Comporre il mondo: l’Inno a Delo di Callimaco e l’estetica alessandrina dopo Wimmel

Name: Comporre il mondo: l’Inno a Delo di Callimaco e l’estetica alessandrina dopo Wimmel
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AEVUM ANTIQUUM

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Comporre il mondo: l’Inno a Delo di Callimaco e l’estetica alessandrina dopo Wimmel

Composing worlds: Callimachus’ Hymn to Delos and Alexandrian aesthetics after Wimmel

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Massimo Giuseppetti

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Vita e Pensiero

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12-2023

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10.26350/020747_000108

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1121-8932 (stampa) | 1827-7861 (digitale)

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The first part of the article foregrounds Walter Wimmel’s impact on Callimachean scholarship by focusing on the key concept of ‘short form’ (Kleinform). In Wimmel’s view this novel concept explains Callimachus’ success among Augustan poets; it is also critical for understanding how the literary experiments carried out by Alexandrian poets are a reaction to the crisis of poetic language already begun in the classical age. Among recent discussions of Wimmel’s impact on Hellenistic aesthetics, J.I. Porter’s critique of the ‘ideology of λεπτότης’ is both radical and thought-provoking. The second part of the article discusses some of the ideas advanced by Porter and develops them within the framework of an anthropology of literature that foregrounds how poetic texts enact representations of the world as total space. Callimachus’ Hymn to Delos is a particularly remarkable case study in that it offers multiple instances of a poetics of world composition.

Comporre il mondo: l’Inno a Delo di Callimaco e l’estetica alessandrina dopo Wimmel by Massimo Giuseppetti is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0