Text, Image, and Music : Performative Aspects of Optatian´s Visual Poetry
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| Year of publication | 2023 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Hermes. Zeitschrift für Klassische Philologie |
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| Citation | |
| Web | https://biblioscout.net/journal/hermes |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.25162/Hermes-2023-0036 |
| Keywords | Optatian; visual poetry; performance; performativity; spectacularity; multi-mediality |
| Description | The paper enquires about the performative qualities of Optatian’s visual poems and contextualizes these experimental texts within the trends of late-antique aesthetics. Adopting a performative approach, the author sheds new light on the metatexts embedded in the majority of Optatian’s carmina as well as the meta-discursive significance of several individual pieces of his collection (Carm. 3 and 25, in particular). The performative features traceable in the corpus include: a) notions of multi-mediality and spectacularity together with the physical materiality and dynamics of language, all constantly advertised by the poet; b) the envisaged active role of readers as co-performers of these intricate texts; and c) the inherent performative power of particular intextual images. |
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