The Line and the Circle: Comparative Perspectives in Ancient Poetic Traditions

Laura Massetti
Sep 19
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Updated: Sep 24

In-person Conference

University of Naples “L'Orientale”, Palazzo Du Mesnil 62, Naples

November 3–4

The aim of the conference is to bring together scholars who have an interest in ancient languages and cultures (both Indo-European and non-Indo-European) in order to generate an interdisciplinary dialogue on different aspects of poetics and performance. Topics of the conference are:

Stylistics and metapoetic metaphors;
Stylistics and/or comparative stylistics: description and comparison of structures of poems, cognitive approaches to stylistics, ancient music and stylistics;
The relationship between ‘literary’ genres and the structures of poems;
Uses of iconicity;
Aspects of intervisuality between poetics and performance;
The interplay between the phraseology, lexicon (including etymology) and structures of poems;
Correlations between material culture and poetic structures, e.g. figurative art and structures of ancient poems.