Code
3F013010
Duration
01 October 2010 → 30 September 2014
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Humanities
- Language studies
- Literary studies
- Theory and methodology of language studies
- Theory and methodology of linguistics
- Theory and methodology of literary studies
- Other languages and literary studies
Keywords
genre
poetics
Ancient Greek literature
Project description
Late antique poetry can be compared to a mosaic composed of dazzling “tesserae”, obstructing an overall view. Nonnos’ Dionysiaka seems to be an excellent example. A structural, generic (Cairns’ Generic Composition) and rhetorical (based on ancient theory) analysis of single episodes from this Dionysiaka will lead to a better understanding of the “mosaic poetics” of contemporary Greek and Latin poetry.