Diffracting Flatness: Multiplicity and Materiality in Italo Calvino and Claudian’s Carmina minora

Paolo Felice Sacchi

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Multiplicity and Materiality in Italo Calvino and Claudian’s Carmina minora

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Pages:: 328–339

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004715097_019

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This paper investigates the late Latin poet Claudian’s aesthetics against the background of Italo Calvino’s concept of multiplicity. The first part shows how Calvino, on the basis of (but also in opposition to) contemporary literary criticism, was able to create a critical tool that synthesizes complexity and linearity, materiality and abstraction, moving beyond any binary schematism. The second and third sections look at Claudian’s ‘descriptive’ poems, in particular Carmina minora 33, 24 and 26, by drawing on ideas such as surface and grid, taken as instantiations of Calvino’s multiplicity.

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Italo Calvino and Classics

Lightness – Quickness – Multiplicity

Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements, Volume: 488

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004715097

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 19 Dec 2024

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- Classical Studies
  - Classical Tradition & Reception Studies
  - Greek & Latin Literature

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Part 1 Lightness

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Multiplicity and Materiality in Italo Calvino and Claudian’s Carmina minora

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