Research Catalog

Title

Unspoken Rome : absence in Latin literature and its reception / edited by Tom Geue, Elena Giusti.

Publication

• Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
• ©2021

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Details

Additional Authors

• Geue, Tom
• Giusti, Elena

Description

x, 379 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"Latin literature is a hotbed of holes and erasures. Its sensitivity to politics leaves it ripe for repression of all sorts of names, places and historical events, while its dense allusivity appears to hide interpretative clues in a network of texts that only the reader's consciousness can make present. The showcases innovative approaches to the field of Latin literature, all of which are refracted through this prism of absence, which functions as a fundamental generative force both for the hermeneutics and the ongoing literary aftermath of these texts. Reviewing and working with various influential approaches to textual absence, the contributors to Unspoken Rome treat these texts as silent types, listening out for what they do not say, and how they do not speak, whilst also tracing the ill-defined borders within which scholars and modern authors are legitimized to fill in the silences around which they are built."--

Subject

• Latin literature > History and criticism > Congresses
• Absence in literature > Congresses
• HISTORY / Ancient / General
• Absence in literature
• Latin literature

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• Papers from a conference, entitled Unspeaking volumes: absence in Latin texts, held at the University of St. Andrews in June 2017.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Tom Geue and Elena Giusti -- Absence in text. Catullus' Sapphic lacuna : a palimsest of absences and presences / Ábel Tamás -- Speaking aposiopeseis : the (generic) sound of silence in Statius' Thebaid / Stefano Briguglio -- Allegorical absences : Virgin, Ovid, Prudentius and Claudian / Philip Hardie -- Tamen apsentes prosunt pro praesentibus : proxied absences and Roman comedy / Giuseppe Pezzini -- Absence left wanting : the groove in Ovid's Remedia / Victoria Rimell -- The gaze on the void : hermeneutic responses to Dido's first appearance / Viola Starnone -- Absence in Context. Speaking silence in Cicero's Brutus and Tacitus' Dialogus de Oratoribus / Kathrin Winter -- Et sine auctore notissimi versus : unauthored poetry and Rome's authoritative turn / Barbara del Giovane -- Looking for the emperor in Seneca's letters / Catharine Edwards -- Marcus Aurelius : Medi()ations, not medi(c)ations / John Henderson -- Lost in Germania : the absence of history in Tacitus' ethnography / James McNamara -- Conspicuous absence : Tacitus' de Re Publica / Ellen O'Gorman -- Going Beyond. The slave, between absence and presence / William Fitzgerald -- In search of the lost city : the enduring absence of Pompeii / Joanna Paul -- Omnibus umbra locis adero : Elena Ferrante and the poetics of absence / Francesca Bellei -- The philology of grief : Catallus 101 and Anne Carson's Nox / Erik Fredericksen -- Absence, metaphysically speaking : from reception to instauration? / Duncan Kennedy -- Afterword : lights out / Emily Gowers.

Call Number

JFE 21-8840

ISBN

• 9781108843041
• 1108843042
• 9781108823319
• 1108823319

LCCN

2021017704

OCLC

1243966405

Title

Unspoken Rome : absence in Latin literature and its reception / edited by Tom Geue, Elena Giusti.

Publisher

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Geue, Tom, editor.

Giusti, Elena, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Unspoken Rome Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2021 9781108913843 (DLC) 2021017705

Research Call Number

JFE 21-8840