TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - Epitomic writing in late antiquity and beyond : forms of unabridged writing
T2  - Sera tela: studies in late antique literature and its reception
A2  - Sacchi, Paolo Felice, toimittaja
A2  - Formisano, Marco, toimittaja
LA  - eng
PP  - London ; New York
PB  - Bloomsbury Academic
YR  - 2023
UL  - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.5634003
AB  - "This volume makes a powerful argument for epitome (combining textual dismemberment and re-composition) as a broad hermeneutic field encompassing multifarious historical, conceptual and aesthetical concerns. The contributors gather from across the globe to present case studies of the 'summing up' of cultural artefacts, literary and artistic, in epitomic writing, and as a collective they demonstrate the importance of this genre that has been largely overlooked by scholars. The volume is divided into five sections: the first showcases the broad range of fields from which epitomic analysis can be made, from classics to postmodernism to cultural memory studies; the second focuses in on epitome as dismemberment in writing from late antiquity to the modern day; the third considers a 'productive negativity' of epitomic writings and how they are useful tools for investigating the very borders and paradoxes of language; the fourth brings this to bear on materiality; the fifth considers re-composition as a counterpart to dismemberment and problematises it. Across the volume, examples are taken from important late antique writers such as Ausonius, Clement of Alexandria, Macrobius, Nepos, Nonius Marcellus and Symphosius, and from modern authors such as Antonin Artaud, Barthes, Nabokov and Pascal Quignard. Epitomic writings about art from decorated tabulae to sarcophagi are also included, as are epitomic images themselves in the form of manuscript illustrations that sum up their text"--
NO  - Selection of papers from a conference entitled "Unabridged. Epitome from fragmentation to recomposition (and back again)", held 5-6 June 2018 at the Academia Belgica in Rome.
SN  - 978-1-3502-8193-6 kovakantinen
SN  - 135028193X kovakantinen
SN  - 978-1-3502-8197-4 pehmeäkantinen
SN  - 1350281972 pehmeäkantinen
KW  - 1900-1999
KW  - Classical literature : History and criticism : Congresses.
KW  - Christian literature, Early : History and criticism : Congresses.
KW  - French literature : 20th century : Congresses.
KW  - Comparative literature : Congresses.
KW  - Condensed books : History and criticism : Congresses.
KW  - Christian literature, Early.
KW  - Classical literature.
KW  - Comparative literature.
KW  - Condensed books.
KW  - French literature.
ER  -