TY  - BOOK
AU  - Formisano,Marco
AU  - Fuhrer,Therese
AU  - Stock,Anna-Lena
TI  - Décadence: "Decline and Fall" or "Other Antiquity"?
T2  - Bibliothek der klassischen Altertumswissenschaften, Neue Folge, 2. Reihe
SN  - 9783825373955
AV  - PQ4085 .F384 2014 
U1  - 808.1092368 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Heidelberg
PB  - Universitätsverlag Winter
KW  - Classical literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Civilization, Greco-Roman
KW  - Degeneration in literature
KW  - Littérature ancienne
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - Congrès
KW  - Civilisation gréco-romaine
KW  - Dégénérescence dans la littérature
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Conference papers and proceedings
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - The Library of the Other Antiquity; Contents; Preface; Marco Formisano: Reading Décadence -- Reception and the Subaltern Late Antiquity; I. Décadence in Antiquity; Therese Fuhrer: Das Interesse am menschlichen Scheitern -- Antike Konstruktionen des 'Niedergangs' einer Kultur; Gillian Clark: Fragile Brilliance -- Augustine, decadence, and "other antiquity; II. Imagining Late Antiquity: Décadence and Modernity; Helmut Pfeiffer: Flauberts Versuchung der Spätantike; Carlo Santini: "Aus einem Staat, der an einem Sprachfehler zugrundegegangen ist" -- Musil tardo-antico; Karin Schlapbach: "Under the full impact of a catastrophic end" -- Augustine and the fall of Rome in Hannah Arendt's readingIII. The Fertility of Décadence; Michael Roberts: Friedrich Mehmel, Pompatic Poetics, and Claudian's Epithalamium for the Marriage of Honorius and Maria; Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer: Die 'Lust' der Poesie -- 'Décadence' in den spätantiken Epithalamien (Claudius Claudianus, c. m. 25 und Sidonius Apollinaris, cc. 10-11; 14-15; Danuta Shanzer: Incest and Late Antiquity -- Décadence; IV. Reception: Late Antique Poetics; Stephen Hinds: 'The self-conscious cento; Sigrid Schottenius Cullhed: Proba and JeromeJan Stenger: Der 'barocke' Stil des Ammianus Marcellinus -- Vom heuristischen Nutzen eines folgenreichen Verdikts; Étienne Wolff: Quelques jalons dans l'histoire de la réception de Sidoine Apollinaire; V. Décadence: Good to Think With?; Ilaria L.E. Ramelli: Décadence Denounced in the Controversy over Origen -- Giving Up Direct Reading of Sources and Counteractions; Christoph Markschies: Décadence? Christliche Theologen der Spätantike über den Verfall von Moral und Glauben seit Kaiser Konstantin; Andreas T. Zanker: Decline and Kunstprosa -- Velleius Paterculus and Eduard NordenNotes on Contributors; Index locorum; 1.) Scripture; 2.) Ancient Literature; 3.) Medieval and Early Modern Literature; 4.) Modern Literature; Index nominum et rerum
N2  - No scholar today would describe late antiquity as an age of "decline and fall", as Gibbon did; instead, to use Marrou's term, it is seen as an "other antiquity", which deserves to be investigated on its own terms. Yet the idea of a decadent period, accompanied by a fascination for the image of antiquity on the wane, continues to live in scholarly minds, as is suggested, after all, by the recurring insistence on the point that late antiquity was not a period of decline. This collection of papers engages in a productive way with the fascination exerted by the concept of an era in decline and a l
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