Latin literature

IF 0.1 4区历史学 0 CLASSICS

GREECE & ROME Pub Date : 2023-09-12 DOI:10.1017/s0017383523000104

Anke Walter

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Abstract

Let me start with a fascinating volume that Paolo Felice Sacchi and Marco Formisano have edited on Epitomic Writing in Late Antiquity and Beyond , the first volume in the new series sera tela , devoted to ‘Studies in Late Antique Literature and its Reception’, edited by Marco Formisano. This inaugural volume gets the new series off to a very good start. Sacchi and Formisano offer a new approach to epitomic writing, seen as a typical product of late antique literary culture. The aim of the volume is to focus not so much on what is lost and cut out in the process of condensation, but on the value of the epitomic as a hermeneutic category as well as on its aesthetic value, both textual and visual. The individual contributions follow this editorial lead admirably closely, examining the interplay of repetition, fragmentation, dismemberment and re-composition, cutting and re-uniting, and defamiliarization, and showing how epitomic writing can be playful and entertaining, how it can represent a sophisticated act of interpretation, and serve as a ‘tool for investigating the very borders and paradoxes of language’ (12), even for conveying a spiritual experience.

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让我从保罗·菲利斯·萨基和马尔科·福米萨诺编辑的关于晚期古代及以后的缩影写作的引人入胜的一卷开始，这是新系列sera tela的第一卷，致力于“晚期古代文学及其接受研究”，由马尔科·福米萨诺编辑。这首卷为新系列开了个好头。萨基和福米萨诺提供了一种新的方法来研究缩影写作，它被视为古代文学文化晚期的典型产物。这本书的目的不是集中在浓缩过程中丢失和减少的东西，而是集中在作为解释学范畴的缩影的价值，以及它的文本和视觉美学价值。个人的贡献与这篇社论密切相关，研究了重复、碎片化、肢解和重组、切割和重新统一以及陌生化的相互作用，并展示了缩影写作是如何有趣和娱乐的，它是如何代表一种复杂的解释行为的，并作为“研究语言的边界和悖论的工具”(12)，甚至是传达一种精神体验。

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