Project

"I can't go on. I'll go on." Silence as a multifunctional concept in Latin Domitianic literature (ca. 81-105)

Code

3F017315

Duration

01 October 2015 → 30 September 2019

Funding

Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)

Promotor

Wim Verbaal

Fellow

Tim Noens

Research disciplines

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.