Writing Exile: The Discourse of Displacement in Greco-Roman Antiquity and Beyond - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9004155155 ISBN 13 : 9789004155152

Editeur : Brill, 2006

Synopsis

Exile and displacement are central topics in classical literature. Previous research has been mostly biographical and has focused on the three most prominent exiles: Cicero, Ovid, and Seneca. By shifting focus to a discourse of exile and displacement in early Greek poetry, Greek historiography, Cynicism, consolatory literature, Latin epic, Greek literature of the empire, and Medieval Latin literature, the present volume questions the notion of a distinct, psychologically conditioned 'genre' or 'mode' of exile literature. It shows how ancient and medieval authors perceive and present their exile according to pre-existent literary paradigms, style themselves or others as 'typical' exiles, and employ 'exile' as a powerful trope to express estrangement, elicit readerly sympathy, and question political power structures.

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À propos de l'auteur

Jan Felix Gaertner, D.Phil. (2002) in Classics, University of Oxford, is Assistant at the Institut für Klassische Philologie und Komparatistik, University of Leipzig. His publications include a commentary (with text and English translation) of Ovid, Epistulae ex Ponto 1 (Oxford, 2005).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Brill
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9004155155
• ISBN 13: 9789004155152
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 312
• Éditeur: Gaertner Jan Felix
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