Imitative Series and Clusters from Classical to Early Modern Literature

Colin Burrow, Stephen J. Harrison, Martin McLaughlin, Elisabetta Tarantino

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2020
• eBook ISBN: 9783110699692
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Ancient & Classical Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

This volume shows the pervasiveness over a millennium and a half of the little-studied phenomenon of multi-tier intertextuality, whether as 'linear' window reference – where author C simultaneously imitates or alludes to a text by author A and its imitation by author B – or as multi-directional imitative clusters.

It begins with essays on classical literature from Homer to the high Roman empire, where the feature first becomes prominent; then comes late antiquity, a lively area of research at present; and, after a series of essays on European neo-Latin literature from Petrarch to 1600, another area where developments are moving rapidly, the volume concludes with early modern vernacular literatures (Italian, French, Portuguese and English). Most papers concern verse, but prose is not ignored. The introduction to the volume discusses the relevant methodological issues. An Afterword outlines the critical history of 'window reference' and includes a short essay by Professor Richard Thomas, of Harvard University, who coined the term in the 1980s.

Name Index

• • A
  • Accius n,1, 2, 3
  • Achaea1
  • Achilles1, 2, 3, 4, 4, 5, 6, 7
  • Acoetes1, 2
  • Acroceraunia1
  • Actaeon1, 2, 3
  • Actium1, 2
  • Adams, Colin n1
  • Adonis1, 2
  • Aegean Sea1
  • Aelius Herodianus n1
  • Aemilii Paulli family1
  • Aemilius Paullus1
  • Aeneas n, n, n, n1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 6, 6, 7, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 20, 21, 22, 23, 23, 24, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 28, 29, 29, 30, 31, 31, 32, 33, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37
  • Aeolus1, 2
  • Aeschylus1
  • Africa, North1, 2, 3, 4, 5
  • Agamemnon1
  • Ahl, Frederick n, n1, 2
  • Ajax n,1, 2
  • Akujärvi, Johanna n1
  • Alba Longa1, 2
  • Alberti, Leon Battista n1, 2
  • Alcina1, 2
  • Alexander, Gavin ...

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Serial Similes in the Battle-Narrative of Virgil’s Aeneid
• The Constant Helmsman: Acoetes, Palinurus, and the Homeric Hymn to Dionysus
• Fisher of Men: A New Reading of Ausonius’ Catalogue of Fish
• The Works of the Sea: Mapping the Itineraries of Imitation in Late Antique Epic
• Transgressing Pastoral: Mediated Responses to Aeneid 6 in Calpurnius, Nemesianus, and the Carmina Einsiedlensia
• Window Reference in Latin Bucolic: The Case of Martius Valerius
• The Chain of Imitations in Petrarch’s Africa
• Multiple Allusivity in Girolamo Vida’s De Arte Poetica
• Virgo laetissima: The Art of Allusion in Sannazaro’s De partu Virginis
• Windows on the World: The Literary Revolutions of Adam King’s Genethliacon Iesu Christi
• Imitation and Allusion in Machiavelli’s Istorie fiorentine: Between Contemporary Sources and Classical Models
• ‘Un traict à la comparaison de ces couples’: Seneca’s Poets and Epicurean Senecanisms in Montaigne’s Essais
• Reading through the Sound of Trumpets: Camões’s Political Opinions and the Pattern of Allusion in Os Lusíadas
• Allusion and Horror: The Afterlives of Polydorus
• ‘An huge great stone’: Two Types of Allusion in The Faerie Queene
• What’s in a Blush? Constellating Aeneid 12.64–9 and Amores 2.5.33–40 in Spenser’s Legend of Chastity
• Editors’ Afterword on Window Reference
• Window on the Eighties
• Notes on Contributors
• Name Index