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The Door Ajar

False Closure in Greek and Roman Literature and Art

Herausgeber: Grewing, Farouk F. | Acosta-Hughes, Benjamin | Kirichenko, Alexander

Bibliothek der klassischen Altertumswissenschaften, Neue Folge, 2. Reihe, Bd. 132

2013

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Abstract

When is “closure” in fact “false closure”, the deceptive opposite of apparent conclusion or perfection? 2009 marked the twentieth anniversary of the publication of Don Fowler's seminal essay “First Thoughts on Closure: Problems and Prospects” (MD 22: 75-122), a work that contributed greatly to bringing about a broad reconsideration in Ancient literary studies of the concept of closure whether understood as an ontological feature, an aesthetic concept, an appreciative inclination on the part of a work's Audience or a psychological desire of the individual to control the “text” at hand. The present volume, ‚The Door Ajar: False Closure in Greek and Roman Literature and Art’, seeks to mark both a debt to the ongoing influence of Fowler’s work, and to frame a future discourse on false closure in particular as an artistic phenomenon.

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Contents v
Acknowledgements ix
List of Contributors xi
Abbreviations xv
List of Illustrations xvii
Introduction 1
Is this the End? 1
I. Questioning Closure 17
Francis M. Dunn: Ethical Attachments and the End of Sophocles’ Oedipus the King 17
Christian Kaesser: False Closure and Deception 29
Christopher Whitton: Trapdoors: The Falsity of Closure in Pliny’s Epistles 43
II. Time, Space, and Closure 63
Markus Asper: Minding the Gap: Aetiology and (False) Closure 63
Michèle Lowrie: Foundation and Closure 83
Victoria Rimell: (En)closure and Rupture: Roman Poetry in the Arena 103
III. Looking at Closure 129
Gloria Ferrari: History and its Margins in the Pictorial Narrative of the Nile Mosaic at Praeneste 129
David Petrain: Closing the Ring: Epic Cycles in theTabulae Iliacae and Other Roman Visual Narratives of the Trojan War 143
Michael Squire: Picturing Words and Wording Pictures: False Closure in the Pompeian Casa degli Epigrammi 169
IV. Reading False Closure 203
Ivana Petrovic: Never-Ending Stories: A Perspective on Greek Hymns 203
Jonathan Wallis: Reading False Closure in(to) Propertian Elegy 229
Regina Höschele: Sit pudor et finis: False Closure in Ancient Epigram 247
Manuel Baumbach: False Closure, TrueLies and a Never Ending Story: Romantic Aesthetics, Lucian’s Verae Historiae and a Fragmentary Ending 263
Alexander Kirichenko: Mimesis, Metamorphosis, and False Closure in Apuleius’ GoldenAss 277
V. Beyond Closure 309
Philip Hardie: Fame– the Last Word? 309
Epilogue 325
Works Cited 327
Index locorum 359