9780691027395 - Controlling Laughter: Political Humor in the Late Roman Republic (Princeton Legacy Library) von Corbeill, Anthony (5 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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. 3 Kg.

Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,650grams, ISBN:0691027390.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: 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.

Zustand: Sehr gut. 251 p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Zustand: Leicht beschmutzter sowie minimal beschabter Schutzumschlag. Ansonsten im einwandfreien Zustand. / Conditio: Lightly soiled as well as minimally scuffed dust jacket. Otherwise in perfect condition. - Content: This book began as a dissertation written for the Department of Classics at the University of California, Berkeley, under the direction of William S. Anderson, Erich Gruen, and Thomas Habinek. While at Berkeley I also benefited from discussions with Andrew Kelly, Annie Thrower, and Florence Verducci. Financial support for the final year of thesis writing was provided by a Charlotte W. Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship (Woodrow Wilson Foundation); occasional lunches and a stimulating exchange of ideas were supplied during that same year by a fellowship from the Townsend Center for the Humanities at Berkeley. I would like to thank both institutions for their generosity and support. After completing my dissertation, a fellowship from the American Philological Association, sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Packard Foundation, introduced me to the rigors of philology as practiced at the Thesaurus linguae Latinae in Munich. Cornelis van Leijenhorst, my editor and friend in Germany, provided a special source of encouragement and expertise. I can only hope to have brought back with me to America at least a small portion of what I learned from my colleagues at the Thesaurus. Back in the United States, the Graduate Research Fund at the University of Kansas provided generous financial support for revisions and additions made during the summers of 1992 and 1993. While I was preparing the manuscript for publication the following friends and colleagues read and commented at different stages on various parts: Anastasios Daskalopoulos, Judith Hallett, Peter Holliday, Karl Kirchwey, L. R. Lind, Stanley Lombardo, Andrew Riggsby, and Marilyn Skinner. I appreciate the time and suggestions of all and extend a separate thanks to Linda Montgomery for relief and to Craig Voorhees for hours worth of challenges. Two anonymous readers for the press also provided helpful suggestions. Final revisions of the manuscript were made during part of a nine-month stay at the American Academy in Rome in 1994/95, where I had the incomparable privilege of holding a Rome Prize funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. My time in Rome benefited especially from conversations with, and encouragement from, Malcolm Bell III, John Clarke, and Nicholas Horsfall. Four final expressions of gratitude: to Amy Richlin, for improving much of this bookif it is not better, that is because I have obstinately and perhaps unwisely stood by my own ideas; to Erich Gruen, a model as both a scholar and a teacher, who somehow seems always to have time for his students even after they are long gone; to Arthur Riss, who was present from the moment the idea for this project appeared in a Berkeley cafe through all the painful steps of writing and revision; and to Babette Crowder, for special support. ISBN 9780691027395 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 711 Original hardcover with foiled dust jacket.