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Declamation, Paternity, and Roman Identity
Authority and the Rhetorical Self
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Artikel-Nr:
9780521036528
Veröffentl:
2007
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
23.02.2007
Seiten:
300
Autor:
Erik Gunderson
Gewicht:
490 g
Format:
229x152x18 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Erik Gunderson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Greek and Latin at the Ohio State University. He is the author of Staging Masculinity: The Rhetoric of Performance in the Roman World (2000; ISBN 0472111396).
This book explores the much maligned and misunderstood genre of declamation. Instead of a bastard rhetoric, declamation should be seen as a venue within which the rhetoric of the legitimate self is constructed. These fictions of the self are uncannily real, and these stagey dramas are in fact rehearsals for the serious play of Roman identity. Critics of declamation find themselves recapitulating the very logic of the genre they are refusing. When declamation is read in the light of the contemporary theory of the subject a wholly different picture emerges: this is a canny game played with and within the rhetoric of the self. This book makes broad claims for what is often seen as a narrow topic. An appendix includes a fresh translation and brief discussion of a sample of surviving examples of declamation.
Preface: Acheron; Introduction: a praise of folly; Part I. Where Ego Was ...: 1. Recalling declamation; 2. Fathers and sons; bodies and places; 3. Living declamation; 4. Raving among the insane; Part II. Let Id Be: 5. An Cimbrice loquendum sit: speaking and unspeaking the language of homosexual desire; 6. Paterni nominis religio; By way of conclusion; Appendix 1: further reading; Appendix 2: sample declamations; List of references; Index locorum; General index.