The library of the Other Antiquity
Reading Late Antiquity
Mats Malm and Sigrid Schottenius Cullhed (ed.), Heidelberg: Winter Verlag, 2018
Description
The field of Late Antique studies has involved self-reflexion and criticism since its emergence in the late nineteenth century, but in recent years there has been a widespread desire to retrace our steps more systematically and to inquire into the millennial history of previous interpretations, historicization and uses of the end of the Greco-Roman world. This volume contributes to that enterprise. It emphasizes an aspect of Late Antiquity reception that ensues from its subordination to the Classical tradition, namely its tendency to slip in and out of western consciousness. Narratives and artifacts associated with this period have gained attention, often in times of crisis and change, and exercised influence only to disappear again. When later readers have turned to the same period and identified with what they perceive, they have tended to ascribe the feeling of relatedness to similar values and circumstances rather than to the formation of an unbroken tradition of appropriation.
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Table of contents
Editors’ Introduction 7
I THEORETICAL OUTLOOKS
James Uden Untimely Antiquity: Walter Pater and the Vigil of Venus 17
Marco Formisano Fragments, Allegory, and Anachronicity: Walter Benjamin and Claudian 33
Jesús Hernández Lobato Late Antique Foundations of Postmodern Theory: A Critical Overview 51
II DECADENCE AND DECLINE
Olof Heilo Decline and Renascence: Re-reading the Late Antiquity of Jacob Burckhardt 73
Scott McGill Reading Against the Grain: Late Latin Literature in Huysmans’ À rebours . 85
Stefan Rebenich Late Antiquity, a Gentleman Scholar and the Decline of Cultures: Oswald Spengler and Der Untergang des Abendlandes 105
Sigrid Schottenius Cullhed Rome Post Mortem: The Many Returns of Rutilius Namatianus 121
Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer Alma Johanna Koenig’s Der heilige Palast: The Rise and Fall of Theodora in the Belletrist of the Wiener Moderns 137
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) 157
III CONTINUITIES AND TRANSFORMATION
Ad Putter Versifications of the Book of Jonah: Late Antique to Late Medieval 183
David Westberg Literary mimesis and the Late Antique Layer in John Doukas’ (or Phokas’) Description of Palestine 205
Helena Bodin “I Sank through the Centuries”: Late Antiquity Inscribed in Göran Tunström’s Novel The Thief 225
Catherine Conybeare Mundus totus exsilium est: On Being Out of Place 243
Notes on Contributors 257
Index 261
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