Complex Inferiorities The Poetics of the Weaker Voice in Latin Literature
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Sebastian Matzner is Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature at King's College London. His research focuses on interactions between ancient and modern literature and thought, especially in the fields of poetics and rhetoric, literary and critical theory, history of sexualities, LGBTQ studies, and traditions of classicism. He has published several articles and book chapters in these fields and is the author of Rethinking Metonymy: Literary Theory and Poetic Practice from Pindar to Jakobson (OUP, 2016) as well as co-editor of a forthcoming OUP volume entitled Metalepsis: Ancient Texts, New Perspectives (with Gail Trimble). Stephen Harrison is Professor of Latin Literature at the University of Oxford, and Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Corpus Christi College. His main research and teaching interests are in Latin literature and its reception. He has written monographs on Vergil, Horace, and Apuleius, and has edited, co-edited, or co-authored more than twenty books on Vergil, Horace, the Roman novel, Classics and literary theory, and Latin literature in general, as well as on the reception of classical literature. His recent publications include Victorian Horace: Classics and Class (Bloomsbury, 2017) and a commentary on Horace Odes 2 (CUP, 2017).[T]his volume represents a series of essays that are closely connected by the theme, but also widely diverse. It has a lot to offer in terms of ideas and approaches that might be applied beyond the texts directly considered within
Kathleen Burt, The Classical Journal 116:4 (2021)
Complex Inferiorities advances our knowledge of the interconnectedness of distinct types of hierarchies in Roman society, and of the manipulation of such hierarchies by Roman writers ... a welcome and forward-thinking volume.
Isaia Crosson, Classical World 113:4 (2020)
consistently thoughtful and well argued, offering a kaleidoscopic examination of the hierarchies alternately reinforced and undermined by Latin authors from Plautus to late antiquity. ... Is there something oppressive, rather than subversive or empowering, in an elite poet impersonating a subaltern voice? Answers will vary, and this illuminating book explores a number of different possibilities.
James Uden, American Journal of Philology 141:3 (2020)
The premise of need for such a collection is undeniable – the theme is of significant depth and interest, and one that has suffered without the attention of sustained treatment. ... Altogether, the cumulative illumination of these 'complex inferiorities' has provided a new, sharp critical perspective with which to consider Latin literature.
Celia Campbell, The Classical Review 70:1 (2020)
This is a surprising and fascinating book ... the book is admirably proof-read and produced.
John Godwin, Classics for All