TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Contributors INTRODUCTION: NOTES TOWARDS A POETICS OF LATE ANTIQUE LITERATURE by JaÅ> Elsner (University of Oxford) and Jes'us Hern'andez Lobato (University of Salamanca) 1. THE EXPLOSION OF FORM: LATE ANTIQUE EXPERIMENTALISM 1. Michael Squire (King's College London): "POP Art: The Optical Poetics of Publilius Optatianus Porfyrius" 2. Franca Ela Consolino (University of L'Aquilla): "Polymetry in Late Latin Poems: Some Observations on its Meaning and Functions" 3. Isabella Gualandri (University of Milan): "Words Pregnant with Meaning: the Power of Single Words in Late Latin Literature" 2. LATE ANTIQUE INTERTEXTUALITY 4. Helen Kaufmann (University of Oxford): "Intertextuality in Late Latin Poetry" 5. Ja? Elsner (University of Oxford): "Caught in the Image: The Narcissus Cento and Late Latin Poetics" 3.

PROGRAMMATIC REFLECTIONS: A METALITERARY TWIST 6. Marco Formisano (University of Ghent): "Displacing Tradition: A New-Allegorical Reading of Ausonius, Claudian and Rutilius Namatianus" 7. Stephen Harrison (University of Oxford): "Metapoetics in the Prefaces of Claudian's De Raptu Proserpinae" 8. Scott McGill (Rice University): "Rewriting Ausonius" 9. Jes'us Hern'andez Lobato (University of Salamanca): "To Speak or Not to Speak: The Birth of a 'Poetics of Silence' in Late Antique Literature" 4. LITERATURE AND POWER 10. Roger Rees (University of St Andrews): "The Poetics of Latin Prose Praise and the Fourth Century Curve" 11. Catherine Ware (University College Cork): "The Lies the Poets Tell: Poetry in Prose Panegyrics" 5.

A NEW LITERARY SPACE: THE CHALLENGES OF CHRISTIAN POETRY 12. Michael Roberts (Wesleyan University): "Lactantius' Phoenix and Late Latin Poetics" 13. Marc Mastrangelo (Dickinson College): "Early Christian Response to Platonist Poetics: Boethius, Prudentius, and the Poeta Theologus" 14. Gillian Clark (University of Bristol): "In Praise of the Wax Candle: Augustine the Poet and Late Latin Literature" Bibliography Index.