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Bibliothek der klassischen Altertumswissenschaften, Neue Folge, 2. Reihe ; v. 140
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Bibliothek der klassischen Altertumswissenschaften, Neue Folge, 2. Reihe.
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The Library of the Other Antiquity; Contents; Preface; Marco Formisano: Reading Décadence -- Reception and the Subaltern Late Antiquity; I. Décadence in Antiquity; Therese Fuhrer: Das Interesse am menschlichen Scheitern -- Antike Konstruktionen des 'Niedergangs' einer Kultur; Gillian Clark: Fragile Brilliance -- Augustine, decadence, and "other antiquity; II. Imagining Late Antiquity: Décadence and Modernity; Helmut Pfeiffer: Flauberts Versuchung der Spätantike; Carlo Santini: "Aus einem Staat, der an einem Sprachfehler zugrundegegangen ist" -- Musil tardo-antico. |
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Karin Schlapbach: "Under the full impact of a catastrophic end" -- Augustine and the fall of Rome in Hannah Arendt's readingIII. The Fertility of Décadence; Michael Roberts: Friedrich Mehmel, Pompatic Poetics, and Claudian's Epithalamium for the Marriage of Honorius and Maria; Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer: Die 'Lust' der Poesie -- 'Décadence' in den spätantiken Epithalamien (Claudius Claudianus, c. m. 25 und Sidonius Apollinaris, cc. 10-11; 14-15; Danuta Shanzer: Incest and Late Antiquity -- Décadence; IV. Reception: Late Antique Poetics; Stephen Hinds: 'The self-conscious cento. |
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Sigrid Schottenius Cullhed: Proba and JeromeJan Stenger: Der 'barocke' Stil des Ammianus Marcellinus -- Vom heuristischen Nutzen eines folgenreichen Verdikts; Étienne Wolff: Quelques jalons dans l'histoire de la réception de Sidoine Apollinaire; V. Décadence: Good to Think With?; Ilaria L.E. Ramelli: Décadence Denounced in the Controversy over Origen -- Giving Up Direct Reading of Sources and Counteractions; Christoph Markschies: Décadence? Christliche Theologen der Spätantike über den Verfall von Moral und Glauben seit Kaiser Konstantin. |
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Andreas T. Zanker: Decline and Kunstprosa -- Velleius Paterculus and Eduard NordenNotes on Contributors; Index locorum; 1.) Scripture; 2.) Ancient Literature; 3.) Medieval and Early Modern Literature; 4.) Modern Literature; Index nominum et rerum. |
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No scholar today would describe late antiquity as an age of "decline and fall", as Gibbon did; instead, to use Marrou's term, it is seen as an "other antiquity", which deserves to be investigated on its own terms. Yet the idea of a decadent period, accompanied by a fascination for the image of antiquity on the wane, continues to live in scholarly minds, as is suggested, after all, by the recurring insistence on the point that late antiquity was not a period of decline. This collection of papers engages in a productive way with the fascination exerted by the concept of an era in decline and a l. |
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Classical literature -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
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Classical literature. |
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Civilization, Greco-Roman -- Congresses.
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Civilization, Greco-Roman. |
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Degeneration in literature -- Congresses.
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Degeneration in literature. |
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Fuhrer, Therese.
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Stock, Anna-Lena.
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Print version: Formisano, Marco. Décadence. Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, 2014 9783825373955 |
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9783825373955 (electronic book) |
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3825373959 |
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3825361624 |
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9783825361624 |
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