Labor Imperfectus: Unfinished, Incomplete, Partial Texts in Classical Antiquity - Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes - Jacqueline Fabre-Serris - Books - De Gruyter - 9783112215548 - June 30, 2025
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Jacqueline Fabre-Serris
Labor Imperfectus: Unfinished, Incomplete, Partial Texts in Classical Antiquity - Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes

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Unfinishedness and incompleteness are a central feature of ancient Greek and Roman literature that has often been taken for granted but not deeply examined; many texts have been transmitted to us incomplete. How and to what extent has this feature of many texts influenced their aesthetic perception and interpretation, and how does it still influence them today? Also, how do various editorial arrangements of fragmentary texts influence the reconstruction of closure? These important questions offer the opportunity to bring together specialists working on Greek and Roman texts across various genres: epic, tragedy, poetry, mythographic texts, rhetorical texts, philosophical treatises, and the novel. Reading a text by focusing on its current unfinishedness or incompleteness, or the textual signs suggesting an unfinished or incomplete state, the contributors examine the relations between author, reader and text as underscored by the verbal, generic and aesthetic features of each work.

This edited volume brings together a broad spectrum of approaches to ancient and modern texts and aims to reach out to a broad scholarly community consisting not only of Classicists but also scholars of other literature and aesthetics.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released June 30, 2025
ISBN13 9783112215548
Publishers De Gruyter
Pages 443
Dimensions 150 × 220 × 10 mm   ·   807 g
Language German  
Editor Fabre-Serris, Jacqueline
Editor Formisano, Marco
Editor Frangoulidis, Stavros

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