Irony and Misreading in the Annals of Tacitus

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O'Gorman, Ellen

TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback

212 Seiten

Englisch

Cambridge University Presserschienen am14.12.2006

This 2000 book examines Tacitus' Annals as an ironic portrayal of Julio-Claudian Rome, through close analysis of passages in which characters engage in interpretation and misreading. By representing the misreading of signifying systems - such as speech, gesture, writing, social structures and natural phenomena - Tacitus obliquely comments upon the perversion of Rome's republican structure in the new principate. Furthermore, this study argues that the distinctively obscure style of the Annals is used by Tacitus to draw his reader into the ambiguities and compromises of the political regime it represents. The strain on language and meaning both portrayed and enacted by the Annals in this way gives voice to a form of political protest to which the reader must respond in the course of interpreting the narrative.mehr

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KlappentextThis 2000 book examines Tacitus' Annals as an ironic portrayal of Julio-Claudian Rome, through close analysis of passages in which characters engage in interpretation and misreading. By representing the misreading of signifying systems - such as speech, gesture, writing, social structures and natural phenomena - Tacitus obliquely comments upon the perversion of Rome's republican structure in the new principate. Furthermore, this study argues that the distinctively obscure style of the Annals is used by Tacitus to draw his reader into the ambiguities and compromises of the political regime it represents. The strain on language and meaning both portrayed and enacted by the Annals in this way gives voice to a form of political protest to which the reader must respond in the course of interpreting the narrative.

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ISBN/GTIN978-0-521-03495-1

ProduktartTaschenbuch

EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback

Verlag

Cambridge University Press

Erscheinungsjahr2006

Erscheinungsdatum14.12.2006

Seiten212 Seiten

SpracheEnglisch

MasseBreite 152 mm, Höhe 229 mm, Dicke 13 mm

Gewicht352 g

Artikel-Nr.14196231

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Preface; 1. Introduction: irony, history, reading; 2. Imperium sine fine: problems of definition in Annals I; 3. Germanicus and the reader in the text; 4. Reading Tiberius at face value; 5. Obliteration and the literate emperor; 6. The empress's plot; 7. Ghostwriting the emperor Nero; 8. Conclusion: the end of history; Bibliography; General index; Index locorum.mehr