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Writing, Performance, and Authority in Augustan Rome (Hardcover)
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Writing, Performance, and Authority in Augustan Rome (Hardcover)
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In Writing, Performance, and Authority in Augustan Rome Michele
Lowrie examines how the Romans conceived of their poetic media.
Song has links to the divine through prophecy, while writing offers
a more quotisian, but also more realistic way of presenting what a
poet does. In a culture of highly polished book production where
recitation was the fashion, to claim to sing or to write was one
means of self-definition. Lowrie assesses the stakes of poetic
claims to one medium or another. Generic definition is an important
factor. Epic and lyric have traditional associations with song,
while the literacy epistle is obviously written. But issuess of
poetic interpretability and power matter even more. The choice of
medium contributes to the debate about the relative potency of
rival discourses, specifically poetry, politics, and the law.
Writing could offer an escape from the social and political demands
of the moment by shifting the focus toward the readership of
posterity.
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