The Space That Remains : : Reading Latin Poetry in Late Antiquity / / Aaron Pelttari.

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• VerfasserIn: Pelttari, Aaron,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Cornell Studies in Classical Philology ; 64
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (210 p.) :; 1 figure

In The Space That Remains, Aaron Pelttari offers the first systematic study of the major fourth-century poets since Michael Robert's foundational The Jeweled Style. It is the first book to give equal attention to both Christian and Pagan poetry and the first to take seriously the issue of readership.As Pelttari shows, the period marked a turn towards forms of writing that privilege the reader's active involvement in shaping the meaning of the text. In the poetry of Ausonius, Claudian, and Prudentius we can see the increasing importance of distinctions between old and new, ancient and modern, forgotten and remembered. The strange traditionalism and verbalism of the day often concealed a desire for immediacy and presence. We can see these changes most clearly in the expectations placed upon readers. The space that remains is the space that the reader comes to inhabit, as would increasingly become the case in the literature of the Latin Middle Ages.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Late Antique Poetry and the Figure of the Reader -- 1. Text, Interpretation, and Authority -- 2. Prefaces and the Reader’s Approach to the Text -- 3. Open Texts and Layers of Meaning -- 4. The Presence of the Reader: Allusion in Late Antiquity -- Conclusion -- References -- General Index -- Index of Passages Cited