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Autore: | Lowrie Michèle |
Titolo: | Writing, performance, and authority in Augustan Rome [[electronic resource] /] / Michèle Lowrie |
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 |
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