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A Late Antique Poetics?: The Jeweled Style Revisited

A Late Antique Poetics?: The Jeweled Style Revisited

Hardcover

Series: Sera Tela: Studies in Late Antique Literature and Its Reception

Art HistoryLiterary CriticismAncient History General

ISBN10: 1350346403
ISBN13: 9781350346406
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Jul 13 2023
Pages: 328
Weight: 1.41
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

The poetry of the late Roman world has a fascinating history. Sometimes an object of derision, sometimes an object of admiration, it has found numerous detractors and defenders among classicists and Latin literary critics. This volume explores the scholarly approaches to late Latin poetry that have developed over the last 40 years, and it seeks especially to develop, complement and challenge the seminal concept of the 'Jeweled Style' proposed by Michael Roberts in 1989. While Roberts's monograph has long been a vade mecum within the world of late antique literary studies, a critical reassessment of its validity as a concept is overdue.

This volume invites established and emerging scholars from different research traditions to return to the influential conclusions put forward by Roberts. It asks them to examine the continued relevance of The Jeweled Style and to suggest new ways to engage it. In a joint effort, the nineteen chapters of this volume define and map the jeweled style, extending it to new genres, geographic regions, time periods and methodologies. Each contribution seeks to provide insightful analysis that integrates the last 30 years of scholarship while pursuing ambitious applications of the jeweled style within and beyond the world of late antiquity.

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Ancient History General