Plays on words, letters and sounds in Latin texts.

This volume, Word, Letter, and Sound Play in Latin Texts, contains the papers delivered at the international conference held under the same title at the University of Paris Nanterre on October 14-15, 2021. They all come from recognized specialists and are presented here in chronological and thematic order. The aim was to examine word, letter, and sound plays in Latin, from the beginnings of Latin literature to the Neo-Latin texts of the Renaissance, by studying the theory, nature, practice, and function of these different word plays. However, except in special cases, comedy , humor, and parody in general were excluded from the scope of the conference.
Of course, we did not claim to exhaustively address all aspects of such a vast subject, especially in a very broad chronological definition. But we could hope to provide a significant overview, and this goal seems to have been achieved. The book, through its plural and complementary approaches, thus offers a synthesis of wordplay in Latin that did not exist until now.