Declamation, Paternity, and Roman Identity: Authority and the Rhetorical Self
Declamation was a staple of education and cultured literary life in the Roman world over many centuries. This book offers a radical re-evaluation of the genre, its social importance, and its role in the history of the Western self. Ironically, this genre obsessed with "growing up" has been rejected by its own posterity. Erik Gunderson explores the social and psychic dynamics of this refusal within the ancient world as well as beyond. The book is of interest to specialists in classics, rhetoric, queer studies, and psychoanalytic literary criticism.
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Declamation, Paternity, and Roman Identity: Authority and the Rhetorical Self
Declamation was a staple of education and cultured literary life in the Roman world over many centuries. This book offers a radical re-evaluation of the genre, its social importance, and its role in the history of the Western self. Ironically, this genre obsessed with "growing up" has been rejected by its own posterity. Erik Gunderson explores the social and psychic dynamics of this refusal within the ancient world as well as beyond. The book is of interest to specialists in classics, rhetoric, queer studies, and psychoanalytic literary criticism.
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Declamation, Paternity, and Roman Identity: Authority and the Rhetorical Self

Declamation, Paternity, and Roman Identity: Authority and the Rhetorical Self

by Erik Gunderson
Declamation, Paternity, and Roman Identity: Authority and the Rhetorical Self

Declamation, Paternity, and Roman Identity: Authority and the Rhetorical Self

by Erik Gunderson

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Overview

Declamation was a staple of education and cultured literary life in the Roman world over many centuries. This book offers a radical re-evaluation of the genre, its social importance, and its role in the history of the Western self. Ironically, this genre obsessed with "growing up" has been rejected by its own posterity. Erik Gunderson explores the social and psychic dynamics of this refusal within the ancient world as well as beyond. The book is of interest to specialists in classics, rhetoric, queer studies, and psychoanalytic literary criticism.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521036528
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 05/14/2007
Edition description: Reissue
Pages: 300
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Erik Gunderson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Greek and Latin at the Ohio State University. He is the author of Staging Masculinity: The Rhetoric of Performance in the Roman World (2000; ISBN 0472111396).

Table of Contents

Preface: Acheron; Introduction: a praise of folly; Part I. Where Ego Was …: 1. Recalling declamation; 2. Fathers and sons; bodies and places; 3. Living declamation; 4. Raving among the insane; Part II. Let Id Be: 5. An Cimbrice loquendum sit: speaking and unspeaking the language of homosexual desire; 6. Paterni nominis religio; By way of conclusion; Appendix 1: further reading; Appendix 2: sample declamations; List of references; Index locorum; General index.
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