Labor Imperfectus : : Unfinished, Incomplete, Partial Texts in Classical Antiquity /

Labor Imperfectus : : Unfinished, Incomplete, Partial Texts in Classical Antiquity / / ed. by Jacqueline Fabre-Serris, Marco Formisano, Stavros Frangoulidis.

Unfinishedness and incompleteness are a central feature of ancient Greek and Roman literature that has often been taken for granted but not deeply examined; many texts have been transmitted to us incomplete. How and to what extent has this feature of many texts influenced their aesthetic perception...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2024 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Cadel, Francesca,
Dord-Crouslé, Stéphanie,
Fabre-Serris, Jacqueline,
Formisano, Marco,
Frangoulidis, Stavros,
Garani, Myrto,
Hardie, Philip,
Hunter, Richard,
Jansen, Laura,
Konstan, David,
Marchese, Rosa Rita,
Miller, John F.,
Reitz-Joosse, Bettina,
Sacchi, Paolo Felice,
Sissa, Giulia,
Sistakou, Evina,
Thorel, Sylvie,
Tutrone, Fabio,
Williams, Craig,
Zissos, Andrew,
HerausgeberIn:
Fabre-Serris, Jacqueline,
Formisano, Marco,
Frangoulidis, Stavros,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2023]
©2024
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes , 157
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XI, 432 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Facing Unfinishedness
  • From the Authorial to the Editorial tour de force: How to Read Callimachus’ Aetia and Hecale
  • How to Walk Along a Pioneer’s Fragmentary Track: Theophrastus’ Meteorological Studies
  • Fragments of Roman Sexuality in Petronius’ Satyricon
  • Part II: Questioning (In)Completeness
  • The “Alexandrian End” of the Odyssey
  • Reconsidering Closure in Ovid’s Fasti
  • Statius’ Achilleid: How to Break off a carmen perpetuum
  • Literatura Incompleta: Borges’ Antiquity between World and Universe
  • Part III: Constitutive Unfinishedness
  • Sed redeo ad formulam (Off. 3.20): Completeness and Imperfection in Cicero’s De officiis
  • Relativizing Unfinishedness: Lucretian Textuality and Epicurean Therapy
  • The Fragment as a Form: A Reading of Fragments d’un discours amoureux by Barthes
  • Arrhythmic Historiography, Lost Letters and Broken Meanings: Fulgentius’s De aetatibus mundi et hominis
  • “This City Will Always Pursue You”: The Impossible End of Rutilius Namatianus’ Return
  • Part IV: Reading Unfinishedness
  • Finishing Iphigenia in Aulis
  • Seneca’s Phoenissae: In Search of an Ending
  • How to Read Hyginus’ Fabulae? Theories and Practices
  • The Rest was not Perfected: Platonic Endings and their Modern Echoes
  • War as a Permanent Civil War: The “Unfinished” History in Pasolini’s Petrolio
  • Part V: Searching for Completion
  • The Missing Conclusion to Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica
  • Speaking Silences: The Incompleteness of Tacitus’ Annals and Gustav Freytag’s Die verlorene Handschrift
  • Putting an Unfinished Novel Back into Motion: A Digital Tool to Create Possible “Second Volumes” of Bouvard et Pécuchet
  • List of Contributors
  • General Index
  • Index of Passages

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