Read more
Examining phenomena from Greek and Latin literature through the lens of metalepsis, this volume sheds new light on central features and important dynamics in ancient texts, and advances literary theory by probing how explorations of ancient metalepsis might change, refine, or extend our understanding of the concept itself.
List of contents
- 1: Sebastian Matzner: By Way of Introduction: Back to the Future? Problems and Potential of Metalepsis avant Genette
- 2: Jonas Grethlein: Representation Delimited and Historicized: Metalepsis in Ancient Literature and Vase-Painting
- 3: Felix Budelmann: Metalepsis and Readerly Investment in Fictional Characters: Reflections on Apostrophic Reading
- 4: Irene J. F. de Jong: Metalepsis and the Apostrophe of Heroes in Pindar
- 5: Peter Bing: Anachronism as a Form of Metalepsis in Ancient Greek Literature
- 6: Gail Trimble: Narrative and Lyric Levels in Catullus
- 7: Laurel Fulkerson: Close Encounters: Divine Epiphanies on the Fringes of Latin Love Elegy
- 8: Helen Lovatt: Metalepsis, Grief, and Narrative in Aeneid 2
- 9: Talitha Kearey: Secondary Metalepsis? Talking to Virgil in Fulgentius' Expositio Virgilianae Continentiae
- 10: Duncan Kennedy: Metalepsis and Metaphysics
- 11: Sebastian Matzner and Gail Trimble: Epilogue: Metaleptically Ever After
About the author
Sebastian Matzner is Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature at King's College London. His research focuses on interactions between ancient and modern literature and thought, especially in the fields of poetics and rhetoric, literary and critical theory, history of sexualities, LGBTQ studies, and traditions of classicism.
Gail Trimble is Associate Professor in Classical Languages and Literature at the University of Oxford and Brown Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Trinity College. Her research interests focus on Latin poetry and literary form, and she has published book chapters on Catullus, Virgil, and Ovid as well as work interrogating the history of scholarship as reception.
Summary
Examining phenomena from Greek and Latin literature through the lens of metalepsis, this volume sheds new light on central features and important dynamics in ancient texts, and advances literary theory by probing how explorations of ancient metalepsis might change, refine, or extend our understanding of the concept itself.
