Ethics, Identity, and Community in Later Roman Declamation

Zusatztext This sort of multidisciplinary research, that connects literature and anthropology, should be developed and enriched. ... Bernstein's book gives the scholars interested in declamation a large number of hints for new developments and insights both from rhetorical and classical heritage point of view. Informationen zum Autor Neil W. Bernstein is Associate Professor in the Department of Classics and World Religions at Ohio University. Klappentext This is the first book devoted exclusively to the Major Declamations and its reception in later European literature. Zusammenfassung This is the first book devoted exclusively to the Major Declamations and its reception in later European literature. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: Constructing a Roman Sophistopolis Part I: Law, Ethics, and Community in Sophistopolis Chapter 1: Authority Chapter 2: Verification Chapter 3: Reciprocity Chapter 4: Visuality Part II: Responding to the Major Declamations Chapter 5: Vives' "For The Stepmother" and Patarol's Antilogiae Postscript: Declamation, Controversiality, and Contemporary Pedagogy Appendix 1: Text and translation of Lorenzo Patarol, Antilogia 1, "For the Stepmother Against the Blind Son" Appendix 2: Text and Translation of the Themes of the Major Declamations Bibliography Index

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• Authors: Neil W Bernstein, Neil W. Bernstein, Neil W. (Associate Professor in the Department of Classics and World Religions Bernstein
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 26.08.2013, delayed
• EAN: 9780199964116
• ISBN: 978-0-19-996411-6
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies