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Irony and Misreading in the Annals of Tacitus (Paperback, New ed)
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Irony and Misreading in the Annals of Tacitus (Paperback, New ed)
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This 2000 book examines Tacitus' Annals as an ironic portrayal of
Julio-Claudian Rome, through close analysis of passages in which
characters engage in interpretation and misreading. By representing
the misreading of signifying systems - such as speech, gesture,
writing, social structures and natural phenomena - Tacitus
obliquely comments upon the perversion of Rome's republican
structure in the new principate. Furthermore, this study argues
that the distinctively obscure style of the Annals is used by
Tacitus to draw his reader into the ambiguities and compromises of
the political regime it represents. The strain on language and
meaning both portrayed and enacted by the Annals in this way gives
voice to a form of political protest to which the reader must
respond in the course of interpreting the narrative.
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