The Full-knowing Reader: Allusion and the Power of the Reader in the Western Literary TraditionYale University Press, 01.01.1998 - 263 Seiten Literary allusions abound in Western literature, and those who study them tend to focus on the author's intentions to demonstrate erudition, embellish meaning, or exert control over tradition. In this original and illuminating book -- the first fullscale consideration of literary allusion in any language -- Joseph Pucci contends that the key to grasping the meaning of an allusive text is in the hands of the "full-knowing" reader. Pucci shows how allusion authorizes the desires of such a reader -- one who is active, engaged, and historically sensitive -- at the expense of the author. He considers allusiveness in an array of ancient, medieval, and modern texts by authors as diverse as Homer, Virgil, Catullus, Augustine, Abelard, Dante, Goethe, Baudelaire, and Pound.Pucci begins with a discussion of modern and contemporary debates about allusion's function; offers a fresh definition of allusion that emphasizes readerly desire and the manifold meanings occasioned in allusion's best function; and considers ancient and medieval evidence of readerly power. Although Greeks and Romans described allusion in the context of a powerful reader, Pucci finds that allusion became a legitimated mode of literary discourse only after early Christian readers became meaning-makers, empowered to make sense of dissonant passages of Scripture. In a concluding chapter the author contemplates hypertext and allusion in other media."Pucci's prose style is admirably readable, lucid, and engaging, with enough surprises to keep even an empowered reader enthralled. I think this opus significant enough to be in every Library". -- Daryl Hine, editor of Ovid's Heroines: A Verse Translation of the "Heroides" |
Inhalt
Contemporary Versions of Allusion | 3 |
Versions of Reading | 51 |
Versions of Allusion | 83 |
Catullus Callimachus Anacreon Sappho III | 111 |
Augustine and Horace | 149 |
Abelard Ovid and Lucan | 178 |
Dante and Ovid | 199 |
Pound and Contemporary Allusion | 223 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Abelard Aeneas Aeneid Aeschylus allusio allusive space Andromache antiquity Aphrodite Apollo Arachne Arachne's Aristophanes articulate artistic audience Augustine Augustine's bello civili Callimachus's canto carmen Cassiodorus Catullus the lover Catullus the poet Catullus's centers Christian rhetoric classical Commedia Confessions context critical culture Dante Dante's Dikaiopolis discussion drama emotional epic Euripides Evangelus figure full-knowing reader Georgics grafting Greek Heloise Historia Calamitatum Homer Horace Horace's human images implies important interpretive language Latin Lesbia lines linkage literary borrowing literary tradition Lucan Macrobius meaning notion Odes offers otium Ovid Ovid's Ovidian passage passer play of allusive poem poem's Poetics poetry Pompey powerful reader qualities Quintilian quod readerly power reading Sappho Sappho 31 Saturnalia says scene Scripture seeks sense situation of discourse speaker specific spiritual suggest symbol Terence textual tion translation verb verbal verse Virgil Virgilian voice Western literary words writing
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