Deskription und Metapoetik in der spätantiken lateinischen Dichtung Untersuchungen zur literarischen Beschreibung bei Claudian, Prudenz und Ausonius
Literary description emerges as one of the central elements of late antique poetry. It serves a dual role in that it interacts both to represent multisensory perceptions and to break through the illusion it creates through metapoetic discourse. This self-referentiality makes the late antique descrip...
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| Format: | Electronic Book Chapter |
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Berlin/Boston
De Gruyter
2022
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| Series: | Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies
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| Summary: | Literary description emerges as one of the central elements of late antique poetry. It serves a dual role in that it interacts both to represent multisensory perceptions and to break through the illusion it creates through metapoetic discourse. This self-referentiality makes the late antique descriptive a space of intense literary communication between poet and readership in different genres and contexts. This study systematically examines the textual strategies of description in selected works by the poets Claudian, Prudence and Ausonius, who were active between the late 4th and early 5th centuries. The texts are analysed with regard to ancient conceptualisations of descriptio and with the help of modern models of literary and cultural studies. The texts show both a continuation and an intensification of already existing traditions, which are expressed in a productive use of intertexts, a complex mediality and a textual world that plays with distance and proximity. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 electronic resource (296 p.) |
| ISBN: | 9783111012698 9783111007106 9783111012896 |
| Access: | Open Access |