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Paris, a New Rome
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Edited by:
Michèle Lowrie
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English
Published/Copyright:
2024
About this book
However shared the Roman inheritance may be, it hardly unifies. Which Rome is the model, the Republic or the Empire? The Rome of imperial conquest or of civil war? By whom is it ruled? By the glorious conqueror who extended universal peace, the rule of law, and infrastructure – roads and aqueducts – or by the detested tyrant who imposed domination? Or worse, the corruptor of republican liberty and source of putrefying decadence? Rome always returns, but which Rome? France presents itself as a privileged locus for Rome’s return since the beginnings of its history. The perennial recourse to ancient Rome – as model or anti-model – binds together a cohesive tradition. The logic of this gesture asserts a unity beyond modern identity politics, which depend on defining a “them” against “us,” to resist nativist assumptions about national character, French, German, Italian, American, etc. All share the same polysemous inheritance, for good or ill. All are Roman and all resist Rome without needing to agree on what exactly is shared. The unity underlying the discourse, however, no longer depends on defining Rome as an origin. Instead, Rome’s figuration persists discursively, as a translation: to be translated time and time again.
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Michèle Lowrie, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA; Barbara Vinken, Ludwig-Maximilians University München, Munich, Germany.
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I Before Paris
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eBook published on:
May 6, 2024
eBook ISBN:
9783111334776
Hardcover published on:
May 6, 2024
Hardcover ISBN:
9783111334738
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
8
Main content:
230
Illustrations:
3
Coloured Illustrations:
36
Audience(s) for this book
historians, scholars and students of literature, art and music history, cultural and Romance studies
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