Texts and Violence in the Roman World (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Gale, Monica R.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From the bites and scratches of lovers and the threat of flogging that hangs over the comic slave, to murder, rape, dismemberment, and crucifixion, violence is everywhere in Latin literature. The contributors to this volume explore the manifold ways in which violence is constructed and represented in Latin poetry and prose from Plautus to Prudentius, examining the interrelations between violence, language, power, and gender, and the narrative, rhetorical, and ideological functions of such depictions across the generic spectrum. How does violence contribute to the pleasure of the text? Do depictions of violence always reinforce status-hierarchies, or can they provoke a reassessment of normative value-systems? Is the reader necessarily complicit with authorial constructions of violence? These are pressing questions both for ancient literature and for film and other modern media, and this volume will be of interest to scholars and students of cultural studies as well as of the ancient world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108624176
• Artikelnr.: 53316482

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - reading Roman violence Monica R. Gale and J. H. D.
Scourfield; 1. Comic violence and the citizen body David Konstan and Shilpa
Raval; 2. Contemplating violence: Lucretius' 'De rerum natura' Monica R.
Gale; 3. Discipline and punish - Horatian satire and the formation of the
self Paul Allen Miller; 4. Make war not love: militia amoris and domestic
violence in Roman elegy Donncha O'Rourke; 5. Violence and resistance in
Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' Carole E. Newlands; 6. Tales of the unexpurgated
(Cert PG) - Seneca's Audionasties (Controversiae 2.5, 10.4) John Henderson;
7. Dismemberment and the critics - Seneca's 'Phaedra' Duncan F. Kennedy; 8.
Violence and alienation in Lucan's 'Pharsalia' - the case of Caesar
Efrossini Spentzou; 9. Tacitus and the language of violence Bruce J.
Gibson; 10. Cruel narrative: Apuleius' 'Golden Ass' William Fitzgerald; 11.
Violence and the Christian heroine - two narratives of desire J. H. D.
Scourfield.