Erik Gunderson

Declamation, Paternity, and Roman Identity

Authority and the Rhetorical Self

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Radical re-evaluation of the genre of declamation and its social and psychic import.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 639g
• ISBN-13: 9780521820059
• ISBN-10: 0521820057
• Artikelnr.: 29338741

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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.