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Declamation, Paternity, and Roman Identity - Authority and the Rhetorical Self (Paperback)
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Declamation, Paternity, and Roman Identity - Authority and the Rhetorical Self (Paperback)
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This book explores the much maligned and misunderstood genre of
declamation. Instead of a bastard rhetoric, declamation should be
seen as a venue within which the rhetoric of the legitimate self is
constructed. These fictions of the self are uncannily real, and
these stagey dramas are in fact rehearsals for the serious play of
Roman identity. Critics of declamation find themselves
recapitulating the very logic of the genre they are refusing. When
declamation is read in the light of the contemporary theory of the
subject a wholly different picture emerges: this is a canny game
played with and within the rhetoric of the self. This book makes
broad claims for what is often seen as a narrow topic. An appendix
includes a fresh translation and brief discussion of a sample of
surviving examples of declamation.
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