Impoverished Aesthetics:
New Approaches to Marginality in Latin Literature
Individual Abstracts
Emilia Barbiero How to Talk to Paper About Poetry: Materiality and Aesthetic Judgment in a Catullan Diptych
Thomas Bolt The Sublime in Seneca and Statius: Aesthetics, Excess, and the Canon
Alex Dressler The Way and Its Poor: Bareness of Life from Seneca to Jerome
Basil Dufallo Couture’s The Romans of the Decadence and the Unmooring of Rome’s Decline
Erik Gunderson The aesthetic foolsgoldstandard in Petronius
Alison Keith First-Person Feminine Latin Poetry: Sulpicia’s Elegidia
Andrew McClellan Virgil’s Troilus and Metapoetry
Rebecca Moorman Beyond Utility: Paradoxes of Knowledge Acquisition in the Aeneid
Mariapia Pietropaolo The Poetics of Hunger in Metamorphoses 8
Elaine Sanderson An Unhomely Homecoming: Encounters with the Uncanny in Seneca’s Agamemnon
Kate Stevens gula est: Appropriating the aesthetics of illness in Martial’s Epigrams
James Uden Empire of Exhaustion: the Tired Subject of Latin Epic
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