Texts and violence in the Roman world / edited by Monica R. Gale and J.H.D. Scourfield.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gale, Monica (Monica R.), editor.

Scourfield, J. H. D., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin literature--History and criticism.

Latin literature.

Violence in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 384 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Summary:

From the bites and scratches of lovers and the threat of flogging that hangs over the comic slave, to murder, rape, dismemberment, and crucifixion, violence is everywhere in Latin literature. The contributors to this volume explore the manifold ways in which violence is constructed and represented in Latin poetry and prose from Plautus to Prudentius, examining the interrelations between violence, language, power, and gender, and the narrative, rhetorical, and ideological functions of such depictions across the generic spectrum. How does violence contribute to the pleasure of the text? Do depictions of violence always reinforce status-hierarchies, or can they provoke a reassessment of normative value-systems? Is the reader necessarily complicit with authorial constructions of violence? These are pressing questions both for ancient literature and for film and other modern media, and this volume will be of interest to scholars and students of cultural studies as well as of the ancient world.

Contents:

Introduction: reading Roman violence / Monica R. Gale and J.H.D. Scourfield

Comic violence and the citizen body / David Konstan and Shilpa Raval

Contemplating violence: Lucretius' De rerum natura / Monica R. Gale

Discipline and punish: Horatian satire and the formation of the self / Paul Allen Miller

Make war not love: Militia amoris and domestic violence in Roman elegy / Donncha O'Rourke

Violence and resistance in Ovid's Metamorphoses / Carole E. Newlands

Tales of the unexpurgated (cert PG): Seneca's Audionasties (Controversiae 2.5, 10.4) / John Henderson

Dismemberment and the critics: Seneca's Phaedra / Duncan F. Kennedy

Violence and alienation in Lucan's Pharsalia: the case of Caesar / Efrossini Spentzou

Tacitus and the language of violence / Bruce J. Gibson

Cruel narrative: Apuleius' Golden ass / William Fitzgerald

Violence and the Christian heroine: two narratives of desire / J.H.D. Scourfield.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Apr 2018).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-108-62417-0

1-139-22530-8

1-108-60945-7