Absent Presence: pater Ennius in Renaissance Europe

Goldschmidt, Nora

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“…In an article on the Renaissance reception of Ennius, who likewise survives in scant fragmentary form, Nora Goldschmidt recounts a few cases involving scholars and writers who exploited his 'textual absence' by producing creative forgeries. 109 As she discusses, Ennius' absence in a sense invites invention and imagination, and this creativity is indeed what we can see with Henríquez Ureña's El Nacimiento. In a play that attempts to copy an absent text which does not exist, precisely through imitation of the traces of texts that do survive, Henríquez Ureña may be also seen as posing various important questions about the afterlife of classical texts and particularly whether they can be reconstructed in modernity.…”

Section: Restoring Absence: Phrynicus Tragicus and El Nacimiento De D...mentioning

confidence: 92%

The Caribbean Socrates Pedro Henríquez Ureña and The Mexican Ateneo De La Juventud

Andújar

2019

Classics in Extremis : The Edges of Classical Reception

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1946) is typically known for his efforts in promoting a pan-Hispanic American cultural and literary identity. 1 Less known, however, is his role in re-introducing ancient Greek literature and thought across a region in which the Graeco-Roman classics were generally part of a forgotten colonial past. 2 The Dominican intellectual was a leading figure not only in the most prominent intellectual circles in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Mexico, 3 but also in Argentina, where he spent last twenty years of his life teaching philology and literature at the University in La Plata, sharing a deep friendship with the young Jorge Luis Borges. 4 Though he repeatedly invoked Hellenic thought and literature in all these contexts for various ideological and political ends, 5 this chapter examines both his earliest and most intimate encounter with the ancient Greek world: the philhellenic Classics in Extremis, Chapter 8, 2

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Section: Restoring Absence: Phrynicus Tragicus and El Nacimiento De D...mentioning

confidence: 92%