BAC 109
Cento-Texts in the Making:
Aesthetics and Poetics of Cento-Techniques from Homer to Zong!
Manuel Baumbach (Ed.)
Cento-texts represent an extreme case of intertextuality. In gathering
material from different sources and weaving it together they form a
patchwork, which is in constant dialogue with the literary tradition.
The different components can take on new meanings and, at the same time,
refer back to their original contexts. This interdisciplinary volume
explores different cento-techniques from Antiquity to the present day.
It focusses upon poetological reflections, which are often linked with
or even inscribed in the usage of cento-techniques, and it takes into
account varied understandings of cento-writings in the history of
reception. The contributions compare different cultural traditions and
approach cento-techniques from an aesthetical point of view. They
examine questions of authorship, authorization and fragmentarization.
They ask which metaphors or concepts are used to describe
cento-techniques (e.g. bees, weaving, hooking, bricolage), and they
discuss the poiesis of cento-texts in the Aristotelian sense of ‘being
made‘.
The arrangement of the contributions in this volume is centonic insofar
they are neither ordered chronologically nor according to specific
topics. Rather, they form a patchwork, which invites the reader to
compare different methodological approaches of dealing with cento-texts
from Homer to Zong!
Manuel Baumbach:
Selecting,
Cutting and Weaving Texts:
The Poiesis of Cento-Writings
Rowena
Fowler:
Ezra
Pound’s
Rag-Bag:
The
Cantos
as Cento
Timo
Christian:
Homerische
Glossen und Rezeptionsniveaus in den Homerocentones
Julia Heideklang: Hos Centones:
Otto Brunfels’ Herbarum vivae eicones (1530) and Contrafayt
Krëutterbuch (1532)
Mali Skotheim:
Reading Environmental Devastation through Vergil’s Eclogues in
18th Century Mexico: Don Bruno Francisco Larrañaga’s La America
Socorrida (1786)
Johanna-Charlotte Horst:
“I prefer not to... say it myself”:
On Georges Perec’s Composite Work Un homme qui dort
Linda Simonis:
Cento Techniques in Pierre de Ronsard’s Franciad
Sally Baumann, Lukas Spielhofer:
Intertextual
and Metapoetic Aspects in Ausoniusʼs Cento nuptialis (Cent.
nupt. 12-32;
57-66)
Maurice Parussel:
Ein Cento im
intertextuellen Gewebe: Zur Schreibweise des Reisebriefes Konrads von
Querfurt
Mark A. McCutcheon:
Paratextual and
“Sampladelic” Techniques for “Committing Centonism” in Contemporary
Poetry Published in Canada
Sina Dell’Anno:
„Der Philolog
redet nicht selbst“ – Zur Cento-Technik Johann Georg Hamanns
Moritz
Rauchhaus:
Unity through
Intertextuality: The Portrayal of Giovanni da Procida in the Cento-Novel
Aventuroso Ciciliano (ca. 1333)
Maria Teresa Galli:
Cento Technique in Lelio Capilupi’s Patchwork Poem for Cristoforo
Madruzzo
Emanuela Ferragamo:
Morgensterns Cento: Eine Analyse des Essays Nietzsche, der Erzieher
(1896)
Jodok Trösch:
Cento, quodlibet, or Compilation? Combinatorial Techniques of Citation
in Fischart’s Geschichtklitterung
ISBN
978-3-86821-945-6, 296 S., geb., Euro 45,- 2022