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Tacitean Visual Narrative (Hardcover)
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Tacitean Visual Narrative (Hardcover)
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Combining the studies of modern film, traditional narratology, and
Roman art, this interdisciplinary work explores the complex and
highly visual techniques of Tacitus' Annales. The volume opens with
a discussion of current research in narratology, as applied to
Roman historians. Narratology is a helpful and insightful tool, but
is often inadequate to deal with specifically visual aspects of
ancient narrative. In order to illuminate Tacitus' techniques, and
to make them speak to modern readers, this book focuses on drawing
and illustrating parallels between Tacitus' historiographical
methods and modern film effects. Building on these premises,
Waddell examines a wide array of Tacitus' visual narrative devices.
Tacitean examples are discussed in light of their narrative effect
and purpose in the Annales, as well as the ways in which they are
similar to contemporary Roman art and modern film techniques,
including focalization, alignment, use of the ambiguous gaze,
temporal suggestion and quick-cutting. Through this approach the
modern scholar gains a deeper understanding of the many ways in
which Tacitus' Annales act upon the reader, and how his narrative
technique helps to shape, guide, and deeply layer his history.
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