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Writing Exile: The Discourse of Displacement in Greco-Roman Antiquity and Beyond
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Edited by:
Jan Felix Gaertner
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2007
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Exile and displacement are central topics in classical literature. Previous research has been mostly biographical and has focused on the three most prominent exiles: Cicero, Ovid, and Seneca. By shifting focus to a discourse of exile and displacement in early Greek poetry, Greek historiography, Cynicism, consolatory literature, Latin epic, Greek literature of the empire, and Medieval Latin literature, the present volume questions the notion of a distinct, psychologically conditioned ‘genre’ or ‘mode’ of exile literature. It shows how ancient and medieval authors perceive and present their exile according to pre-existent literary paradigms, style themselves or others as ‘typical’ exiles, and employ ‘exile’ as a powerful trope to express estrangement, elicit readerly sympathy, and question political power structures.
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Jan Felix Gaertner, D.Phil. (2002) in Classics, University of Oxford, is Assistant at the Institut für Klassische Philologie und Komparatistik, University of Leipzig. His publications include a commentary (with text and English translation) of Ovid, Epistulae ex Ponto 1 (Oxford, 2005).
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eBook published on:
February 28, 2007
eBook ISBN:
9789047418948
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Main content:
300
eBook ISBN:
9789047418948
Keywords for this book
exile; displacement; discourse; classics; medieval; literature; Ovid; Cicero; Seneca; consolatory; cynicism
Audience(s) for this book
All those interested in intellectual history, literature of Greco-Roman Antiquity and the Middle Ages, modern literature, reception studies, exile literature.
