Sebastian Matzner
Biographic Data
| ID | 824966 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sebastian Matzner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sebastian |
| FAMILY NAME | Matzner |
| SIGNATURE | MATZNER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Association of Comparative Study of World Literature |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8453-9948 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Desires of Elagabalus
The third-century Roman emperor Elagabalus has enjoyed a remarkable surge in queer interest in recent years. The 2020s so far have seen Elagabalus featuring in high-profile publications in queer classical scholarship, in a new biography for general readers, in educational resources for teaching LGBTQ+ topics at school, in an extensive stream of creative, social media, and online public history content, and even in a nation-wide public controversy…
By Way of Introduction Back to the Future?
This chapter offers a succinct account of metalepsis in its modern (re-)conceptualization, largely following Genette, both to set the scene for the subsequent chapters and to interrogate the state of modern theorization from a classical perspective. While Genette’s intervention has arguably given the concept a more cohesive outlook than it ever had in its long (if now largely obliterated) history, might current debates have something to gain from…
Josefine Kitzbichler, Ulrike C. A. Ste-phan (Hrsgg.)
Metalepsis
Complex Inferiorities
Complex Inferiorities
The deliberate adoption of a 'weaker' voice by a speaker not obliged to do so is a widespread phenomenon in Latin literature. This volume traces this strategy across a range of genres, periods, and authors, exploring how it establishes, perpetuates, and challenges hierarchies and values in very different literary and cultural-political contexts
From Uranians to Homosexuals
Journal Article From Uranians to Homosexuals: Philhellenism, Greek Homoeroticism and Gay Emancipation in Germany 1835–1915 Get access Sebastian Matzner Sebastian Matzner * *Correspondence to Sebastian Matzner, Comparative Literature Programme, Department of Classics, King’s College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Classical Receptions Journal,…
Haunted by Paradise Lost
The sudden emergence of the modern concept of 'childhood' has made critics speak of the 'discovery' of childhood around 1800. Interestingly, the discursive emergence of childhood coincides with a considerable turn in the tradition of melancholy writing as the eighteenth-century discourse on melancholy begins to distance itself from the traditional framework of humoral pathology under the growing in fluence of empirical psychology and the movement…
Complex Inferiorities
The deliberate adoption of a 'weaker' voice by a speaker not obliged to do so is a widespread phenomenon in Latin literature. This volume traces this strategy across a range of genres, periods, and authors, exploring how it establishes, perpetuates, and challenges hierarchies and values in very different literary and cultural-political contexts
Haunted by Paradise Lost
The sudden emergence of the modern concept of 'childhood' has made critics speak of the 'discovery' of childhood around 1800. Interestingly, the discursive emergence of childhood coincides with a considerable turn in the tradition of melancholy writing as the eighteenth-century discourse on melancholy begins to distance itself from the traditional framework of humoral pathology under the growing in fluence of empirical psychology and the movement…
From Uranians to Homosexuals
Journal Article From Uranians to Homosexuals: Philhellenism, Greek Homoeroticism and Gay Emancipation in Germany 1835–1915 Get access Sebastian Matzner Sebastian Matzner * *Correspondence to Sebastian Matzner, Comparative Literature Programme, Department of Classics, King’s College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Classical Receptions Journal,…
Haunted by Paradise Lost
The sudden emergence of the modern concept of 'childhood' has made critics speak of the 'discovery' of childhood around 1800. Interestingly, the discursive emergence of childhood coincides with a considerable turn in the tradition of melancholy writing as the eighteenth-century discourse on melancholy begins to distance itself from the traditional framework of humoral pathology under the growing in fluence of empirical psychology and the movement…
From Uranians to Homosexuals
Journal Article From Uranians to Homosexuals: Philhellenism, Greek Homoeroticism and Gay Emancipation in Germany 1835–1915 Get access Sebastian Matzner Sebastian Matzner * *Correspondence to Sebastian Matzner, Comparative Literature Programme, Department of Classics, King’s College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Classical Receptions Journal,…
Complex Inferiorities
Complex Inferiorities
The deliberate adoption of a 'weaker' voice by a speaker not obliged to do so is a widespread phenomenon in Latin literature. This volume traces this strategy across a range of genres, periods, and authors, exploring how it establishes, perpetuates, and challenges hierarchies and values in very different literary and cultural-political contexts
By Way of Introduction Back to the Future?
This chapter offers a succinct account of metalepsis in its modern (re-)conceptualization, largely following Genette, both to set the scene for the subsequent chapters and to interrogate the state of modern theorization from a classical perspective. While Genette’s intervention has arguably given the concept a more cohesive outlook than it ever had in its long (if now largely obliterated) history, might current debates have something to gain from…
Josefine Kitzbichler, Ulrike C. A. Ste-phan (Hrsgg.)
Metalepsis
The Desires of Elagabalus
The third-century Roman emperor Elagabalus has enjoyed a remarkable surge in queer interest in recent years. The 2020s so far have seen Elagabalus featuring in high-profile publications in queer classical scholarship, in a new biography for general readers, in educational resources for teaching LGBTQ+ topics at school, in an extensive stream of creative, social media, and online public history content, and even in a nation-wide public controversy…
Art (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)