The Neo-Latin Epigram: A Learned and Witty Genre Contributor(s): De Beer, Susanna (Editor), Enenkel, Karl (Editor), Rijser, David (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9058677451 ISBN-13: 9789058677457 Publisher: Leuven University Press OUR PRICE: $74.25 Product Type: Hardcover Published: September 2010 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Foreign Language Study | Latin |
Dewey: 480 |
Series: Supplemena Humanistica Lovaniensia |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.2" W x 9.4" (1.30 lbs) 338 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The epigram is certainly one of the most intriguing, while at the same time most elusive, genres of Neo-Latin literature. From the end of the fifteenth century, almost every humanist writer who regarded himself a true poeta had composed a respectable number of epigrams. Given our sense of poetical aesthetics, be it idealistic, postidealistic, modern, or postmodern, the epigrammatic genre is difficult to understand. Because of its close ties with the historical and social context, it does not fit any of these aesthetic approaches. By presenting various epigram writers, collections, and subgenres from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century, this volume offers a first step toward a better understanding of some of the features of humanist epigram literature. |
Contributor Bio(s): Enenkel, Karl: - Karl Enenkel is Professor of Latin Philology of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität (WWU), Münster. |