Writing Exile: The Discourse of Displacement in Greco-Roman Antiquity and Beyond

Writing Exile: The Discourse of Displacement in Greco-Roman Antiquity and Beyond
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 310
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ISBN-10 : 9789047418948
ISBN-13 : 9047418948
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Book Synopsis Writing Exile: The Discourse of Displacement in Greco-Roman Antiquity and Beyond by : Jan Felix Gaertner

Download or read book Writing Exile: The Discourse of Displacement in Greco-Roman Antiquity and Beyond written by Jan Felix Gaertner and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-02-28 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exile and displacement are central topics in classical literature. Previous research has been mostly biographical and has focused on the three most prominent exiles: Cicero, Ovid, and Seneca. By shifting focus to a discourse of exile and displacement in early Greek poetry, Greek historiography, Cynicism, consolatory literature, Latin epic, Greek literature of the empire, and Medieval Latin literature, the present volume questions the notion of a distinct, psychologically conditioned ‘genre’ or ‘mode’ of exile literature. It shows how ancient and medieval authors perceive and present their exile according to pre-existent literary paradigms, style themselves or others as ‘typical’ exiles, and employ ‘exile’ as a powerful trope to express estrangement, elicit readerly sympathy, and question political power structures.


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