A Late Antique Poetics The Jeweled Style Revisited Joshua Hartman Helen Kaufmann Editors by Joshua Hartman; Helen Kaufmann (editors) 9781350346406, 9781350346437 instant download after payment.

The poetry of the late Roman world has a fascinating history. Sometimes an object of derision, sometimes an object of admiration, it has found numerous detractors and defenders among classicists and Latin literary critics. This volume explores the scholarly approaches to late Latin poetry that have developed over the last forty years, and it seeks especially to develop, complement and challenge the seminal concept of the ‘Jeweled Style’ proposed by Michael Roberts in 1989. While Roberts’s monograph has long been a vade mecum within the world of late antique literary studies, a critical reassessment of its validity as a concept is overdue.
This volume invites established and emerging scholars from different research traditions to return to the influential conclusions put forward by Roberts. It asks them to examine the continued relevance of The Jeweled Style and to suggest new ways to engage it. In a joint effort, the nineteen chapters of this volume define and map the jeweled style, extending it to new genres, geographic regions, time periods and methodologies. Each contribution seeks to provide insightful analysis that integrates the last thirty years of scholarship while pursuing ambitious applications of the jeweled style within and beyond the world of late antiquity.
The Latin poetry of late antiquity is at the heart of A Late Latin Poetics? The Jeweled Style Revisited, and the volume aims to develop, complement and challenge Michael Roberts’s highly influential concept of The Jeweled Style (1989). In its first part, it examines how the concept of the jeweled style applies to poetry outside the late antique Roman West including imperial poetry in Latin and Greek as well as late antique prose. Scholars in this section also clarify specific aspects of the jeweled style, for example enumeration, unity or use of the phrase before Michael Roberts’s monograph. All of these studies understand the jeweled style as a set of formal features not limited to late antique literature. In the second part, experts of late antiquity interpret the jeweled style in its late antique context, drawing connections to Christian praise, homiletics, architectural ecphrasis, epigrams and centos. Furthermore, in this section, the jeweled style is contextualised within contemporary scholarly discourses such as exegesis or Neoplatonism. Throughout the volume, scholars suggest new ways of engaging with the jeweled style. Crucial to these approaches, and to the appeal of the volume, are analyses that integrate the last thirty years of scholarship on the concept while pursuing new methodologies and applications, extending the jeweled style to new genres, geographic regions and time periods.