Labor Imperfectus: Unfinished, Incomplete, Partial Texts in Classical Antiquity

Unfinishedness and incompleteness are a central feature of ancient Greek and Roman literature that has often been...
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Author: Jacqueline Fabre-Serris
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Language: English
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Labor Imperfectus: Unfinished, Incomplete, Partial Texts in Classical Antiquity by Fabre-Serris, Jacqueline

Labor Imperfectus: Unfinished, Incomplete, Partial Texts in Classical Antiquity

$348.78

Labor Imperfectus: Unfinished, Incomplete, Partial Texts in Classical Antiquity

$348.78
Author: Jacqueline Fabre-Serris
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Unfinishedness and incompleteness are a central feature of ancient Greek and Roman literature that has often been taken for granted but not deeply examined; many texts have been transmitted to us incomplete. How and to what extent has this feature of many texts influenced their aesthetic perception and interpretation, and how does it still influence them today? Also, how do various editorial arrangements of fragmentary texts influence the reconstruction of closure? These important questions offer the opportunity to bring together specialists working on Greek and Roman texts across various genres: epic, tragedy, poetry, mythographic texts, rhetorical texts, philosophical treatises, and the novel. Reading a text by focusing on its current unfinishedness or incompleteness, or the textual signs suggesting an unfinished or incomplete state, the contributors examine the relations between author, reader and text as underscored by the verbal, generic and aesthetic features of each work. This edited volume brings together a broad spectrum of approaches to ancient and modern texts and aims to reach out to a broad scholarly community consisting not only of Classicists but also scholars of other literature and aesthetics.

Author: Jacqueline Fabre-Serris
Publisher: de Gruyter
Published: 11/06/2023
Pages: 443
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.90lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.13d
ISBN: 9783111340791

About the Author

J. Fabre-Serris, Univ. of Lille, France; M. Formisano, Ghent Univ., Belgium; S. Frangoulidis, Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece.


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