Reading late antiquity
By: Sigrid Schottenius Cullhed, Mats Malm (eds.).
Contributors: Cullhed, Sigrid Schottenius, editor; Malm, Mats, editor
Series: Bibliothek der klassischen Altertumswissenschaften -- Neue Folge, 2. Reihe, Band 156; The library of the other antiquity; Bibliothek der klassischen Altertumswissenschaften -- n.F., 2. Reihe, Bd. 156.; Library of the other antiquity
Publisher: Universitätsverlag Winter
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Heidelberg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9783825367879
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Modern Literature; Congresses; Classical influences; Classical literature; Influence; History and criticism; Theory
Description: "The field of Late Antique studies has involved self-reflexion and criticism since its emergence in the late nineteenth century, but in recent years there has been a widespread desire to retrace our steps more systematically and to inquire into the millennial history of previous interpretations, historicization and uses of the end of the Greco-Roman world. This volume contributes to that enterprise. It emphasizes an aspect of Late Antiquity reception that ensues from its subordination to the Classical tradition, namely its tendency to slip in and out of western consciousness. Narratives and artifacts associated with this period have gained attention, often in times of crisis and change, and exercised influence only to disappear again. When later readers have turned to the same period and identified with what they perceive, they have tended to ascribe the feeling of relatedness to similar values and circumstances rather than to the formation of an unbroken tradition of appropriation."
Notes: International conference proceedings.

Selection of papers presented at conference held at the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities in Stockholm, May 8-9, 2015.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: I. Theoretical outlooks.; title: Untimely antiquity : Walter Pater and the Vigil of Venus / James Uden; title: Fragments, allegory, and anachronicity : Walter Benjamin and Claudian / Marco Formisano; title: Late Antique foundations of postmodern theory : a critical overview / Jesús Hernández Lobato; title: II Decadence and decline.; title: Decline and renascence : re-reading the Late Antiquity of Jacob Burckhardt / Olof Heilo; title: Reading against the grain : late Latin literature in Huysmans' À rebours / Scott McGill; title: Late Antiquity, a gentleman scholar and the decline of cultures : Oswald Spengler and Der Untergang des Abendlandes / Stefan Rebenich; title: Rome post mortem : the many returns of Rutilius Namatianus / Sigrid Schottenius; title: Alma Johanna Koenigs Der heilige Palast : the rise and fall of Theodora in the Belletrist of the Wiener moderns / Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer; title: A Byzantine Phaedra between paganism, heresy and magic : the tragic fate of Silvana in La fiamma by Ottorino Respighi and Claudio Guastalla (1934) / Chiara O. Tommasi; title: III. Continuities and transformation.; title: Versifications of the Book of Jonah : late antique to late medieval / Ad Putter; title: Literary mimesis and the late antique layer in John Doukas' (or Phokas') Description of Palestine / David Westberg; title: "I sank through the centuries" : Late Antiquity inscribed in Göran Tunström's novel The thief / Helena Bodin; title: Mundus totus exsilium est : on being out of place / Catherine Conybeare.