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Campus | Bryn Mawr |
Semester | Fall 2019 |
Registration ID | LATNB350001 |
Course Title | Topics in Latin Literature-Postclass:Flavian/LateAnt/Ren |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | Classical Languages |
Instructor | Mulligan,Bret |
Times and Days | F 01:10pm-04:00pm
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Room Location | CARP13 |
Additional Course Info | Class Number: 1400 This is a topics course. Course content varies.; Current topic description: Postclassicisms: Flavian/Late Antique/Renaissance This seminar will explore the concept of the “postclassical” and how subsequent authors engage “classical” authors, genres, works, and ideas. We will focus on three distinctive moments in which secondariness emerged as a formative element of aesthetic and intellectual programs: the Flavian period, Late Antiquity (broadly conceived), and the Renaissance (southern and northern). We will consider the configuration and transmission of classical canons and how these spurred envy, anxiety, rivalry, innovation, and (mis)/(re)interpretation (among other creative responses)—as well as the role that postclassical moments played in the construction of the classical. Alongside our collective investigation of a specific text or genre (likely one in prose and one in verse), students will have the opportunity to trace the iterative reception of an author, idea, or genre through these three epochs. Most of the work in the course will be Latin; but there will some opportunities, for those so inclined, to look to Greek as well. Haverford: A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) (A), Humanities (HU) . |
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