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The Dynamics of Rhetorical Performances in Late Antiquity
Engelsk
Bogcover for The Dynamics of Rhetorical Performances in Late Antiquity af Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas, 9781032094571
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
182
ISBN-13:
9781032094571
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1032094575
Udg. Dato:
30 jun 2021
Størrelse i cm:
15,6 x 23,4 x 1,4
Oplagsdato:
30 jun 2021

The Dynamics of Rhetorical Performances in Late Antiquity

Engelsk
Paperback 2021
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This book argues that narrations of rhetorical performances in late antique literature can be interpreted as a reflection of the ongoing debates of the time. Competition among cultural elites, strategies of self-presentation and the making of religious orthodoxy often took the shape of narrations of rhetorical performances in which comments on the display of oratorical skills also incorporated moral and ethical judgments about the performer. Using texts from late antique authors (in particular, Themistius, Synesius of Cyrene, and Libanius of Antioch), this book proposes that this type of narrative should be understood as a valuable way to decipher the cultural and religious landscape of the fourth century AD. The volume pays particular attention to narrations of deficient rhetorical deliveries, arguing that the accounts of flaws and mistakes in oratorical displays and rhetorical performances reveal how late antique literature echoed the concerns of the time. Criticisms of deficient deliveries in different speaking occasions (declamations, public speeches, oratorical agones, school exercises, sermons) were often disguised as accusations of practising magic, heresy or cultural apostasy. A close reading of the sources shows that these oratorical deficiencies hid struggles over religious, cultural and political issues.

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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
182
ISBN-13:
9781032094571
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1032094575
Udg. Dato:
30 jun 2021
Størrelse i cm:
15,6 x 23,4 x 1,4
Oplagsdato:
30 jun 2021
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