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! Table of Contents MANUEL BAUMBACH
Selecting Cutting and Weaving Texts: The Poiesis of Cento-Writings ...................... 9
ROWENA FOWLER Ezra Pound's Rag-Bag: The Cantos as Cento
........................................................... 21 TIMO CHRISTIAN Homerische
Glossen und Rezeptionsniveaus in den Homerocentones ...................... 41 JULIA HEIDEKLANG
Hos Centones: Otto Brunfels' Herbarum vivae eicones (1530) and Contrafayt Krëutterbuch (1532)
......................................................................... 63 MALI SKOTHEIM
Reading Environmental Devastation through Vergil's Eclogues in 18th-Century Mexico: Don Bruno
Francisco Larrañaga's La America Socorrida (1786) ............... 89 Johanna-Charlotte Horst I
prefer not to... say it myself: On Georges Perec's Composite Work Un homme qui dort
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103 LINDA SIMONIS Cento Techniques in Pierre de Ronsard's Franciad
................................................ 115 SALLY BAUMANN LUKAS SPIELHOFER
Intertextual and Metapoetic Aspects in Ausonius s Cento nuptialis (Cent. nupt. 12-32 57-66)
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MAURICE PARUSSEL Ein Cento im intertextuellen Gewebe: Zur Schreibweise des Reisebriefes Konrads
von Querfurt
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157 MARK A. MCCUTCHEON Paratextual and Sampladelic Techniques for Committing Centonism in
Contemporary Poetry Published in Canada
......................................................... 175 SINA DELL'ANNODer Philolog redet
nicht selbst - Zur Cento-Technik Johann Georg Hamanns .... 201 MORITZ RAUCHHAUS Unity through
Intertextuality: The Portrayal of Giovanni da Procida in the Cento-Novel Aventuroso Ciciliano
(ca. 1333) ............................................... 219 MARIA TERESA GALLI Cento
Technique in Lelio Capilupi's Patchwork Poem for Cristoforo Madruzzo ... 231 EMANUELA FERRAGAMO
Morgensterns Cento: Eine Analyse des
