Editorial Bodies - Perfection and Rejection in Ancient Rhetoric and Poetics (Paperback)

Reveals the emergence and endurance of vocabularies, habits, and preferences that sustained ancient textual cultures. Though typically considered oral cultures, ancient Greece and Rome also boasted textual cultures, enabled by efforts to perfect, publish, and preserve both new and old writing. In Editorial Bodies, Michele Kennerly argues that such efforts were commonly articulated through the extended metaphor of the body. They were also supported by people upon whom writers relied for various kinds of assistance and necessitated by lively debates about what sort of words should be put out and remain in public. Spanning ancient Athenian, Alexandrian, and Roman textual cultures, Kennerly shows that orators and poets attributed public value to their seemingly inward-turning compositional labors. After establishing certain key terms of writing and editing from classical Athens through late republican Rome, Kennerly focuses on works from specific orators and poets writing in Latin in the first century B.C.E. and the first century C.E.: Cicero, Horace, Ovid, Quintilian, Tacitus, and Pliny the Younger. The result is a rich and original history of rhetoric that reveals the emergence and endurance of vocabularies, habits, and preferences that sustained ancient textual cultures. This major contribution to rhetorical studies unsettles longstanding assumptions about ancient rhetoric and poetics by means of generative readings of both well-known and understudied texts.

General

Imprint:	University of South Carolina Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Studies in Rhetoric/Communication
Release date:	December 2018
Authors:	Michele Kennerly
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	248
ISBN-13:	978-1-61117-910-1
Categories:	Books Promotions
LSN:	1-61117-910-6
Barcode:	9781611179101

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