Declamation, Paternity, and Roman Identity

Declamation, Paternity, and Roman Identity
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 299
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ISBN-10 : 9781139436663
ISBN-13 : 113943666X
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Book Synopsis Declamation, Paternity, and Roman Identity by : Erik Gunderson

Download or read book Declamation, Paternity, and Roman Identity written by Erik Gunderson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-06-19 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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