Stephanie Ann Frampton
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1135817 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Stephanie Ann Frampton |
| PRENOMES | Stephanie Ann |
| SOBRENOME | Frampton |
| ASSINATURA | FRAMPTON S A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0631-1681 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 9 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 7 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 9 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2016 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
On the Spelling of ‘Author’
The reason for the lexical transformation of classical Latin auctor and auctoritas into Neo-Latin author and authoritas has remained obscure outside of specialist literature. This note offers a consolidated account of the matter in English. Based on a minor misreading of Priscian’s Institutiones grammaticae by glossators active at the turn of the thirteenth century, a back-formation of Latin author by analogy with Greek αὐθέντης and αὐθεντία was …
Rhetorics of Becoming
In a series of essays, Paul Ricœur and Jacques Derrida described the work of metaphor as a cognitive operation requiring readers to apprehend simultaneously the continuity and difference of tenor and vehicle: Juliet is and is not the sun; a book is and is not a chariot. In this paper, I show how the cognitive features required of a reader in thinking through metaphor are the same as those necessary to imagine literary metamorphosis, a trope that …
In the Library
This chapter argues that the natural habitat of most books is not as solitary objects of contemplation and study, but as “social animals” on bookshelves, in store windows, and in the library. In seeking out this unfinished story about the character of books, we are led to consider their roles in human relationships. Turning to one of the most intimate moments in the ancient history of reading, where, in the opening of Cicero’s Topica, the author …
Ovid and the Inscriptions
In the year 8 CE, Ovid was exiled to the Black Sea for “a song and a mistake.” This chapter explores a series of iconic poems from the Tristia in which Ovid imagines the state of exile through a variety of textual media: his own books of poetry sent back to the city and rejected from the public libraries; the lapidary inscriptions of Augustus he imagines them to encounter; and, several times over, his own funerary epitaph, formulated in explicit …
Classics and the Study of the Book
Addressing questions of scholarly background, this chapter finds common ground among the related fields of book history, bibliography, textual criticism, and the Classics, so that readers from each may approach the book on equal footing. It foregrounds the fundamental methodology of Empire of Letters —to study classical texts book historically—and outlines one of the major outcomes of such an approach: that studying the ancient book as “old media…
The Roman Poetry Book
After discussing the now famous papyrus fragment discovered in 1979 in Lower Nubia and covered with lines of poetry identified with the elegist Cornelius Gallus, this chapter focuses on reconstructing the material habitus of Latin poetry within the Roman bookroll. Reviewing programmatic passages in Ennius, Plautus, Catullus, Ovid, and especially Horace and Virgil, the chapter shows many of the ways that Roman authors made reference to writing and…
Tablets of Memory
This chapter focuses on one of the foundational images in Western epistemology: that memory is like a wax tablet. Charting the origins of the figure in the theories of mind of Plato and Aristotle through its development in the Roman practice of an oratorical ars memoriae (“art of memory”) as described by the Auctor ad Herennium , Cicero, and Quintilian, it recovers a variety of ways that writing and thinking were connected in the ancient imaginat…
Empire of Letters
Empire of Letters studies representations of texts and media in Roman authors from Lucretius to Ovid (c. 55 BCE-15 CE) in order to demonstrate how ancient writers conceived of the world, their work, and their own identities through material forms of writing. Drawing together methods of interpretation from a wide variety of fields (including Greek and Latin philology, epigraphy, papyrology, manuscript studies, literary criticism, media theory, and…
Inside Roman Libraries
Reviewed by: Inside Roman Libraries: Book Collections and Their Management in Antiquityby George W. Houston Stephanie Ann Frampton George W. Houston. Inside Roman Libraries: Book Collections and Their Management in Antiquity. Studies in the History of Greece and Rome. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. $59.95. Pp. xvi, 327. ISBN 978–1-4696–1780–0. George Houston, Emeritus Professor of Classics at Chapel Hill, has been publishi…
