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Intercepted Letters - Epistolary and Narrative in Greek and Roman Literature (Hardcover)
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Intercepted Letters - Epistolary and Narrative in Greek and Roman Literature (Hardcover)
Series: Roman Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
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Intercepted Letters examines the phenomenon of epistolarity within
a range of classical Greek and Roman texts, with a focus on letters
as symbols for larger, culturally constructed processes of reading,
writing, and interpretation. In addition, it analyzes how the
epistolary form occasionally problematizes-for lack of a better
word-the introduction of the technology of writing into cultures
already heavily implicated in the authority of the spoken, or sung,
word. The methods of intertextuality and reader-response theory
that have so revolutionized other aspects of classical scholarship
have not, in the main, been applied to epistolarity studies;
studies of epistolarity have instead tended to focus on individual
collections: Cicero's letters, Pliny's letters, Plato's letters.
Epistolarity that occurs in larger narrative contexts (such as
tragedy, oratory, and historiography) remains woefully
under-theorized; moreover, a consistent thread in the introduction
of epistolarity into non-epistolary contexts is that of a
destabilizing or dislocating narrative device. Intercepted Letters
argues that epistolarity has certain formal features that can be
found evenoutside of epistolary collections, including the
problematics of communication, an emphasis on authorial absence, a
hypersensitivity to interpretation, and an implicit focus on power
(who controls the voice?). These aspects are as integral to studies
of epistolary episodes as sheep, flutes, shepherds, and amoebic
poetry are to pastoral ones, and yet seem to be comparatively
neglected, or else formulated as individual observances rather than
a pattern. Intercepted Letters thus examines a number of epistolary
tropes-in authors as wide-ranging as Euripides, Ovid, and the
authors of the Historia Augusta-as it argues for the importance of
epistolarity in analyzing the poetics of reading in the ancient
world.
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