Presence and the Future Tense in Horace's Odes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9370468 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel Colucciello Barber (corresponding author), Daniel Barber (0000-0002-9263-3109) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 109 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 333-361 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Classical Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0009-8353 • E-ISSN: 2327-5812 |
| Publisher | Classical Association of the Middle West and South (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/tcj.2014.0000 |
| OpenAlex | W4206427253 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 12 |
Horace is sometimes said to profess in the Odes a "poetics of presence", a philosophical or aesthetic orientation that privileges the here and now. This paper examines how such an orientation toward the present might interact with the poet's use of the future tense and especially with those future verbs that seem to postpone focal events. It is concluded that the Odes' many gestures toward the future, from simple imperatives to the postponement of entire symposia, serve to problematize presence and to dramatize, in concert with other features of the collection, the anxious feeling that time is moving too quickly
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Feeling · Geometry · Gesture · Linguistics · Literature · Ode · Orientation (vector space · Poetics · Poetry · Postponement · Present tense · Simple (philosophy · Sociology · Verb · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classical Philosophy and Thought · History · Mathematics · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |