1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462015603321

Autore

Powell Manushag N

Titolo

Performing authorship in eighteenth-century English periodicals [[electronic resource] /] / Manushag N. Powell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lewisburg [PA], : Bucknell University Press

Lanham, MD, : Rowman & Littlefield Pub., c2012

ISBN

1-283-63894-0

1-61148-417-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Collana

Transits : literature, thought & culture

Disciplina

828/.509

Soggetti

English periodicals - History - 18th century

English prose literature - 18th century - History and criticism

Periodicals - Publishing - Great Britain - History - 18th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; LIST OF FIGURES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1. AUTHOR AND EIDOLON; CHAPTER 2. EARLY PERIODICAL CROSS-DRESSING; CHAPTER 3. PERFORMANCE, MASCULINITY, AND PAPER WARS; CHAPTER 4. FEMININITY AND THE PERIODICAL; CHAPTER 5. NO ANIMAL IN NATURE SO MORTAL AS AN AUTHOR, OR, DEATH AND THE EIDOLON; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Sommario/riassunto

Performing Authorship in Eighteenth-Century Periodicals by Manushag N. Powell embraces periodicals across the first two-thirds of the eighteenth century to argue that this mode of writing, packed with humor and verve, originates the figure of the mass-market author as a literary character. Powell posits that, at the same time, periodicals harbor inescapable doubts as to whether such a character, and by extension their own genre, is sustainable in the long term.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910452843103321

Titolo

Generic interfaces in Latin literature [[electronic resource] ] : encounters, interactions and transformations / / edited by Theodore D. Papanghelis, Stephen J. Harrison and Stavros Frangoulidis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, : De Gruyter, 2013

ISBN

3-11-030369-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (488 p.)

Collana

Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes ; ; 20

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes, , 1868-4785 ; ; v. 20

Classificazione

FT 12500

Altri autori (Persone)

PapanghelisTheodore D

HarrisonS. J

FrangoulidisStavros A

Disciplina

870.9/001

Soggetti

Latin literature - History and criticism

Literary form

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- Genre and Super-Genre -- The (Dis)continuity of Genre: A Comment on the Romans and the Greeks -- Architectural Ecphrasis in Roman Poetry -- Hypertexts and Auxiliary Texts: New Genres in Late Antiquity? -- The Genre of Cicero’s De consulatu suo -- Fear and Loathing in Lucretius: Latent Tragedy and Anti-Allusion in DRN 3 -- Lucan and Caesar: Epic and Commentarius -- Achilles and the improba virgo -- Claudianism in the De Raptu Proserpinae -- Shepherds’ Songs: Generic Variation in Renaissance Latin Epic -- Too Much Semiotics will Spoil the Genre -- Virgil’s Eclogue 4.60–3: A Space of Generic Enrichment -- Comedy and Elegy in Calpurnian Pastoral: ‘Generic Interplays’ in Calp. 3 -- Transformations of Paraclausithyron in Plautus’ Curculio -- The Invention of Satire: A Paradigmatic Case? -- The Afterlife of Varro in Horace’s Sermones -- One Verse of Mimnermus? -- The Poet’s Afterlife: Ovid between Epic and Elegy -- Didactic and Lyric in Horace Odes 2: Lucretius and Vergil -- Letters into Autobiography: The Generic Mobility of the Ancient Letter Collection -- Is historia a Genre? --



Tacitean Fusion: Tiberius the Satirist? -- Apollonius King of Tyre: Between Novel and New Comedy -- Notes on Contributors -- Index Locorum -- General Index

Sommario/riassunto

Neither older empiricist positions that genre is an abstract concept, useless for the study of individual works of literature, nor the recent (post) modern reluctance to subject literary production to any kind of classification seem to have stilled the discussion on the various aspects of genre in classical literature. Having moved from more or less essentialist and/or prescriptive positions towards a more dynamic conception of the generic model, research on genre is currently considering "pushing beyond the boundaries", "impurity", "instability", "enrichment" and "genre-bending". The aim of this volume is to raise questions of such generic mobility in Latin literature. The papers explore ways in which works assigned to a particular generic area play host to formal and substantive elements associated with different or even opposing genres; assess literary works which seem to challenge perceived generic norms; highlight, along the literary-historical, the ideological and political backgrounds to "dislocations" of the generic map.