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At the Limits of Art - A Literary Study of Aelius Aristides' Hieroi Logoi (Hardcover)
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At the Limits of Art - A Literary Study of Aelius Aristides' Hieroi Logoi (Hardcover)
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Aelius Aristides' Hieroi Logoi present a unique first-person
narrative from the ancient world-a narrative that seems at once
public and private, artful and naive. While scholars have embraced
the Logoi as a rich source for Imperial-era religion, politics, and
elite culture, the style of the text has presented a persistent
stumbling block to literary analysis. Setting this dream-memoir of
illness and divine healing in the context of Aristides'
professional concerns as an orator, this book investigates the
text's rhetorical aims and literary aspirations. At the Limits of
Art argues that the Hieroi Logoi are an experimental work.
Incorporating numerous dream accounts and narratives of divine cure
in a multi-layered and open text, Aristides works at the limits of
rhetorical convention to fashion an authorial voice that is
transparent to the divine. Reading the Logoi in the context of
contemporary oratorical practices, and in tandem with Aristides'
polemical orations and prose hymns, the book uncovers the
professional agendas motivating this unusual self-portrait.
Aristides' sober view of oratory as a sacred pursuit was in
conflict with a widespread contemporary preference for spectacular
public performance. In the Hieroi Logoi, Aristides claims a place
in the world of the Second Sophistic on his own terms, offering a
vision of his professional inspiration in a style that pushes the
limits of literary convention.
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