Slavery and the Roman Literary Imagination

Klappentext This book deals with the ways in which the Roman literary imagination explored the phenomenon of slavery. Zusammenfassung This book deals with the ways in which the Roman literary imagination explored the phenomenon of slavery. It discusses the ideological relation of Roman literature to the institution of slavery! and the ways in which slavery provided a metaphor for other relationships and experiences! and in particular for literature itself. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The other self: proximity and symbiosis; 2. Punishment: license, (self-) control and fantasy; 3. Slaves between the free; 4. Slavery and the continuum of (servile) relationships; 5. Enslavement and metamorphosis; Epilogue.

Product details

• Authors: William Fitzgerald
• Assisted by: D. C. Feeney (Editor), Stephen Hinds (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.03.2000
• EAN: 9780521779692
• ISBN: 978-0-521-77969-2
• No. of pages: 142
• Series: Roman Literature and Its Conte
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies