The Dynamics of Paratextuality in Late Antique Literature

Christian Guerra is a Research Assistant in Classics at the University of Basel, Switzerland. Markus Kersten is a Research Assistant in Classics at the University of Basel, Switzerland. Ann-Kathrin Stähle is a PhD candidate in Classics at the University of Basel, Switzerland.

List of Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations

A Paratext
Introduction. Stumbling at the Entrance: Late Antique Paratexts between Discursive Enrichment and Interpretive Challenge (Markus Kersten, University of Basel, Switzerland)

The Framework of a Tradition: Paratexts from Ausonius to Sidonius
Chapter 1. Everyone’s a Critic: Ausonius on His Coterie and Its Etiquette (Brian Sowers, Brooklyn College, USA)
Chapter 2. Ausonius' Commentary on His Own Work (Étienne Wolff, Paris Nanterre University, France)
Chapter 3. Legere or tegere? Reflections on a ‘Key Question’ for the Late Antique Author and his Readers (Luciana Furbetta, University of Trieste, Italy)
Chapter 4. Poetics of Conclusion in Sidonius' Letters (Books 7-9, Epist. 9. 12-16) (Annick Stoehr-Monjou, Clermont-Ferrand University, France)


Core Issues: Repetition, Revision and Collection
Chapter 5. Revising Rewriting: Eudocia, the Cento, and Distributed Authorship (Scott McGill, Rice University, USA)
Chapter 6. Quoting Quotations: Multi-layer Intertextuality in Late Antique Poetry (Claudia Schindler, University of Hamburg, Germany)
Chapter 7. The Disparaging Assessments, Topical Modesty, and ‘Awkward’ Intertextuality of the Fables of Avianus (Christopher Poms, Graz University, Austria)
Chapter 8. Claudian’s carmina minora: A Collection of Short Pieces by a Stumbling Poet? (Adrien Bresson, University of Lyon, France)


The Tradition of Framework: Paratexts in Venantius Fortunatus and Beyond
Chapter 9. Venantius Fortunatus’s vecors otium in His Letter to Bishop Syagrius (Enno Friedrich, Graz University, Austria)
Chapter 10. De modicis minimus: Venantius Fortunatus and the Value of His Life of Saint Martin (Elena Castelnuovo, University of Milan, Italy)
Chapter 11. The Politics of Rusticitas in Late Antique Hagiography (Raphael Schwitter, University of Zürich, Switzerland)
Chapter 12. The Legacy of Late Antique Paratexts in Early Modern Literature (Christian Guerra, University of Basel, Switzerland)

Notes
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Index