Dupont, professor florence (8 risultati)

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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Later Printing. Minor shelf wear. Else a bright, clean copy. Antiquity, which is claimed to have invented literature, philosophy, and history, humanism, human rights, and democracy, is called upon to vouch for us, the Europeans of today, in the face of the passing centuries, by demonstrating that our own civilization cannot possibly be mortal since it is civilization itself. But there is another, more disorienting way of using antiquity. The present work would like to suggest a rediscovery of the alienness of the ancients, for this would be a way of rediscovering ourselves in all our repressed diversity. -- from the Introduction. Writing, so often claimed as the necessary tool for social and individual progress, has another history. In classical Greece, writing was looked upon with suspicion, an attempt to subject the reader to the writer's will. The spread of books and their exaltation announced the victory of conquerors. In antiquity, writing was not written for a literary public but for private ceremonies, trade, and secrecy. The invention of literature, writes Florence Dupont, is recent, and its classical ancestry is not firm. Rather than representing solely the remains of a network of readers and writers, the odes, epics, tales, and dramas of Greece and Rome had a much more diversified background and purpose. Some works were intended to be read in groups; other works were not meant to be read at all. The pleasures of reading -- a vital characteristic of literature -- were tied up in pleasures that were by no means private or intellectual. Resisting the traditional temptation to project current tastes and beliefs backward upon Greece and Rome, The Invention of Literature presents classical writings in all their differences. The labor of understanding a lyric or an epic as it was understood in its time requires a radical reconsideration of what reading is and what it means.…

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Rome, civilisation des spectacles, est connue pour les jeux du cirque, mais on ignore que le théâtre y tint une place au moins aussi importante. Les Romains, dès la République, allaient au théâtre dix fois plus que les Athéniens. Ce livre veut donc rendre justice à la tragédie, la comédie, mais aussi au mime et à la pantomime romaine. Car ce théâtre fut aussi profondément original. Par la place qu'il tint dans la vie du citoyen romain, comme espace de libertés ? liberté politique et libération de l?imaginaire. Par le statut ambigu des acteurs: véritables stars, ils fascinent les Romains, reçoivent des cachets somptueux et sont suivis par des foules d?admirateurs, en même temps qu?ils sont marqués d?infamie et assimilés à des prostitués. Par le caractère musical des représentations, chantées et dansées, où il faut voir l?origine de l?opéra. Il est impossible de comprendre ce que fut véritablement Rome si l?on ne reconstitue pas ce loisir privilégié du citoyen, qui peu à peu dévora sa vie privée et publique, au point que saint Augustin, à la fin de l?Empire, définira le Romain comme un spectateur, pour ainsi dire, « drogué « de théâtre.…