Joseph Pucci
Biographic Data
| ID | 5423125 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph Pucci |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph |
| FAMILY NAME | Pucci |
| SIGNATURE | PUCCI J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brown University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Medieval Crossover
Augustine articulated in the De doctrina christiana a notion of Christian reading, controlled by charity, that promotes the love of God and turns readers away from an indulgence in carnal desires. D. W. Robertson read in this articulation an Augustinian rejection of engaging secular texts on their own terms and a privileging of charitable reading writ large—an understanding that, as Barbara Newman notes, created a totalizing program of reading, s…
Catullus among the Christians
Letteratura latina medievale (Secoli VI-XV)
Originary Song, Poetic Composition, and Transgression
This paper argues for a combined reading of Odes 1.3, the propempticon for Virgil, and Odes 1.22, the Lalage ode. The arrangement of the first book of Odes places 1.3 in structural relation to 1.22; and the appearance of scelus , ‘sin’, in the penultimate verse of 1.3 and the initial line of 1.22 activates a thematic affiliation that has gone unexamined in the scholarship. I take the poet's use of scelus as my starting point, analysing in what fo…
"Valerius Flaccus' "Argonautica
The Full-Knowing Reader
Literary allusions abound in Western literature, and those who study them tend to focus on the author's intentions to demonstrate erudition, embellish meaning, or exert control over tradition. In this original and illuminating book -- the first fullscale consideration of literary allusion in any language -- Joseph Pucci contends that the key to grasping the meaning of an allusive text is in the hands of the full-knowing reader. Pucci shows how al…
"Speech and Rhetoric in Statius' "Thebaid
Roman Epic
The Eclogues of Calpurnius Siculus
Statius
Horace and Virgilian Mimesis
The "Pollex" of Ovid in Prudentius and Angilbert
The "Pollex" of Ovid in Prudentius and Angilbert
Statius
Horace and Virgilian Mimesis
The Eclogues of Calpurnius Siculus
"Speech and Rhetoric in Statius' "Thebaid
Roman Epic
The Full-Knowing Reader
Literary allusions abound in Western literature, and those who study them tend to focus on the author's intentions to demonstrate erudition, embellish meaning, or exert control over tradition. In this original and illuminating book -- the first fullscale consideration of literary allusion in any language -- Joseph Pucci contends that the key to grasping the meaning of an allusive text is in the hands of the full-knowing reader. Pucci shows how al…
"Valerius Flaccus' "Argonautica
Letteratura latina medievale (Secoli VI-XV)
Originary Song, Poetic Composition, and Transgression
This paper argues for a combined reading of Odes 1.3, the propempticon for Virgil, and Odes 1.22, the Lalage ode. The arrangement of the first book of Odes places 1.3 in structural relation to 1.22; and the appearance of scelus , ‘sin’, in the penultimate verse of 1.3 and the initial line of 1.22 activates a thematic affiliation that has gone unexamined in the scholarship. I take the poet's use of scelus as my starting point, analysing in what fo…
Catullus among the Christians
Medieval Crossover
Augustine articulated in the De doctrina christiana a notion of Christian reading, controlled by charity, that promotes the love of God and turns readers away from an indulgence in carnal desires. D. W. Robertson read in this articulation an Augustinian rejection of engaging secular texts on their own terms and a privileging of charitable reading writ large—an understanding that, as Barbara Newman notes, created a totalizing program of reading, s…
Art (12 works) · Literature (8 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · History (6 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Organic Chemistry Synthesis Methods (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Reading (process (3 works) · Chemical synthesis and alkaloids (2 works)