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Book SynopsisShowcases innovative approaches to Latin literature by reading textual absence as a generative force for literary interpretation and reception. Includes chapters by a wide range of scholars, covering some of the main authors of the Latin literary tradition, often in dialogue with modern literature and philosophy.
Table of ContentsIntroduction Tom Geue and Elena Giusti; Part I. Absence in Text: 1. Catullus' Sapphic lacuna: A Palimpsest of Absences and Presences Ábel Tamás; 2. Speaking Aposiopeseis: The (Generic) Sound of Silence in Statius' Thebaid Stefano Briguglio; 3. Allegorical Absences: Virgil, Ovid, Prudentius and Claudian Philip Hardie; 4. Tamen Apsentes Prosunt Pro Praesentibus: Proxied Absences and Roman Comedy Giuseppe Pezzini; 5. Absence Left Wanting: The Groove in Ovid's Remedia Victoria Rimell; 6. The Gaze on the Void: Hermeneutic Responses to Dido's First Appearance Viola Starnone; Part II. Absence in Context: 7. Speaking Silence in Cicero's Brutus and Tacitus' Dialogus de Oratoribus Kathrin Winter; 8. Et Sine Auctore Notissimi Uersus: Unauthored Poetry and Rome's Authoritative Turn Barbara Del Giovane; 9. Looking for the Emperor in Seneca's Letters Catharine Edwards; 10. Marcus Aurelius: Medi()ations not Medi(c)ations John Henderson; 11. Lost in Germania: The Absence of History in Tacitus' Ethnography James Mcnamara; 12. Conspicuous Absence: Tacitus' de Re Publica Ellen O'gorman; Part III. Going Beyond: 13. The Slave, Between Absence and Presence William Fitzgerald; 14. In Search of the Lost City: The Enduring Absence of Pompeii Joanna Paul; 15. Omnibus Umbra Locis Adero: Elena Ferrante and the Poetics of Absence Francesca Bellei; 16. The Philology of Grief: Catullus 101 and Anne Carson's Nox Erik Fredericksen; 17. Absence, Metaphysically Speaking: From Reception to Instauration? Duncan Kennedy; 18. Afterword: Lights Out Emily Gowers.
