Bruno, Nicoletta
(ed.)
Filosa, Martina
(ed.)
Marinelli, Giulia
(ed.)
Editorial: Walter de Gruyter
Colección: Beiträge zur Altertumskunde ; 304
Número de páginas: 338 págs.
Fecha de edición: 07-03-2022
EAN: 9783110740387
ISBN: 978-3-11-074038-7
Precio (sin IVA): 125,35 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 130,36 €
The present volume explores the devices and criteria of selection and loss in Ancient and Medieval texts and the subsequent fragmentation of such literature, but it also addresses the questions of the damnatio memoriae, of literary strategies such as reticence and omission, as well as of known texts deemed lost but re-found thanks to state-of-the-art methods in digitization. The many and diverse nuances of the concepts of omission, selection, and loss throughout Ancient and Medieval literature and history are illustrated through a number of case studies in the four sections of this volume, each examining a different facet of the topic: ‘Mechanisms and criteria of textual loss and selection’, ‘Lost texts re-discovered’, ‘Voluntary omissions and desire for oblivion’, and ‘Re-working the known’.