Isbn: 9780691027395 - controlling laughter: political humor in the late roman republic (princeton legacy library) (5 Ergebnisse)

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First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Tiny pencil marks in margins. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 266 pages. Notes; Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of California, Berkeley. Contents; Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Physical Peculiarities -- Chapter 2. Names and Cognomina -- Chapter 3. Moral Appearance in Action: Mouths -- Chapter 4. Moral Appearance in Action: Mouths -- Chapter 5. A Political History o f Wit -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX LOCORUM ET IOCORUM -- GENERAL INDEX -- Backmatter. Subjects; Political ethics Rome. Political oratory Rome. Wit and humor Social aspects. 1 Kg. …

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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Near Fine. Book is fine. DJ has very light shelfwear.; Although numerous scholars have studied Late Republican humor, this is the first book to examine its social and political context. Anthony Corbeill maintains that political abuse exercised real powers of persuasion over Roman audiences and he demonstrates how public humor both creates and enforces a society's norms. Previous scholarship has offered two explanations for why abusive language proliferated in Roman oratory. The first asserts that public rhetoric, filled with extravagant lies, was unconstrained by strictures of propriety. The second contends that invective represents an artifice borrowed from the Greeks. After a fresh reading of all extant literary works from the period, Corbeill concludes that the topics exploited in political invective arise from biases already present in Roman society. The author assesses evidence outside political discourse--from prayer ritual to philosophical speculation to physiognomic texts--in order to locate independently the biases in Roman society that enabled an orator's jokes to persuade. Within each instance of abusive humor--a name pun, for example, or the mockery of a physical deformity--resided values and preconceptions that were essential to the way a Roman citizen of the Late Republic defined himself in relation to his community.; 280 pages.…