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PARATEXTUALITY AND THE READER IN LATIN COLLECTIONS
March 19, 2011 – School of Classics, University of St Andrews
Organiser: Laura Jansen (lij AT st-andrews.ac.uk)
This workshop explores the interplay between paratextuality and reception in
Latin verse and prose collections. Amongst critical and methodological
issues, it will probe the role indices, book numbers, inscriptions, titles,
false prefaces, and editorial postscripts have in our reading of collected
letters and poems, works of historiography and the commentary tradition.
Discussion aims to develop a new direction in the criticism of the structure
of Latin collections, and a new understanding of how this literature signals
the construction of its own readers through the lens of the paratext.Speakers and papers:
Duncan Kennedy, University of Bristol
"’The ‘ins’ and ‘outs’ of paratextuality: theoretical reflections"Laura Jansen, University of St Andrews
"Ovidian Paratexts: Editorial Postscript and Readers in ex Ponto 1-3"Roy Gibson, University of Manchester
"Starting with the index in the Letters of Pliny the Younger"Roger Rees, University of St Andrews
"Texts and Paratexts as deliberate misinformation in Ammianus"Monica Gale, University of Dublin, Trinity College
" ‘aliquid putare nugas’: literary filiation, critical communities and
reader-response in the Catullan paratext"Donncha O’Rourke, University of Oxford
"Paratext and Intertext in Propertius"Bruce Gibson, University of Liverpool
"Commentary as Paratext: Spenser’s Shepheardes Calender and the Eclogues of
Virgil"For more details, please see:
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/classics/conferences/paratextuality/index.shtml
For further information, please contact:
Dr Laura Jansen(lij AT standrews.ac.uk)
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