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Classicism and Christianity in Late Antique Latin Poetry by Philip Hardie (review)
Ist Teil von
Journal of Late Antiquity, 2020-10, Vol.13 (2), p.440-442
Ort / Verlag
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2020
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Project MUSE
Beschreibungen/Notizen
[...]Hardie argues, content constitutes the primary difference between Late Antiquity's Christian and traditional Latin poetry and contrastimitation stands as a privileged technique by which Christian poets bridged content and form (e.g., 2 and 39). [...]as the readings of this chapter are meant to illustrate, the critical methods developed in recent decades by scholars of early imperial poetry are appropriate and effective for assessing late ancient poetry, Christian and traditional alike. Though sympathetic to the allure of aligning the "visual and verbal arts" (224), Hardie senses that since Michael Roberts's The Jeweled Style (1989) boosted its stock, the mosaic metaphor has been applied inconsistently, imprecisely, and anachronistically. [...]he avers, the associated claims on behalf of an overarching late antique "aesthetics of the fragmentary" (229) overgeneralizes on the basis of the cento, a significant but hardly representative form, and depends too heavily upon a postmodern privileging of collage, bricolage, and spoliation (243).