not only illuminate the field as
traditionally defined but also offer fresh insights into broader
questions of literary history, cultural interaction, world
literature, and language in history and society. Their studies
vividly illustrate the field's complexities on a wide range of
topics, including canonicity, literary styles and genres, and the
materiality of manuscript culture. At the same time, they suggest
future possibilities for the necessarily provisional and open-ended
work essential to the pursuit of medieval Latin studies. The
overall approach of The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Latin
Literature makes this volume an essential resource for students of
the ancient world interested in the prolonged after-life of the
classical period's cultural complexes, for medieval historians, for
scholars of other medieval literary traditions, and for all those
interested in delving more deeply into the fascinating
more-than-millennium-long passage between the ancient Mediterranean
world and what we consider modernity.
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