LEADER 03199nam 2200577 450 001 9910810007203321 005 20200923020339.0 010 $a3-11-051894-5 010 $a3-11-051974-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110519747 035 $a(CKB)4340000000203601 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5049492 035 $a(DE-B1597)473578 035 $a(OCoLC)1004868378 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110519747 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5049492 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11443140 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL1036817 035 $a(OCoLC)1004550639 035 $a(PPN)219911673 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000203601 100 $a20171017h20172017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aPlant of a strange vine $eoratio corrupta and the poetics of senecan tragedy /$fRobert John Sklena?r 210 1$aBerlin, [Germany] ;$aBoston, [Massachusetts] :$cDe Gruyter,$d2017. 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (108 pages) 225 1 $aBeitra?ge zur Altertumskunde,$x1616-0452 ;$vBand 363 311 $a3-11-051772-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tForeword -- $tContents -- $tChapter One. Letter 114 and the Poetics of Decadence -- $tChapter Two. A Senecan Reading of Seneca?s Oedipus, Part I -- $tChapter Three. A Senecan Reading of Seneca?s Oedipus, Part II -- $tChapter Four. Seneca and Neronian Aesthetics -- $tBibliography -- $tSubject index 330 $aThis book studies Seneca's poetic drama from a novel point of view. Whereas most criticism of Seneca's dramas has tended to focus on their relationship to Stoicism, I approach them from the perspective of Seneca's own theory of literary decadence, which he sets forth in the 114th of his letters to Lucilius. His theory can be summed up as follows: the various forms of stylistic corruption are the result of a straining for effect, which itself reflects a taste for the extreme. A writer or speaker's stylistic vices thus mirror the vices of his character; they also reflect the vices of the time and place in which he lives, since every user of language is conditioned by his environment. What is especially striking about Seneca's discussion is that a number of the vices he lists ? hyperbole, disruption of natural word order, excessive metaphor ? are notable features of the poetic style of his own dramas. I argue for a rehabilitation of the 'decadent' style of Seneca's tragedies: in Seneca's hands, this style is a precise diagnostic tool for revealing the self-destructive irrationality that governs not only the individual, but also his society and the entire universe. 410 0$aBeitra?ge zur Altertumskunde ;$vBand 363. 606 $aStoics$xHistory 610 $aSilver Latin. 610 $adecadence. 610 $astoicism. 615 0$aStoics$xHistory. 676 $a188 700 $aSklena?r$b Robert John$0759764 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910810007203321 996 $aPlant of a strange vine$91536244 997 $aUNINA