Empire of Letters
Empire of Letters studies representations of texts and media in Roman authors from Lucretius to Ovid (c. 55 BCE-15 CE) in order to demonstrate how ancient writers conceived of the world, their work, and their own identities through material forms of writing. Drawing together methods of interpretation from a wide variety of fields (including Greek and Latin philology, epigraphy, papyrology, manuscript studies, literary criticism, media theory, and…
Inside Roman Libraries
Reviewed by: Inside Roman Libraries: Book Collections and Their Management in Antiquityby George W. Houston Stephanie Ann Frampton George W. Houston. Inside Roman Libraries: Book Collections and Their Management in Antiquity. Studies in the History of Greece and Rome. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. $59.95. Pp. xvi, 327. ISBN 978–1-4696–1780–0. George Houston, Emeritus Professor of Classics at Chapel Hill, has been publishi…
Ovid and the Inscriptions
In the year 8 CE, Ovid was exiled to the Black Sea for “a song and a mistake.” This chapter explores a series of iconic poems from the Tristia in which Ovid imagines the state of exile through a variety of textual media: his own books of poetry sent back to the city and rejected from the public libraries; the lapidary inscriptions of Augustus he imagines them to encounter; and, several times over, his own funerary epitaph, formulated in explicit …
Classics and the Study of the Book
Addressing questions of scholarly background, this chapter finds common ground among the related fields of book history, bibliography, textual criticism, and the Classics, so that readers from each may approach the book on equal footing. It foregrounds the fundamental methodology of Empire of Letters —to study classical texts book historically—and outlines one of the major outcomes of such an approach: that studying the ancient book as “old media…
The Roman Poetry Book
After discussing the now famous papyrus fragment discovered in 1979 in Lower Nubia and covered with lines of poetry identified with the elegist Cornelius Gallus, this chapter focuses on reconstructing the material habitus of Latin poetry within the Roman bookroll. Reviewing programmatic passages in Ennius, Plautus, Catullus, Ovid, and especially Horace and Virgil, the chapter shows many of the ways that Roman authors made reference to writing and…
Tablets of Memory
This chapter focuses on one of the foundational images in Western epistemology: that memory is like a wax tablet. Charting the origins of the figure in the theories of mind of Plato and Aristotle through its development in the Roman practice of an oratorical ars memoriae (“art of memory”) as described by the Auctor ad Herennium , Cicero, and Quintilian, it recovers a variety of ways that writing and thinking were connected in the ancient imaginat…
Empire of Letters
Empire of Letters studies representations of texts and media in Roman authors from Lucretius to Ovid (c. 55 BCE-15 CE) in order to demonstrate how ancient writers conceived of the world, their work, and their own identities through material forms of writing. Drawing together methods of interpretation from a wide variety of fields (including Greek and Latin philology, epigraphy, papyrology, manuscript studies, literary criticism, media theory, and…
In the Library
This chapter argues that the natural habitat of most books is not as solitary objects of contemplation and study, but as “social animals” on bookshelves, in store windows, and in the library. In seeking out this unfinished story about the character of books, we are led to consider their roles in human relationships. Turning to one of the most intimate moments in the ancient history of reading, where, in the opening of Cicero’s Topica, the author …
Rhetorics of Becoming
In a series of essays, Paul Ricœur and Jacques Derrida described the work of metaphor as a cognitive operation requiring readers to apprehend simultaneously the continuity and difference of tenor and vehicle: Juliet is and is not the sun; a book is and is not a chariot. In this paper, I show how the cognitive features required of a reader in thinking through metaphor are the same as those necessary to imagine literary metamorphosis, a trope that …
On the Spelling of ‘Author’
The reason for the lexical transformation of classical Latin auctor and auctoritas into Neo-Latin author and authoritas has remained obscure outside of specialist literature. This note offers a consolidated account of the matter in English. Based on a minor misreading of Priscian’s Institutiones grammaticae by glossators active at the turn of the thirteenth century, a back-formation of Latin author by analogy with Greek αὐθέντης and αὐθεντία was …
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