A Late Antique Poetics?

Helen Kaufmann is an independent scholar, UK. She has published articles on the poetics of late antique poetry as well as a commentary on Dracontius’ Medea (2006). She is particularly interested in the connections between space, place and identity in late Latin poetry. Joshua Hartman is Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics at Bowdoin College, USA. His research focuses on the relationship between literature and memory, especially during late antiquity. He has published articles on Greek and Roman literature, Roman cultural memory and classical reception in Latin America.

List of Figures
List of Contributors
Preface and Acknowledgments
Notes on Texts and Translations
Abbreivations
Introduction
Joshua Hartman (Bowdoin College, USA) and Helen Kaufmann (independent scholar)


Part I: The Formal Features of the Jeweled Style

1. The Decadent Prehistory of the Jeweled Style
Ian Fielding (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA)

2. The Greek Jeweled Style
Fotini Hadjittofi (University of Lisbon, Portugal)

3. Gilding the Lily: The Jeweled Style in Prose Panegyric
Catherine Ware (University College Cork, Ireland)

4. Learning the Jeweled Style
Frances Foster (University of Cambridge, UK)

5. Quantitative Approaches to Late Latin Poetics: Enumeration and Congeries
Joshua Hartman (Bowdoin College, USA) and Jacob Lavernier (independent scholar)

6. The Jeweled Style and Silver Latin Scholarship
Ruth Parkes (University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK)

7. The Jeweled Style in Early Medieval Poetry
Cillian O’Hogan (University of Toronto, Canada)

8. Digression, Variety and Unity in (Late) Latin Poetry
Helen Kaufmann (independent scholar)

Part II: The Jeweled Style and Late Antique Aesthetics

9. Metaphor Squared
Christoph Schubert (University of Erlangen, Germany)

10. An ‘Unjeweled’ Christian style? A Look at Augustine’s Confessions
Jesús Hernández Lobato (University of Salamanca, Spain)

11. The Cento and Scripture: An Early Christian Debate over the Poetics of Exegesis
David Ungvary (Bard College, USA)

12. Jeweled Sea Storm Descriptions in Zeno of Verona (and Juvencus)
Francesco Lubian (University of Padova, Italy)

13. Allusive Clusters and Biblical Configurations in Dracontius, De laudibus dei: A Christian Jeweled Style?
Elena Castelnuovo (independent scholar)

14. Vergil’s Children: Patterns in Christian Centos and Responses to Vergil’s Fourth Eclogue
Scott McGill (Rice University, USA)

15. Architectural Ecphrasis in Venantius Fortunatus: Beyond the Jeweled Style
Carole Newlands (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA)

16. The Jeweled Style in Epigram
Bret Mulligan (Haverford College, USA)

17. The Jeweled Style and Neoplatonism
Andreas Abele (University of Tübingen, Germany)

Epilogue: The Jeweled Style in Context
Michael Roberts (Wesleyan Memorial University, USA)

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