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Building the Canon through the Classics
Building the Canon through the Classics. Imitation and Variation in Renaissance Italy (1350-1580) provides a comprehensive reappraisal of the construction of a literary canon in Renaissance Italy by exploring the multiple reuses of classical authorities. The volume reshapes current debate on the notion of canon by intertwining two perspectives: analyzing when and in what form a canon emerged, and determining the ways in which an ancient literary canon interacts with the urge to bestow a similar authority on some later and contemporaneous authors. Each chapter makes an original contribution to its selected topic, but the collective strength of the volume relies on its simultaneous appeal to readers in Italian Studies, intellectual history, comparative studies and classical reception studies.
Transformations of the Classics via Early Modern Commentaries
Commentaries played an important role in the transmission of the classical heritage. Early modern intellectuals rarely read classical authors in a simple and “direct” form, but generally via intermediary paratexts, especially all kinds of commentaries. Commentaries presented the classical texts in certain ways that determined and guided the readers’ perception and usages of the texts being commented upon. Early modern commentaries shaped not only school and university education and professional scholarship, but also intellectual and cultural life in the broadest sense, including politics, religion, art, entertainment, health care, geographical discoveries etc., and even various professional activities and segments of life that were seemingly far removed from scholarship and learning, such as warfare and engineering. Contributors include: Susanna de Beer, Valéry Berlincourt, Marijke Crab, Jeanine De Landtsheer, Karl Enenkel, Gergő Gellérfi, Trine Arlund Hass, Ekaterina Ilyushechkina, Ronny Kaiser, Marc Laureys, Christoph Pieper, Katharina Suter-Meyer, and Floris Verhaart.
Collections and Books, Images and Texts: Early Modern German Cultures of the Book
How did German composers brand their music as Venetian? How did the Other fare in other languages, when Cabeza’s Relación of colonial Americas appeared in translations? How did Altdorf emblems travel to colonial America and Sweden? What does Virtue look like in a library collection? And what was Boccaccio’s Decameron doing in the Ethica section? From representations of Sophie Charlotte, the first queen in Prussia, to the Ottoman Turks, from German wedding music to Till Eulenspiegel, from the translation of Horatian Odes and encyclopedias of heraldry, these essays by leading scholars explore the transmission, translation, and organization of knowledge in early modern Germany, contributing sophisticated insights to the history of the early modern book and its contents.
Horace: Satires Book I
Helps readers to translate and interpret Horace's first book of Satires in the light of recent scholarship.
Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Monasteriensis
Since 1971, the International Congress for Neo-Latin Studies has been organised every three years in various cities in Europe and North America. In August 2012, Münster in Germany was the venue of the fifteenth Neo-Latin conference, held by the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies. The proceedings of the Münster conference have been collected in this volume under the motto „ Litterae neolatinae, sedes et quasi domicilia rerum religiosarum et politicarum – Religion and Politics in Neo-Latin Literature”. Forty-five individual and five plenary papers spanning the period from the Renaissance to the present offer a variety of themes covering a range of genres such as history, literature, philology, art history, and religion. The contributions will be of relevance not only for scholarly readers, but also for an interested non-professional audience.
Physica Sacra: Wunder, Naturwissenschaft und historischer Schriftsinn zwischen Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit
Was it a whale or a shark that devoured Jonah? And how were the walls of Jericho brought down? In his wide-ranging study, Physica Sacra, Bernd Roling shows that the natural sciences and biblical exegesis have not always stood in stark opposition to one another. From the high Middle Ages, Bible commentators such as Albertus Magnus and Alonso Tostado made extensive use of the knowledge available in their times about zoology, medicine and astronomy to explain the wonders of revelation and to defend their historical basis. Even with the advent of modern Biblical criticism and in the age of Enlightenment, as is shown here in detail, their arguments were valid enough to refute critics like Spinoza, Isaac de la Peyrère and Voltaire.
The Oxford Handbook of Eighteenth-century Satire
This handbook is a guide to the kinds of satire written in English during the 'long' eighteenth century and it focuses on texts that appeared between the restoration of the Stuart monarchy in 1660 and the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789.
The Very Late Goethe
Goethe's career was an unusually long and productive one: he became a literary celebrity in the 1770s and remained so until his death in 1832. The distinguishing feature of his last works is their self-consciousness, their preoccupation both with the business of writing and with personal development. In the first cross-genre study of this period of Goethe's work, Charlotte Lee traces the theme in his last major poems and autobiographical writings, before turning to the two 'giants', 'Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre' and 'Faust II'. All these works share a tendency to allude subtly to earlier moments from Goethe's own literary output, but to fashion them into writing which is quite new - even though (or perhaps because) he himself is old. This book seeks to understand the unique perspective of one nearing the end of a long life.
Non omnis moriar
Die vorliegenden Bände enthalten die Vorträge, die bei der Trinationalen Forschungskonferenz gehalten wurden, welche die drei HerausgeberInnen zum Thema „Die Horaz-Rezeption in der neulateinischen Literatur vom 15. bis zum 17. Jahrhundert (Deutschland – Frankreich – Italien)“ in den Jahren 2012–2014 in der Villa Vigoni am Comer See veranstaltet haben. Die Forschungskonferenz setzte sich zum Ziel, die Rezeption des Horaz in der neulateinischen Literatur dreier europäischer Kerngebiete, Italien, Deutschland und Frankreich, zu untersuchen. Es galt, übergreifende Tendenzen, Entwicklungen und Zäsuren der Horaz-Rezeption in der neulateinischen Literatur der Frühen Neuzeit in ihren ...
Anmerckungen – Die Selbstkommentare Daniel Caspers von Lohenstein zu seinen Trauerspielen
Gegenstand der Untersuchung sind die umfangreichen Anmerkungsapparate des barocken Dichters Daniel Casper von Lohenstein (1635–1638) zu seinen Trauerspielen. Zentrale These der Studie ist, dass in den ‚Anmerckungen‘ ein interpretatorisches Potenzial liegt, das erst durch konsequentes Ausdeuten der intertextuellen Beziehungen zwischen Anmerkungs- und Dramentext ein umfassendes Verständnis von Lohensteins Trauerspielen möglich macht. Neben einer ausführlichen Funktionstypologie der ‚Anmerckungen‘ bietet die Arbeit eine Deutung ihrer Form mit Hilfe dreier Konzepte (‚Bibliothek‘, ‚Hypertext‘ und ‚Kommentar‘), die die Untersuchung in rezente Forschungsdiskurse einbettet. ...
