Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2003
ISBN 10: 0521820057 ISBN 13: 9780521820059
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Shows minor wear.
Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2003
ISBN 10: 0521820057 ISBN 13: 9780521820059
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Zustand: Used - Like New. 2003. Hardcover. Fine. Dust Jackt is Fine.
Verlag: Cambridge University Press. 19.06.2003., 2003
ISBN 10: 0521820057 ISBN 13: 9780521820059
Anbieter: Fundus-Online GbR Borkert Schwarz Zerfaß, Berlin, Deutschland
Zustand: Gut. XII, 284 Seiten / 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). - sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - Not even the most febrile fits of authorial vanity would incline me to believe that the world eagerly awaits the present volume. Relatively few know what declamation is, and of those who know something about it, most are satisfied with their knowledge, and do not care to know more. Perhaps the author of a full-length study on such a topic possesses an admirable dedication to the production of knowledge in its own right, to the documenting of every scrap about the past no matter how tattered and uninteresting. Or perhaps such an author is merely dedicated to the production of verbiage and to wallowing in the mire. General readers can be excused from perusing the first sort of text; sensible ones will avoid the second. -- Producing knowledge and producing verbiage, though, are themselves -or at least they should be issues within declamatory criticism. They are not mere metacritical issues. Can seemingly empty speech from antiquity really have been all that empty? Just try to say something and have it mean nothing. Have you come up with a clever bit of non-meaning? Remember, its meaninglessness is still governed by the condition that it be meaningless. It means, then, precisely nothing. And even if you can produce that one meaningless thought, you must also accept that others did the same over the course of centuries. It would be easier just to admit that something might be in such a corpus than to insist doggedly that scores of hands had so successfully managed to speak empty volumes. ISBN 9780521820059 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 630 15,2 x 2,1 x 22,9 cm, Originalhardcover.
Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2007
ISBN 10: 0521036526 ISBN 13: 9780521036528
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book explores the much maligned and misunderstood genre of declamation. Instead of a bastard rhetoric, declamation should be seen as a venue within which the rhetoric of the legitimate self is constructed. These fictions of the self are uncannily real, and these stagey dramas are in fact rehearsals for the serious play of Roman identity. Critics of declamation find themselves recapitulating the very logic of the genre they are refusing. When declamation is read in the light of the contemporary theory of the subject a wholly different picture emerges: this is a canny game played with and within the rhetoric of the self. This book makes broad claims for what is often seen as a narrow topic. An appendix includes a fresh translation and brief discussion of a sample of surviving examples of declamation.
Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2003
ISBN 10: 0521820057 ISBN 13: 9780521820059
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Radical re-evaluation of the genre of declamation and its social and psychic import.