Author: Catapano, Giovanni
Title: Il volo di Medea e la voce della ragione: metaletteratura e autoriflessività nei « Soliloquia » di Agostino
Review/Collection: In : Jesús Hernández Lobato & Óscar Prieto Domínguez, Literature squared : self-reflexivity in late antique literatur (Studi e Testi Tardoantichi, 18), Turnhout: Brepols, 2020. 314 p.
Year edition: 2020
Pages: 151-174
Keywords: Héritage - Fortuna - Legacy, Stylistique et genres littéraires - Stilistica e generi letterari - Stylistics and literary genre
Description: Augustine’s Soliloquia contain some considerations about literature as ‘fiction’, which seem not yet to have attracted the attention of the interpreters. This article highlights these considerations and examines whether and to what extent they are applicable, in a self-reflexive manner, to the Soliloquia themselves understood as fake dialogue. The article refers in particular to the concept of mythical fiction and tries to interpret it in the light of the distinction between history, sham and myth made by Cicero in his De inuentione. [Author]
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Author initials: Catapano 2020
Title: Il volo di Medea e la voce della ragione: metaletteratura e autoriflessività nei « Soliloquia » di Agostino
Review/Collection: In : Jesús Hernández Lobato & Óscar Prieto Domínguez, Literature squared : self-reflexivity in late antique literatur (Studi e Testi Tardoantichi, 18), Turnhout: Brepols, 2020. 314 p.
Year edition: 2020
Pages: 151-174
Keywords: Héritage - Fortuna - Legacy, Stylistique et genres littéraires - Stilistica e generi letterari - Stylistics and literary genre
Description: Augustine’s Soliloquia contain some considerations about literature as ‘fiction’, which seem not yet to have attracted the attention of the interpreters. This article highlights these considerations and examines whether and to what extent they are applicable, in a self-reflexive manner, to the Soliloquia themselves understood as fake dialogue. The article refers in particular to the concept of mythical fiction and tries to interpret it in the light of the distinction between history, sham and myth made by Cicero in his De inuentione. [Author]
Works:
Author initials: Catapano 2020
