Satire and the Threat of Speech: Horace's Satires, Book 1
In his first book of Satires, written in the late, violent days of the Roman republic, Horace exposes satiric speech as a tool of power and domination. Using critical theories from classics, speech act theory, and others, Catherine Schlegel argues that Horace's acute poetic observation of hostile speech provides insights into the operations of verbal control that are relevant to his time and to ours. She demonstrates that though Horace is forced by his political circumstances to develop a new, unthreatening style of satire, his poems contain a challenge to our most profound habits of violence, hierarchy, and domination. Focusing on the relati…
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Weitere Autoren: Boyer, Paul S. (Solist)
- ISBN: 978-0-299-20950-6
- EAN: 9780299209506
- Produktnummer: 1793961
- Verlag: Univ Of Wisconsin Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 186 S.
- Masse: H23.7 cm x B16.1 cm x D1.8 cm 390 g
- Gewicht: 390
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