List of Figures

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. List of Figures XI
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I: Facing Unfinishedness
7. From the Authorial to the Editorial tour de force: How to Read Callimachus’ Aetia and Hecale 21
8. How to Walk Along a Pioneer’s Fragmentary Track: Theophrastus’ Meteorological Studies 41
9. Fragments of Roman Sexuality in Petronius’ Satyricon 59
10. Part II: Questioning (In)Completeness
11. The “Alexandrian End” of the Odyssey 89
12. Reconsidering Closure in Ovid’s Fasti 115
13. Statius’ Achilleid: How to Break off a carmen perpetuum 127
14. Literatura Incompleta: Borges’ Antiquity between World and Universe 143
15. Part III: Constitutive Unfinishedness
16. Sed redeo ad formulam (Off. 3.20): Completeness and Imperfection in Cicero’s De officiis 165
17. Relativizing Unfinishedness: Lucretian Textuality and Epicurean Therapy 189
18. The Fragment as a Form: A Reading of Fragments d’un discours amoureux by Barthes 211
19. Arrhythmic Historiography, Lost Letters and Broken Meanings: Fulgentius’s De aetatibus mundi et hominis 225
20. “This City Will Always Pursue You”: The Impossible End of Rutilius Namatianus’ Return 241
21. Part IV: Reading Unfinishedness
22. Finishing Iphigenia in Aulis 261
23. Seneca’s Phoenissae: In Search of an Ending 275
24. How to Read Hyginus’ Fabulae? Theories and Practices 289
25. The Rest was not Perfected: Platonic Endings and their Modern Echoes 311
26. War as a Permanent Civil War: The “Unfinished” History in Pasolini’s Petrolio 331
27. Part V: Searching for Completion
28. The Missing Conclusion to Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica 353
29. Speaking Silences: The Incompleteness of Tacitus’ Annals and Gustav Freytag’s Die verlorene Handschrift 383
30. Putting an Unfinished Novel Back into Motion: A Digital Tool to Create Possible “Second Volumes” of Bouvard et Pécuchet 405
31. List of Contributors 419
32. General Index 423
33. Index of Passages 427