Naslov
Gender Constructing in Aristaenetus' Intertextual Borrowings from Comedy

Autori
Hajdarević, Sabira

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
Sixth International Conference on Ancient Novel. The Ancinet Novel: Roads Less Travelled, Abstract list / - Ghent : Ghent University, 2022, 59-59

Skup
6th International Conference on Ancient Novel: Roads Less Travelled (ICAN VI)

Mjesto i datum
Gent, Belgija, 21.09.2022. - 24.09.2022

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Aristaenetus ; gender construction ; intertextuality ; ancient novel

Sažetak
Aristaenetus’ epistolary collection entitled Erotic Letters (cca 500 A.D.) is a curious intertextual patchwork of passages taken from previous literary masterpieces. Borrowings from novels are both numerous and various: Aristaenetus used some of genre’s typical motifs, and one recognizes protagonists’ names as well as paraphrases, even verbatim quotations of Achilles Tatius’, Xenophon’s, Longo’s, Chariton’s or Heliodorus’ passages. My meticulous research of the extant novels and Aristaenetus’ Letters revealed several new probable parallels, i.e. previously undiscovered intertextual borrowings, to be added among those already traced by the scholars who dealt with Aristaenetus’ intertextuality (e.g. Mazal 1971, Arnott 1972 and 1982, Gallé Cejudo 1999, Drago 2007, Tagliabue 2013 etc.). The final goal of my paper is to analyse gender constructing in novel-inspired Aristaenetus’ letters and in the source-texts themselves, in order to compare them. I am interested in finding out how often does Aristaenetus intervene into his models’ gender roles by challenging or inverting them. Several letters contain names taken from novels or clearly alluding to these, with the additional alteration of the protagonist’s sex (e.g. 1.3, 1.12, 1.13). Further analysis of the letters containing imitatio cum variatione of this kind will be conducted ; I plan to investigate if there is any gender-related “origin” for these intertextual gender reversals in the very novel the borrowings derive from (e.g. somewhat “effeminate” male hero or female’s unusual assertiveness). If these gender reversals prove to be connected to the plot of Aristaenetus’ letter only, they can be considered his own (and significant) literary contribution. In that case I find it important to examine the purpose and the literary advantage of Aristaenetus’ interventions into behaviour patterns of others authors’ protagonists. The paper relies on relevant theoretical scholarship on intertextuality (esp. Doulamis, K. (ed.) (2011): Echoing Narratives: Studies of Intertextuality in Greek and Roman Prose Fiction ; Harrison, S. J., Frangoulidis, S., Papanghelis, T. (eds.) (2018): Intratextuality and Latin Literature and Paschalis, M. ( 2007): “The Greek and the Latin Alexander Romance: Comparative Readings” in: The Greek and the Roman Novel: Parallel Readings, Paschalis, M. et al. (eds.)) and on gender, esp. in ancient novel (Futre Pinheiro, M., Skinner, M., Zeitlin, F. (eds.) (2012): Narrating Desire: Eros, Sex, and Gender in the Ancient Novel ; Haynes, K. (2003): Fashioning the Feminine in the Greek Novel ; Jones, M. (2012): Playing the Man: Performing Masculinities in the Ancient Greek Novel ; Morales, H. (2002): “Gender and Identity in Musaeus’ Hero and Leander” in: Constructing Identities in Late Antiquity, Miles, R. (ed) ; Morales, H. (2005): “Metaphor, Gender and the Ancient Greek Novel” in: Metaphor and the Ancient Novel, Harrison, S. J. et al. (eds.) ; Morales, H. (2008): “The history of sexuality” in: (b-ok), Whitmarsh, T. (ed.) etc.). Regarding the analysis of intertextual gender reversals, the paper will follow the methodology used in a similar research, conducted on Tibullus’ poems (Damer, E. Z. (2014): “Gender Reversals and Intertextuality in Tibullus”, Classical World 107, no. 4, 493-514).

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija, Književnost, Rodni studiji

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