Reading Late Antiquity (eBook)

Cover 1
Titel 4
Imprint 5
Table of Contents 6
Editors’ Introduction???????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 8
I THEORETICAL OUTLOOKS 18
James Uden: Untimely Antiquity: Walter Pater and the "Vigil of Venus" 18
Marco Formisano: Fragments, Allegory, and Anachronicity: Walter Benjamin and Claudian 34
Jesús Hernández Lobato: Late Antique Foundations of Postmodern Theory: A Critical Overview 52
II DECADENCE AND DECLINE 74
Olof Heilo: Decline and Renascence: Re-reading the Late Antiquity of Jacob Burckhardt 74
Scott McGiLL: Reading Against the Grain: Late Latin Literature in Huysmans’ "À rebours" 86
Stefan Rebenich: Late Antiquity, a Gentleman Scholar and the Decline of Cultures: Oswald Spengler and "Der Untergang des Abendlandes" 106
Sigrid Schottenius Cullhed: Rome Post Mortem: The Many Returns of Rutilius Namatianus 122
Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer: Alma Johanna Koenig’s "Der heilige Palast": The Rise and Fall of Theodora in the Belletrist of the "Wiener Moderns" 138
Chiara O. Tommasi: A Byzantine Phaedra between Paganism, Heresy and Magic: The Tragic Fate of Silvana in "La Fiamma" by Ottorino Respighi and Claudio Guastalla (1934) 158
III CONTINUITIES AND TRANSFORMATION 184
Ad Putter: Versifications of the Book of Jonah: Late Antique to Late Medieval 184
David Westberg: Literary "mimesis" and the Late Antique Layer in John Doukas’ (or Phokas’) "Description of Palestine" 206
Helena Bodin: “I Sank through the Centuries”: Late Antiquity Inscribed in Göran Tunström’s Novel "The Thief" 226
Catherine Conybeare: "Mundus totus exsilium est": On Being out of Place 244
Notes on Contributors???????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 258
Index???????????????????????? 262
Backcover 269