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Wissenschaftlich verlässlich und übersichtlich erschlossen. In rund 90 nach Autoren geordneten Lexikoneinträgen beleuchtet der PAULY-Supplementband die Wirkungsgeschichte der wichtigsten griechischen und römischen Texte in Literatur, Kunst und Musik von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Jeder Artikel vermittelt einen fundierten Überblick über die Rezeption eines Werkes in der Antike, seine nachantike Wirkungsgeschichte und Interpretation jeweils mit einer umfangreichen Bibliografie. Ein Gewinn nicht nur für die antike und moderne Literaturwissenschaft, sondern auch für viele andere Disziplinen.
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Das Erzählen in frühen Hochkulturen widmet sich in seinem ersten Band „Der Fall Ägypten“ der Vielfalt erzählerischer Funktionen und Kontexte in der altägyptischen Kultur. Das Erzählen spielte in frühen Hochkulturen wie dem Alten Ägypten eine wesentlich größere Rolle als in unseren modernen Kulturen. Neben dem alltäglichen Erzählen erfuhr das außeralltägliche, besonders geformte Erzählen eine hervorgehobene Bedeutung – beispielsweise im Kontext von Ritualen oder bei der Fundierung religiöser und moralischer Vorstellungen. Überliefert sind uns aus Ägypten nahezu ausschließlich solche außeralltäglichen Erzählungen in Schriftform. Sie sind ein wichtiger Informant für die religiöse, politische und soziale Ideenwelt dieser Kultur und für den Stellenwert des Erzählens in ihr. Das fordert zu einer intensiven Beschäftigung mit den Erzählungen heraus, die sich in der Ägyptologie in den letzten zwei Jahrzehnten in einer verstärkten literaturwissenschaftlichen Herangehensweise niedergeschlagen hat.
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Giuseppe Francesco Meyranesio (1729-1793) is well known for the ancient and medieval texts he produced and disseminated, the falsity of which has been widely proved. This essay aims to reread his story from another point of view, namely the network of relationships and correspondents set up by Meyranesio, a network that allows us to understand the reasons for his forgeries, which were an attempt - substantially successful - to build a good reputation in front of the main subalpine scholars, but also - and here Meyranesio failed - to obtain a benefit that freed him from pastoral tasks and allowed him to devote himself full time to study.
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Giuseppe Francesco Meyranesio (1729-1793) is well known for the ancient and medieval texts he produced and disseminated, the falsity of which has been widely proved. This essay aims to reread his story from another point of view, namely the network of relationships and correspondents set up by Meyranesio, a network that allows us to understand the reasons for his forgeries, which were an attempt - substantially successful - to build a good reputation in front of the main subalpine scholars, but also - and here Meyranesio failed - to obtain a benefit that freed him from pastoral tasks and allowed him to devote himself full time to study.
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Books --- Literature, Ancient --- Literature, Ancient --- Literature, Ancient --- Authors and readers --- Authorship --- History --- Criticism, Textual. --- Appreciation. --- Manuscripts. --- History. --- History.
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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.
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Ambiguity in the sense of two or more possible meanings is considered to be a distinctive feature of modern art and literature. It characterizes the "open artwork" (Eco) and is generated by "disruptive tactics" (Wellershoff) and strategies to engender uncertainty. While ambiguity is seen as a "paradigm of modernity" (Bode), there is skepticism regarding its use in the pre-modern era. Older studies were dominated by the conviction that there was a lack of ambiguity in pre-modernity because, according to the rules of the "old rhetoric", ambiguity was seen as an avoidable error (vitium) and a violation of the dictate of clarity (perspicuitas). The aim of the volume is to re-examine the putative "absence of ambiguity" in the pre-modern era. Is it not possible to find clear examples of deliberately employed (intended) ambiguity in antiquity? Are the oracles and riddles, the Palinode of Stesichoros and Socrates (Phaedrus), the dissoi logoi of rhetoric, the ambiguities of the tragedies all exceptions or do they not indicate a distinct interest in the artistic use of ambiguity? The presentations of the conference, which will include scholars from various philologies, will combine a recourse to theoretical concepts of intended ambiguity with exemplary analyses from the field of pre-modern art and literature.
Letteratura greca. --- Literature, Ancient --- History and criticism