TY - BOOK ID - 61523709 TI - Literature squared : self-reflexivity in late antique literature AU - Hernández Lobato, Jesús AU - Prieto Domínguez, Óscar PY - 2020 SN - 9782503586526 250358652X 9782503586533 2503586538 PB - Turnhout Brepols DB - UniCat KW - Literature, Ancient KW - History and criticism KW - E-books UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:61523709 AB - This collection of essays focuses on a crucial aspect of late antique thought and literature that has hitherto largely been neglected: its self-reflexivity, i.e. its unprecedented ability to make language and literature into its main and often its only subject matter. Adopting a variety of perspectives and methodologies, the essays included in this volume approach the notion of self-reflexivity in two main ways. On the one hand (literature as a reflection of literature), it implies a self-conscious reflection of preceding literary models, which are creatively mirrored in new but intrinsically 'derivative' works of art, taking the form of remakes, parodies, homages, commentaries, retellings, centos, paraphrases, allegorizations, and more or less free 're-enactments'. On the other hand (literature as reflection on literature), the term also implies a self-questioning reflection on the literary work and the very concepts of language and literature, thus referring to its own artificiality or contrivance while opening up all sorts of theoretical discussions of the mechanisms, the conventions, and even the relevance of linguistic and literary representation. ER -