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Author(s):	Paolo Felice Sacchi

Date:	2021	Format:	pdf	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	135028193X
Pages:	304	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
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This volume makes a powerful argument for epitome (combining textual dismemberment and re-composition) as a broad hermeneutic field encompassing multifarious historical, conceptual and aesthetical concerns. The contributors gather from across the globe to present case studies of the 'summing up' of cultural artefacts, literary and artistic, in epitomic writing, and as a collective they demonstrate the importance of this genre that has been largely overlooked by scholars.

The volume is divided into five sections: the first showcases the broad range of fields from which epitomic analysis can be made, from classics to postmodernism to cultural memory studies  the second focuses in on epitome as dismemberment in writing from late antiquity to the modern day  the third considers a 'productive negativity' of epitomic writings and how they are useful tools for investigating the very borders and paradoxes of language  the fourth brings this to bear on materiality  the fifth considers re-composition as a counterpart to dismemberment and problematises it.

Across the volume, examples are taken from important late antique writers such as Ausonius, Clement of Alexandria, Macrobius, Nepos, Nonius Marcellus and Symphosius, and from modern authors such as Antonin Artaud, Barthes, Nabokov and Pascal Quignard. Epitomic writings about art from decorated
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