Imitative Series and Clusters from Classical to Early Modern Literature

Published by De Gruyter 2020

Imitative Series and Clusters from Classical to Early Modern Literature

Edited by: Colin Burrow, Stephen J. Harrison, Martin McLaughlin and Elisabetta Tarantino

Volume 4 in the series Trends in Classics – Pathways of Reception

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110699593

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This volume shows the pervasiveness over a millennium and a half of the little-studied phenomenon of multi-tier intertextuality, whether as ‘linear’ window reference – where author C simultaneously imitates or alludes to a text by author A and its imitation by author B – or as multi-directional imitative clusters.

It begins with essays on classical literature from Homer to the high Roman empire, where the feature first becomes prominent; then comes late antiquity, a lively area of research at present; and, after a series of essays on European neo-Latin literature from Petrarch to 1600, another area where developments are moving rapidly, the volume concludes with early modern vernacular literatures (Italian, French, Portuguese and English). Most papers concern verse, but prose is not ignored. The introduction to the volume discusses the relevant methodological issues. An Afterword outlines the critical history of ‘window reference’ and includes a short essay by Professor Richard Thomas, of Harvard University, who coined the term in the 1980s.

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Colin Burrow, Stephen Harrison, and Martin McLaughlin, University of Oxford, UK; Elisabetta Tarantino, independent scholar.

Frontmatter Accessible Download PDF	I
Contents Accessible Download PDF	V
Acknowledgements Accessible Download PDF	VII
List of Figures Accessible Download PDF	IX
List of Tables Accessible Download PDF	XI
Bibliographical Note Accessible Download PDF	XIII
Introduction: Seeing Through Texts Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	1
Serial Similes in the Battle-Narrative of Virgil’s Aeneid Stephen Harrison Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	27
The Constant Helmsman: Acoetes, Palinurus, and the Homeric Hymn to Dionysus Sergios Paschalis Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	39
Fisher of Men: A New Reading of Ausonius’ Catalogue of Fish Jesús Hernández Lobato Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	53
The Works of the Sea: Mapping the Itineraries of Imitation in Late Antique Epic Ioannis Doukas Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	77
Transgressing Pastoral: Mediated Responses to Aeneid 6 in Calpurnius, Nemesianus, and the Carmina Einsiedlensia Martin Stöckinger Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	95
Window Reference in Latin Bucolic: The Case of Martius Valerius Justin Stover Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	121
The Chain of Imitations in Petrarch’s Africa Michael Paschalis Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	139
Multiple Allusivity in Girolamo Vida’s De Arte Poetica Philip Hardie Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	153
Virgo laetissima: The Art of Allusion in Sannazaro’s De partu Virginis Sheldon Brammall Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	173
Windows on the World: The Literary Revolutions of Adam King’s Genethliacon Iesu Christi David McOmish Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	189
Imitation and Allusion in Machiavelli’s Istorie fiorentine: Between Contemporary Sources and Classical Models Marta Celati Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	205
‘Un traict à la comparaison de ces couples’: Seneca’s Poets and Epicurean Senecanisms in Montaigne’s Essais Luke O’Sullivan Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	223
Reading through the Sound of Trumpets: Camões’s Political Opinions and the Pattern of Allusion in Os Lusíadas João R. Figueiredo Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	243
Allusion and Horror: The Afterlives of Polydorus William T. Rossiter Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	257
‘An huge great stone’: Two Types of Allusion in The Faerie Queene Emily Mayne Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	277
What’s in a Blush? Constellating Aeneid 12.64–9 and Amores 2.5.33–40 in Spenser’s Legend of Chastity Lindsay Ann Reid Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	287
Editors’ Afterword on Window Reference Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	303
Window on the Eighties Richard F. Thomas Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	307
Works Cited Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	311
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	341
Name Index Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	345

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars and students of classics, medieval, neo-Latin and early modern vernacular literature, and of comparative literature.
Pages
- Front matter: 13
- Main content: 358
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 1
- Coloured Illustrations: 2
- Tables: 5
Keywords: Multi-tier allusion; window reference; imitative series and clusters; literary imitation

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Published: September 7, 2020
ISBN: 9783110699593

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Published: September 7, 2020
ISBN: 9783110699500