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Dr Bryan Brazeau, Senior Teaching Fellow in Liberal Arts, has recently published an article in Classical Receptions Journal entitled 鈥溾�楧efying Gravity鈥�: Prose Epic and Heroic Style in Lucrezia Marinella鈥檚 1602 Vita di Maria Vergine.鈥�

"The article examines Lucrezia Marinella鈥檚 literary-theoretical declaration at the beginning of the 1602 Vita di Maria Vergine by contextualizing her claims within contemporary debates on whether epic, particularly Christian epic, can be written in a style of high prose. It demonstrates that although Marinella seems to rely more heavily on Aristotle鈥檚 Rhetoric, her choices in writing this epic in a high prose style were greatly influenced by the Poetics and contemporary discussions surrounding the text (along with a misunderstanding of the text itself). The essay also contains (as an appendix) the first English-language translation of Marinella鈥檚 literary theoretical preface, 鈥楾o the Readers鈥�."

The article forms part of a edited by Vladimir Brljak (Durham) and Micha Lazarus (Warburg) gathering "path-breaking new work on the literary criticism of sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Europe and Latin America, a domain of literary and intellectual history which represents one of the richest and most enduring strains of the classical heritage in this period". The publication emerges from the collaborative , of which Bryan is a member of the editorial board.