Generic Interfaces in Latin Literature: Encounters, Interactions and Transformations (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes)

Neither older empiricist positions that genre is an abstract concept, useless for the study of individual works of literature, nor the recent (post) modern reluctance to subject literary production to any kind of classification seem to have stilled the discussion on the various aspects of genre in classical literature. Having moved from more or less essentialist and/or prescriptive positions towards a more dynamic conception of the generic model, research on genre is currently considering "pushing beyond the boundaries", "impurity", "instability", "enrichment" and "genre-bending". The aim of this volume is to raise questions of such generic mobility in Latin literature. The papers explore ways in which works assigned to a particular generic area play host to formal and substantive elements associated with different or even opposing genres; assess literary works which seem to challenge perceived generic norms; highlight, along the literary-historical, the ideological and political backgrounds to "dislocations" of the generic map. Introduction 11 General 27 Genre and Super-Genre 29 The (Dis)continuity of Genre: A Comment on the Romans and the Greeks 45 Architectural Ecphrasis in Roman Poetry 65 Hypertexts and Auxiliary Texts: New Genres in Late Antiquity? 89 Epic and Didactic 101 The Genre of Cicero’s De consulatu suo 103 Fear and Loathing in Lucretius: Latent Tragedy and Anti-Allusion in DRN 3 123 Lucan and Caesar: Epic and Commentarius 145 Achilles and the improba virgo. Ovid, Ars am. 1.681 -704 and Statius, Ach. 1.514- 35 on Achilles at Scyros 161 Claudianism in the De Raptu Proserpinae 179 Shepherds’ Songs: Generic Variation in Renaissance Latin Epic 203 Pastoral 213 Too Much Semiotics will Spoil the Genre. The Pastoral Unscription in Virgil, Ecl. 10.53 - 4 215 Virgil’s Eclogue 4.60 -3: A Space of Generic Enrichment 227 Comedy and Elegy in Calpurnian Pastoral: ‘Generic Interplays’ in Calp. 3 241 Other Poetic Genres 275 Transformations of Paraclausithyron in Plautus’ Curculio 277 The Invention of Satire: A Paradigmatic Case? 293 The Afterlife of Varro in Horace’s Sermones. Generic Issues in Roman Satire 307 One Verse of Mimnermus? Latin Elegy and Archaic Greek Elegy 347 The Poet’s Afterlife: Ovid between Epic and Elegy 361 Didactic and Lyric in Horace Odes 2: Lucretius and Vergil 377 Prose 395 Letters into Autobiography: The Generic Mobility of the Ancient Lett Collection 397 Is historia a Genre? (With Notes on Caesar’s First Landing in Britain, BG 4.24-5) 427 Tacitean Fusion: Tiberius the Satirist? 443 Apollonius King of Tyre: Between Novel and New Comedy 459 Notes on Contributors 465 Index Locorum 471 General Index 481 "This volume pursues a key topic in the current study of Latin literature - the way in which literary texts of all periods in Latin, while usually written in an identifiable genre, characteristically allude to and interact with other genres. It pushes research forward by providing a broad range of studies concentrating on the polyphonic nature of Latin literary texts, both exemplifying recent theoretical advances and suggesting further lines of argument. It will appeal to classical scholars, students of classical literature and literary scholars in general"--Provided by publisher