Historia and Fabula

Historia and Fabula PDF Author: Peter G. Bietenholz
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004100633
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 472

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Examining a variety of texts ranging from the Ancient Near East to the nineteenth century, this book deals with the inevitable presence of both fact and fiction in historical thought and investigates when, where and to what degree they were distinguished.

Historia and Fabula

Historia and Fabula PDF Author: Peter G. Bietenholz
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004100633
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 472

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Book Description
Examining a variety of texts ranging from the Ancient Near East to the nineteenth century, this book deals with the inevitable presence of both fact and fiction in historical thought and investigates when, where and to what degree they were distinguished.

Horace on Poetry

Horace on Poetry PDF Author: C. O. Brink
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521077842
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 598

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This 1971 text is the second of a three-volume commentary on Horace's literary epistles. The core of the book is a critical text of the Ars Poetica with a commentary on the poem. The complete three-volume commentary constitutes one of the fullest on Horace's critical writing.

History, Fiction, Verisimilitude

History, Fiction, Verisimilitude PDF Author: Mark Chinca
Publisher: MHRA
ISBN: 9780947623494
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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This study of Gottfried von Strassburg discusses the narrative technique of his romance Tristan (c. 1210) against the double background of Latin rhetoric and poetics on the one hand, and the developing written vernacular tradition on the other. It argues that Gottfried's poetics represents the attempt to mediate between opposing tendencies in vernacular narrative, the one historiographic and archival, the other fictional and experimental. Verisimilitude, the res ficta quae tamen fieri potest, occupies an intermediate position between the res factae of history and the res fictae of poetry; it is on this middle ground that Gottfried situates his narrative.

The Medieval Classic

The Medieval Classic PDF Author: Justin A. Haynes
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019009138X
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 229

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The Medieval Classic considers how ancient and medieval commentaries on the Aeneid by Servius, Fulgentius, Bernard Silvestris, and others can give us new insights into four twelfth-century Latin epics -- the Ylias by Joseph of Exeter, the Alexandreis by Walter of Châtillon, the Anticlaudianus by Alan of Lille, and the Architrenius by John of Hauville. Justin Haynes argues that the most profound connections between medieval epic and the Aeneid have been overlooked because ancient and medieval interpretations, as preserved by the commentary tradition, were often radically different from modern ones. By explaining how to interpret the Aeneid, these commentaries directly influenced the way in which medieval authors were inspired by the poem. At the same time, these commentaries allow us a greater awareness of the generic expectations held by medieval readers. Because two of the medieval epics considered here are allegorical narratives, this book offers new perspectives on the importance of commentaries in the development of allegorical literature. Thus, The Medieval Classic contributes to our understanding of ancient and medieval perceptions of the Aeneid while exploring the importance of commentaries in shaping poetic composition, imitation, and the history of allegorical literature.

The First Pagan Historian

The First Pagan Historian PDF Author: Frederic Clark
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197540724
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 367

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In The History of the Destruction of Troy, Dares the Phrygian boldly claimed to be an eyewitness to the Trojan War, while challenging the accounts of two of the ancient world's most canonical poets, Homer and Virgil. For over a millennium, Dares' work was circulated as the first pagan history. It promised facts and only facts about what really happened at Troy — precise casualty figures, no mention of mythical phenomena, and a claim that Troy fell when Aeneas and other Trojans betrayed their city and opened its gates to the Greeks. But for all its intrigue, the work was as fake as it was sensational. From the late antique encyclopedist Isidore of Seville to Thomas Jefferson, The First Pagan Historian offers the first comprehensive account of Dares' rise and fall as a reliable and canonical guide to the distant past. Along the way, it reconstructs the central role of forgery in longstanding debates over the nature of history, fiction, criticism, philology, and myth, from ancient Rome to the Enlightenment.

Classical Myths in Italian Renaissance Painting

Classical Myths in Italian Renaissance Painting PDF Author: Luba Freedman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107001196
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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"The book is about a new development in Italian Renaissance art; its aim is to show how artists and humanists came together to effect this revolution, it is important because this is a long-ignored but crucial aspect of the Italian Renaissance, showing us why the masterpieces we take for granted are the way they are, and thre is no competitor in the field. The book sheds light on some of the world's greatest masterpirces of art, including Botticelli's Venus, Leonardo's Leda, Raphael's Galatea, and Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne"--Provided by publisher.

Fantastic histories

Fantastic histories PDF Author: Victoria Flood
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526164132
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 219

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Fantastic Histories explores the political and cultural contexts of the entry of fairies to the historical record in twelfth century England, and the subsequent uses of fairy narratives in both insular and continental history and romance. It traces the uses of the fairy as a contested marker of historicity and fictionality in the histories of Gerald of Wales and Walter Map, the continental mirabilia of Gervase of Tilbury, and the fourteenth- and fifteenth-century French Mélusine romances and their early English reception. Working across insular and continental source material, Fantastic Histories explores the practices of history-writing, fiction-making, and the culturally determined boundaries of wonder that defined the limits of medieval history.

Text and Intertext in Medieval Arthurian Literature

Text and Intertext in Medieval Arthurian Literature PDF Author: Norris J. Lacy
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0815323859
Category : Arthurian romances
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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Book Description
First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Cambridge Companion to Ovid

The Cambridge Companion to Ovid PDF Author: Philip R. Hardie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521775281
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424

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Book Description
Ovid was one of the greatest writers of classical antiquity, and arguably the single most influential ancient poet for post-classical literature and culture. In this Cambridge Companion, chapters by leading authorities from Europe and North America discuss the backgrounds and contexts for Ovid, the individual works, and his influence on later literature and art. Coverage of essential information is combined with exciting critical approaches. This Companion is designed both as an accessible handbook for the general reader who wishes to learn about Ovid, and as a series of stimulating essays for students of Latin poetry and of the classical tradition.

The Beginnings of Medieval Romance

The Beginnings of Medieval Romance PDF Author: Dennis Howard Green
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521813999
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 310

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