Title: Genres rediscovered : studies in Latin miniature epic, love elegy, and epigram of the romano-barbaric age /
Authors: Wasyl, Anna Maria.
Publisher: Jagiellonian University Press,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Dracontius, Blossius Aemilius, Criticism and interpretation.; Maximianus, Criticism and interpretation.; Luxorius, Criticism and interpretation.; Epic poetry, Latin Africa, North History and criticism.; Christian poetry, Latin History and criticism.; Africa, North Intellectual life.
Contents: The miniature epic in Vandal Africa and the heritage of a 'non-genre'. Defining the (Latin) epyllion : some recapitulations -- La narrazione commentata : the narrator's presence in Dracontius's epyllia -- Dracontius and the poetics of 'non-Homeric' epic -- 'Mixing of genres' in Dracontius's epyllia -- Dracontius's epyllia : final remarks -- The Aegritudo Perdicae and the epyllion tradition --The elegy without love: Maximianus and his Opus. The supposed liber elegiarum or how to make Maximianus readable as an elegiac poet? -- The polyphony of lament : themes and forms in 'Elegy' 1 -- Love memories in episodes: 'Elegies' 2-5 -- Maximianus's elegy : final remarks -- The Roman epigram in the romano-barbaric world. Martial and the definition of the Roman epigram -- "The Martial of the Vandals" : Luxorius, the follower and the innovator -- Luxorius and his contemporary epigrammatic writing.