Code
3F017315
Duration
01 October 2015 → 30 September 2019
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Humanities and the arts
- Language studies
- Literary studies
Keywords
Domitian
narrative
meta-narrative
Cognitive Poetics
unnatural narratology
silence
Polysystem Theory
Latin
20th Century
Contemporary
Antiquity
Comparative
Language and text analysis
Western Europe
Literary studies
Project description
This project seeks to examen the function(s) of silence in Latin literature written during and just after the reign of the Roman emperor Domitian (ca.81-105). The uses of silence(s) in texts will be explored as a narratological phenomenon; as a possible commentary on the generic hierarcy; and as a way for authors to create a self-image in an imperial culture.