Editorial Bodies - Perfection and Rejection in Ancient Rhetoric and Poetics

Though typically considered oral cultures, ancient Greece and Rome also boasted textual cultures, enabled by efforts to perfect, publish, and preserve both new and old writing. In Editorial Bodies, Michele Kennerly argues that such efforts were commonly articulated through the extended metaphor of the body.

About the author

Michele Kennerly is an assistant professor of communication arts and sciences and of classics and ancient Mediterranean studies at Pennsylvania State University. With Damien Smith Pfister, she is coeditor of Ancient Rhetorics and Digital Networks.

Summary

Though typically considered oral cultures, ancient Greece and Rome also boasted textual cultures, enabled by efforts to perfect, publish, and preserve both new and old writing. In Editorial Bodies, Michele Kennerly argues that such efforts were commonly articulated through the extended metaphor of the body.

Product details

• Authors: Michele Kennerly
• Publisher: Univ of south carolina press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2018
• EAN: 9781611179095
• ISBN: 978-1-61117-909-5
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Studies in Rhetoric/Communication; Studies in Rhetoric/Communicat; Studies in Rhetoric/Communicat; Studies in Rhetoric/Communication; Studies in Rhetoric & Communic
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics