IN BED WITH VIRGIL: AUSONIUS’WEDDING CENTOAND ITS RECEPTION
Sigrid Schottenius Cullhed
Judging from its history of effect, the Wedding Cento produced by fourth-century poet Ausonius is in fact not a poem about wedding at all. It work ethics textual recycling; impact political power and patronage on literary production; smut, or rather where responsibility lies when reader sees smut none was intended. also sexual violence, but this aspect text has been largely missing scholarly reception. Such an absence perhaps to be expected. Sexual assault notoriously under-reported offence, invisibility tends extend into realm artistic representation treatment. During last couple decades, for instance, film scholars have addressed need re-read cinematic portrayals rape order unearth it ‘metaphor euphemism, naturalized plot device logical consequence…restoring literal, body: restoring that is, violence – physical, violation’. This issue must here, first few words most prominent trends
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