Texts and violence in the Roman world / edited by Monica R. Gale, J.H.D. Scourfield.
2018
PA6029.V5
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Title
Texts and violence in the Roman world / edited by Monica R. Gale, J.H.D. Scourfield.
ISBN
9781108609456 (electronic bk.)
1108609457 (electronic bk.)
9781139225304
1139225308
1107027144
9781107027145
1108609457 (electronic bk.)
9781139225304
1139225308
1107027144
9781107027145
Published
Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, [2018]
Copyright
©2018
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xvi, 384 pages)
Call Number
PA6029.V5
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1026492233
Summary
From the bites and scratches of lovers and the threat of flogging that hangs over the comic slave, to murder, rape, dismemberment, and crucifixion, violence is everywhere in Latin literature. The contributors to this volume explore the manifold ways in which violence is constructed and represented in Latin poetry and prose from Plautus to Prudentius, examining the interrelations between violence, language, power, and gender, and the narrative, rhetorical, and ideological functions of such depictions across the generic spectrum. How does violence contribute to the pleasure of the text? Do depictions of violence always reinforce status-hierarchies, or can they provoke a reassessment of normative value-systems? Is the reader necessarily complicit with authorial constructions of violence? These are pressing questions both for ancient literature and for film and other modern media, and this volume will be of interest to scholars and students of cultural studies as well as of the ancient world.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; Notes on Contributors; Preface; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Reading Roman Violence; I Violence and Rome; II Violence, Myth, and Literature; III Violence, Language, and Power; IV Violence, Gender, and Sexuality; V Violence and the Reader; Chapter 1 Comic Violence and the Citizen Body; Chapter 2 Contemplating Violence: Lucretiusâ#x80;#x99; De rerum natura; I; II; III; IV; V; Chapter 3 Discipline and Punish: Horatian Satire and the Formation of the Self; The Foucauldian Moment; Lucilian Admonition.
Horatian DisciplineConclusion: Practices of Subjection; Chapter 4 Make War Not Love: Militia amoris and Domestic Violence in Roman Elegy; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; Chapter 5 Violence and Resistance in Ovidâ#x80;#x99;s Metamorphoses; Actaeon (Met. 3.131â#x80;#x93;259); Procne, Philomela, and Tereus (Met. 6.424â#x80;#x93;674); Marsyas; Chapter 6 Tales of the Unexpurgated (Cert PG): Senecaâ#x80;#x99;s Audionasties (Controversiae 2.5, 10.4); Let Id Go; Keeping Mum (Books 1â#x80;#x93;2: 2.5); Save the Children Fun (Books 3â#x80;#x93;10: 10.4); Where It Was (Lâ#x80;#x99;Ego); Chapter 7 Dismemberment and the Critics: Senecaâ#x80;#x99;s Phaedra.
Chapter 8 Violence and Alienation in Lucanâ#x80;#x99;s Pharsalia: The Case of CaesarMutilating the Mind: Caesarâ#x80;#x99;s Radical Violence; Encounters with the Sublime and the Abject; Coda: Sociopolitical Considerations; Chapter 9 Tacitus and the Language of Violence; Chapter 10 Cruel Narrative: Apuleiusâ#x80;#x99; Golden Ass; The Bailiffâ#x80;#x99;s Tale: A Cruel Story; A Moral Tale?; Narration and Obliteration; Avoiding Death; The Cruelty of Perspective; The Body of the Ass; Chapter 11 Violence and the Christian Heroine: Two Narratives of Desire; I; II; III; IV; Works Cited; Index.
Horatian DisciplineConclusion: Practices of Subjection; Chapter 4 Make War Not Love: Militia amoris and Domestic Violence in Roman Elegy; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; Chapter 5 Violence and Resistance in Ovidâ#x80;#x99;s Metamorphoses; Actaeon (Met. 3.131â#x80;#x93;259); Procne, Philomela, and Tereus (Met. 6.424â#x80;#x93;674); Marsyas; Chapter 6 Tales of the Unexpurgated (Cert PG): Senecaâ#x80;#x99;s Audionasties (Controversiae 2.5, 10.4); Let Id Go; Keeping Mum (Books 1â#x80;#x93;2: 2.5); Save the Children Fun (Books 3â#x80;#x93;10: 10.4); Where It Was (Lâ#x80;#x99;Ego); Chapter 7 Dismemberment and the Critics: Senecaâ#x80;#x99;s Phaedra.
Chapter 8 Violence and Alienation in Lucanâ#x80;#x99;s Pharsalia: The Case of CaesarMutilating the Mind: Caesarâ#x80;#x99;s Radical Violence; Encounters with the Sublime and the Abject; Coda: Sociopolitical Considerations; Chapter 9 Tacitus and the Language of Violence; Chapter 10 Cruel Narrative: Apuleiusâ#x80;#x99; Golden Ass; The Bailiffâ#x80;#x99;s Tale: A Cruel Story; A Moral Tale?; Narration and Obliteration; Avoiding Death; The Cruelty of Perspective; The Body of the Ass; Chapter 11 Violence and the Christian Heroine: Two Narratives of Desire; I; II; III; IV; Works Cited; Index.
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