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Rhetorical Strategies in Late Antique Literature
Images, Metatexts and Interpretation
Series: - Mnemosyne, Supplements, Volume: 406
- Mnemosyne, Supplements, Late Antique Literature, Volume: 406
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Rhetorical Strategies in Late Antique Literature: Images, Metatexts and Interpretation is a collection of essays that survey the rhetorical tropes and the metaliterary dimension of works by important authors in a period marked by intense and thriving contact between Classical
paideia and Christian culture. The contributions of this volume dissect the reuse of Classical literature and the deployment of rhetorical techniques in the creation of texts and images meant for use in cultural and religious debates by building on recent interpretations of the late antique cultural landscape as a milieu in which our understanding of religious dichotomies requires a more nuanced reassessment. The authors treated in this volume include Eusebius of Caesarea, Methodius of Olympus, Gregory of Nazianzus, Nonnus and the emperor Julian.
Alberto Quiroga Puertas, Ph.D. (2006, University of Granada), is Assistant Lecturer at the University of Granada. He has edited several books and published numerous articles on the role of rhetoric in the context of late antique religious and cultural debates.
Contributors are: Javier Campos Daroca, Ryan C. Fowler, Guadalupe Lopetegui Semperena, Leonardo Lugaresi, Byron MacDougall, Laura Miguélez-Cavero, Lorenzo Miletti, Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas, José B. Torres Guerra, and Lieve Van Hoof.
Contributors are: Javier Campos Daroca, Ryan C. Fowler, Guadalupe Lopetegui Semperena, Leonardo Lugaresi, Byron MacDougall, Laura Miguélez-Cavero, Lorenzo Miletti, Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas, José B. Torres Guerra, and Lieve Van Hoof.
"Insgesamt bietet der Band sorgfältige Analysen ausgewählter Fallbeispiele zum Thema ‚Rhetorik‘ und ‚Rhetorisierung‘ in der spätantiken griechischen und lateinischen Literatur. Die gesteckten Ziele, nämlich die klassische παιδεία im Spannungsfeld zwischen heidnischer und christlicher Kultur zu zeigen und kreative Auseinandersetzungen spätantiker Autoren mit literarischen und visuellen Traditionen beispielhaft herauszuarbeiten, werden erreicht. Eine Lektüre des Buches kann daher vorbehaltlos empfohlen werden." - Nicole Kröll, in:
Plekos 21 (2019)
"Rhetorical Strategies in Late Antique Literature is a very inspiring high-quality collection of articles. All the contributions show, in a wonderful way, how vital, intelligent, amusing, and moving literature and rhetorical practices were in Late Antiquity." - Maijastina Kahlos, in: Zeitschrift Für Antikes Christentum, ZAC 23/3 (2019)
"Rhetorical Strategies in Late Antique Literature is a very inspiring high-quality collection of articles. All the contributions show, in a wonderful way, how vital, intelligent, amusing, and moving literature and rhetorical practices were in Late Antiquity." - Maijastina Kahlos, in: Zeitschrift Für Antikes Christentum, ZAC 23/3 (2019)
Scholars and students interested in cultural and religious debates in Late Antiquity in which the merging of Classical
paideia with Christian culture played a seminal role.