TY - BOOK ID - 68901522 TI - The Genres of Late Antique Christian Poetry AU - Accorinti, Domenico AU - Agosti, Gianfranco AU - Falcone, Maria Jennifer AU - Faulkner, Andrew AU - Fischer, Susanna AU - Gullo, Arianna AU - Hadjittofi, Fotini AU - Kuhn-Treichel, Thomas AU - Lefteratou, Anna AU - McDonald, James AU - Onorato, Marco AU - Paschalis, Michael AU - Rigo, Maria Sole AU - Wasyl, Anna Maria AU - Wolff, Etienne AU - Leppin, Hartmut PY - 2020 SN - 9783110689976 9783110696219 3110696215 3110689979 PB - Berlin Boston DB - UniCat KW - Christian poetry, Early KW - Christian poetry, Greek KW - Christian poetry, Latin KW - Christian poetry. KW - Christianity in literature. KW - Christliche Literatur. KW - Classical poetry KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical. KW - Late Antiquity. KW - Literary genres. KW - Reception. KW - Rezeption klassischer Literatur. KW - Spätantike. KW - History and criticism. KW - E-books UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:68901522 AB - Classicizing Christian poetry has largely been neglected by literary scholars, but has recently been receiving growing attention, especially the poetry written in Latin. One of the objectives of this volume is to redress the balance by allowing more space to discussions of Greek Christian poetry.The contributions collected here ask how Christian poets engage with (and are conscious of) the double reliance of their poetry on two separate systems: on the one hand, the classical poetic models and, on the other, the various genres and sub-genres of Christian prose. Keeping in mind the different settings of the Greek-speaking East and the Latin-speaking West, the contributions seek to understand the impact of historical setting on genre, the influence of the paideia shared by authors and audiences, and the continued relevance of traditional categories of literary genre. While our immediate focus is genre, most of the contributions also engage with the ideological ramifications of the transposition of Christian themes into classicizing literature.This volume offers important and original case studies on the reception and appropriation of the classical past and its literary forms by Christian poetry. ER -