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From the book Labor Imperfectus

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111340944-toc
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Labor Imperfectus
Labor Imperfectus

Chapters in this book (28)

Frontmatter
Preface
Contents
List of Figures
Introduction
Part I: Facing Unfinishedness
From the Authorial to the Editorial tour de force: How to Read Callimachus’ Aetia and Hecale
How to Walk Along a Pioneer’s Fragmentary Track: Theophrastus’ Meteorological Studies
Fragments of Roman Sexuality in Petronius’ Satyricon
Part II: Questioning (In)Completeness
The “Alexandrian End” of the Odyssey
Reconsidering Closure in Ovid’s Fasti
Statius’ Achilleid: How to Break off a carmen perpetuum
Literatura Incompleta: Borges’ Antiquity between World and Universe
Part III: Constitutive Unfinishedness
Sed redeo ad formulam (Off. 3.20): Completeness and Imperfection in Cicero’s De officiis
Relativizing Unfinishedness: Lucretian Textuality and Epicurean Therapy
The Fragment as a Form: A Reading of Fragments d’un discours amoureux by Barthes
Arrhythmic Historiography, Lost Letters and Broken Meanings: Fulgentius’s De aetatibus mundi et hominis
“This City Will Always Pursue You”: The Impossible End of Rutilius Namatianus’ Return
Part IV: Reading Unfinishedness
Finishing Iphigenia in Aulis
Seneca’s Phoenissae: In Search of an Ending
How to Read Hyginus’ Fabulae? Theories and Practices
The Rest was not Perfected: Platonic Endings and their Modern Echoes
War as a Permanent Civil War: The “Unfinished” History in Pasolini’s Petrolio
Part V: Searching for Completion
The Missing Conclusion to Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica
Speaking Silences: The Incompleteness of Tacitus’ Annals and Gustav Freytag’s Die verlorene Handschrift
Putting an Unfinished Novel Back into Motion: A Digital Tool to Create Possible “Second Volumes” of Bouvard et Pécuchet
List of Contributors
General Index
Index of Passages
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