Editorial Bodies Perfection and Rejection in Ancient Rhetoric and Poetics / Michele Kennerly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kennerly, Michele, author.

Series:

Studies in rhetoric/communication.

Studies in rhetoric/communication

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manuscripts--Editing.

Manuscripts.

Rhetoric, Ancient.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2018

Place of Publication:

Columbia : The University of South Carolina Press, 2018.

Summary:

Reveals the emergence and endurance of vocabularies, habits, and preferences that sustained ancient textual cultures Though typically considered oral cultures, ancient Greece and Rome also boasted textual cultures, enabled by efforts to perfect, publish, and preserve both new and old writing. In Editorial Bodies, Michele Kennerly argues that such efforts were commonly articulated through the extended metaphor of the body. They were also supported by people upon whom writers relied for various kinds of assistance and necessitated by lively debates about what sort of words should be put out and remain in public. Spanning ancient Athenian, Alexandrian, and Roman textual cultures, Kennerly shows that orators and poets attributed public value to their seemingly inward-turning compositional labors. After establishing certain key terms of writing and editing from classical Athens through late republican Rome, Kennerly focuses on works from specific orators and poets writing in Latin in the first century B.C.E. and the first century C.E.: Cicero, Horace, Ovid, Quintilian, Tacitus, and Pliny the Younger. The result is a rich and original history of rhetoric that reveals the emergence and endurance of vocabularies, habits, and preferences that sustained ancient textual cultures. This major contribution to rhetorical studies unsettles longstanding assumptions about ancient rhetoric and poetics by means of generative readings of both well-known and understudied texts.

Contents:

Front Matter

Table of Contents

Series Editors Preface / Thomas W. Benson

Acknowledgments

A Note on Translation

INTRODUCTION:

THE POLIS(H) OF CLASSICAL ATHENS

HELLENISTIC GLOSS

TALES AND TOOLS OF THE ORATORICAL TRADITIO IN CICERO

FILING AND DEFILING HORACE

OVIDS EXILIC EXPOLITIO

THE CARES OF QUINTILIAN

PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE PERFECT ELOQUENCE

CONCLUSION:

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781611179118

1611179114

OCLC:

1035776913