Les jeux sur les mots, les lettres et les sons dans les textes latins

This volume Les jeux sur les mots, les lettres et les sons dans les textes latins contains the papers delivered at the international symposium held, under the same title, at the University of Paris Nanterre on October 14–15, 2021. They are all by recognized specialists and are presented here in chronological and thematic order. We have sought to focus on plays on words, letters and sounds in Latin, from the beginnings of Latin literature to the neo-Latin texts of the Renaissance, by studying at the same time the theory, nature, practice and function of these different word games. However, except in special cases, comedy, humor and parody in general were excluded from the scope of the colloquium.

Of course, we did not claim to exhaustively examine all aspects of such a vast subject, especially in a very broad chronological definition. But we could hope to give a significant panorama, and this goal seems to us to have been achieved. The book, through its multiple and complementary approaches, thus offers a synthesis on Latin puns that did not exist until now.