Reading Late Antiquity / Sigrid Schottenius Cullhed, Mats Malm (eds.).

Cover; Titel; Imprint; Table of Contents; Editorsâ#x80;#x99; Introduction; I THEORETICAL OUTLOOKS; James Uden: Untimely Antiquity: Walter Pater and the ""Vigil of Venus; Marco Formisano: Fragments, Allegory, and Anachronicity: Walter Benjamin and Claudian; JesÃðs Hernández Lobato: Late Antique Foundations of Postmodern Theory: A Critical Overview; II DECADENCE AND DECLINE; Olof Heilo: Decline and Renascence: Re-reading the Late Antiquity of Jacob Burckhardt; Scott McGiLL: Reading Against the Grain: Late Latin Literature in Huysmansâ#x80;#x99; ""Ã#x80; rebours.

Stefan Rebenich: Late Antiquity, a Gentleman Scholar and the Decline of Cultures: Oswald Spengler and ""Der Untergang des AbendlandesSigrid Schottenius Cullhed: Rome Post Mortem: The Many Returns of Rutilius Namatianus; Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer: Alma Johanna Koenigâ#x80;#x99;s ""Der heilige Palast"": The Rise and Fall of Theodora in the Belletrist of the ""Wiener Moderns; Chiara O. Tommasi: A Byzantine Phaedra between Paganism, Heresy and Magic: The Tragic Fate of Silvana in ""La Fiamma"" by Ottorino Respighi and Claudio Guastalla (1934); III CONTINUITIES AND TRANSFORMATION.

Ad Putter: Versifications of the Book of Jonah: Late Antique to Late MedievalDavid Westberg: Literary ""mimesis"" and the Late Antique Layer in John Doukasâ#x80;#x99; (or Phokasâ#x80;#x99;) ""Description of Palestine; Helena Bodin: â#x80;#x9C;I Sank through the Centuriesâ#x80;#x9D;: Late Antiquity Inscribed in GÃœran TunstrÃœmâ#x80;#x99;s Novel ""The Thief; Catherine Conybeare: ""Mundus totus exsilium est"": On Being out of Place; Notes on Contributors; Index; Backcover.

"The field of Late Antique studies has involved self-reflexion and criticism since its emergence in the late nineteenth century, but in recent years there has been a widespread desire to retrace our steps more systematically and to inquire into the millennial history of previous interpretations, historicization and uses of the end of the Greco-Roman world. This volume contributes to that enterprise. It emphasizes an aspect of Late Antiquity reception that ensues from its subordination to the Classical tradition, namely its tendency to slip in and out of western consciousness. Narratives and artifacts associated with this period have gained attention, often in times of crisis and change, and exercised influence only to disappear again. When later readers have turned to the same period and identified with what they perceive, they have tended to ascribe the feeling of relatedness to similar values and circumstances rather than to the formation of an unbroken tradition of appropriation." --Back cover.

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