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Authority and History - Ancient Models, Modern Questions (Hardcover)
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Authority and History - Ancient Models, Modern Questions (Hardcover)
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This book examines authority in discourse from ancient to modern
historians, while also presenting instances of current subversions
of the classical rhetorical ethos. Ancient rhetoric set out the
rules of authority in discourse, and directly affected the claims
of Greek and Roman historians to truth. These working principles
were consolidated in modern tradition, but not without
modifications. The contemporary world, in its turn, subverts in
many new ways the weight of the author's claim to legitimacy and
truth, through the active role of the audiences. How have the
ancient claims to authority worked and changed from their own times
to our post-modern, digital world? Online uses and outreach
displays of the classical past, especially through social media,
have altered the balance of the authority traditionally bestowed
upon the ancients, demonstrating what the linguistic turn has
shown: the role of the reader is as important as that of the
writer.
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