Michele Lowrie

Writing, Performance, and Authority in Augustan Rome

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Produktbeschreibung

An exploration of the relationship between poetry, song, and authority in Augustan Rome. Michele Lowrie argues that the medium of writing, as opposed to song, could offer an escape from current social and political demands by shifting the focus toward the readership of posterity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 166mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 818g
• ISBN-13: 9780199545674
• ISBN-10: 0199545677
• Artikelnr.: 27035322

Autorenporträt

Michele Lowrie is Professor of Classics at the University of Chicago.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Arma uirumque cano
2: Some Background
I. Writing, Performance, and Performativity
3: The Performance of Horatian Lyric: The Limits of Reference
4: Horatian Lyric and Metaphorical Truths
5: At the Limits of Performativity: The Carmen Saeculare
6: Monument and Festival in Vergil
7: Elegy: Overcoming Inability
II. Performance and the Augustan Literary Epistle
8: Love and Semiotics
9: Beyond Performance Envy: Horace, Epistles 2.1
10: De- and Re-Contextualization
11: Ovid's Triumphs in Exile: Representation and Power
III. Writing, Performance, and Politics
12: Auctoritas and Representation: Augustus' Res gestae
13: Occasion and Monument: The Ara Pacis
IV. Reading and the Law
14: Literature and the Law
15: Inscription and Testimony: Propertius 4.11
16: The Pragmatics of Literature: Ovid