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Texts and Violence in the Roman World (Hardcover)
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From the bites and scratches of lovers and the threat of flogging
that hangs over the comic slave, to murder, rape, dismemberment,
and crucifixion, violence is everywhere in Latin literature. The
contributors to this volume explore the manifold ways in which
violence is constructed and represented in Latin poetry and prose
from Plautus to Prudentius, examining the interrelations between
violence, language, power, and gender, and the narrative,
rhetorical, and ideological functions of such depictions across the
generic spectrum. How does violence contribute to the pleasure of
the text? Do depictions of violence always reinforce
status-hierarchies, or can they provoke a reassessment of normative
value-systems? Is the reader necessarily complicit with authorial
constructions of violence? These are pressing questions both for
ancient literature and for film and other modern media, and this
volume will be of interest to scholars and students of cultural
studies as well as of the ancient world.
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