Roman Paratext - Frame, Texts, Readers

The first synoptic study of the interplay of frame, texts and readers in classical studies.

List of contents

Introduction: approaches to Roman paratextuality Laura Jansen; 1. Crossing the threshold: Genette, Catullus, and the psychodynamics of paratextuality Duncan F. Kennedy; 2. Starting with the index in Pliny Roy Gibson; 3. The topography of the law book: common structure and modes of reading Matthijs Wibier; 4. Cicero's capita Shane Butler; 5. Tarda solacia: liminal temporalities of Statius' prose prefaces Grant Parker; 6. Inter-titles as deliberate misinformation in Ammianus Marcellinus Roger Rees; 7. Paratextual perspectives upon the SC de Pisone Patre Alison Cooley; 8. Paratext and intertext in the Propertian poetry book Donncha O'Rourke; 9. Pictorial paratexts: floating figures in Roman wall painting Hérica Valladares; 10. The paratext of Amores 1: gaming the system Ellen Oliensis; 11. 'Sealing' the book: the sphragis as paratext Irene Peirano; 12. Paraintertextuality: Spenser's classical paratexts in The Shepheardes Calender Bruce Gibson; 13. Modern covers and paratextual strategy in Ovidian elegy Laura Jansen.

About the author

Laura Jansen is Lecturer in Latin Language and Literature at the University of Bristol. Her work addresses the topic of liminality in various forms, especially those relating to issues of authoriality, editoriality and reception. On this theme, she has published articles on Ovidian paratextuality and its exegesis, and is currently completing a book on the question of the authorial frame in Latin literature.

Summary

This volume explores the role paratexts (e.g. indices, prefaces, inter-titles, end-statements) play in our reading and interpretation of Roman literary, visual and epigraphic texts. It proposes a new direction in the criticism of Roman textual structure, as well as a new understanding of its ancient and modern forms of reception.

Product details

• Authors: Laura Jansen, Laura (University of Bristol) Jansen
• Assisted by: Laura Jansen (Editor), Jansen Laura (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.03.2017
• EAN: 9781107607286
• ISBN: 978-1-107-60728-6
• No. of pages: 334
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; European History, Latin, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient & Classical, Ancient World, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient Rome, Literature: history & criticism, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory