Writing, performance, and authority in Augustan Rome [[electronic resource] /] / Michèle Lowrie

• Autore: Lowrie Michèle
• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (443 p.)
• Disciplina: 871.0109
• Soggetto topico: Latin poetry - History and criticism; Performance art - Rome
• Soggetto geografico: Rome History Augustus, 30 B.C.-14 A.D
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; 1. Arma uirumque cano; 2. Some Background; PART I: WRITING, PERFORMANCE, AND PERFORMATIVITY; PART II: PERFORMANCE AND THE AUGUSTAN LITERARY EPISTLE; PART III: WRITING, PERFORMANCE, AND POLITICS; PART IV: READING AND THE LAW; Abbreviations; References; Index locorum; Subject Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In Writing, Performance, and Authority in Augustan Rome Michele Lowrie examines how the Romans conceived of their poetic media. Song has links to the divine through prophecy, while writing offers a more quotidian, but also more realistic way of presenting what a poet does. In a culture of highly polished book production where recitation was the fashion, to claim to sing or to write was one means of self-definition. Lowrie assesses the stakes of poetic claims to one mediumor another. Generic definition is an important factor. Epic and lyric have traditional associations with song, while the lit
• Titolo autorizzato: Writing, performance, and authority in Augustan Rome
• ISBN: 0-19-160933-1; 1-282-38394-9; 9786612383946; 0-19-157169-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996210088503316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno