Editore: University of California Press, 2001
ISBN 10: 0520226038 ISBN 13: 9780520226036
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Editore: University of California Press, 2001
ISBN 10: 0520226038 ISBN 13: 9780520226036
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Editore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023
ISBN 10: 3031147995 ISBN 13: 9783031147999
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Editore: Univ. of California Press, U.S.A., 2001
ISBN 10: 0520226011 ISBN 13: 9780520226012
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Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Berkeley: University of California Press. 2001. First edition. 281 pages. Indexes. Cloth, fine copy. No dust jacket as issued by the publisher.
Editore: University of California Press, 2001
ISBN 10: 0520226011 ISBN 13: 9780520226012
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Editore: Bolchazy Carducci Pub, 2014
ISBN 10: 0865167230 ISBN 13: 9780865167230
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Editore: University of California Press, Berkeley, 2001
Da: BIBLIOPE by Calvello Books, Oakland, CA, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condizione: As new. xi, 281 pages; 24 cm; bibliographical references (pages 255-268) and indexes. The Joan Palevsky Imprint in Classical Literature; Classics and Contemporary Thought; 7 [Series] Contents: Gladiatorial Imagery: The Rhetoric of Expenditure --; Recent Studies of Horace and Literary Patronage --; Autonomy and the Discursive Conventions of Patronage --; Literary Amicitia --; The Gift Economy of Patronage --; Poetry and the Marketplace --; The Embedded Economy of Rome --; Gift and Delay in the Horatian Chronology --; Tragic History, Lyric Expiation, and the Gift of Sacrifice --; Pollio's History and the Purification of Ritual Violence: Odes 2.1 --; Ritual Devotio and the Lyric Curse: Odes 2.13 --; The Roman Odes and Tragic Sacrifice --; The Gift of Ideology --; The Gifts of the Golden Age: Land, Debt, and Aesthetic Surplus --; Land, Otium, Art: Eclogue 1 --; Gratia and the Poetics of Excess: Eclogue 4 --; The Man Protesteth Too Much: Satires 2.6 --; The Cornucopia and Hermeneutic Abundance: Odes 1.17 --; From Patron to Friend: Epistolary Refashioning and the Economics of Refusal --; Epistolary Subjectivity --; Dyadic Disequilibrium and the Alternation of Debt: Epistles 1.1 --; The Duplicitous Speaker of Epistles 1.7 --; The Economics of Social Inscription --; The Epistolary Farm and the Status Implications of Epicurean Ataraxia --; Pastoral and Privation --; The Economy of Otium and the Material Conditions of the Aequus Animus: Epistles 1.14 --; The Tenuis Imago, or the Vulnerability of an Image: Epistles 1.16 --; Conclusion: The Gift and the Reading Community. "This innovative study explores selected odes and epistles by the late-first-century poet Horace in light of modern anthropological and literary theory. Phebe Lowell Bowditch looks in particular at how the relationship between Horace and his patron Maecenas is reflected in these poems' themes and rhetorical figures. Using anthropological studies on gift exchange, she uncovers an implicit economic dynamic in these poems and skillfully challenges standard views on literary patronage in this period. Horace and the Gift Economy of Patronage provides a striking new understanding of Horace's poems and the Roman system of patronage, and also demonstrates the relevance of New Historicist and Marxist critical paradigms for Roman studies. In addition to incorporating anthropological and sociological perspectives, Bowditch's theoretical approach makes use of concepts drawn from linguistics, deconstruction, and the work of Michel Foucault. She weaves together these ideas in an original approach to Horace's use of golden age imagery, his language concerning public gifts or munera, his metaphors of sacrifice, and the rhetoric of class and status found in these poems. Horace and the Gift Economy of Patronage represents an original approach to central issues and questions in the study of Latin literature, and sheds new light on our understanding of Roman society in general."-Publisher. Authors and patrons in literature. Patron and client -- Rome. Literary patrons -- Rome. Gifts in literature. Gifts (Roman law) Authors and patrons -- Rome -- History. Écrivains et mécènes -- Rome -- Histoire. Patron et client -- Rome. Donations (Droit romain) Écrivains et mécènes dans la littérature. Cadeaux dans la littérature. Horace -- Et l'économie politique. Écrivains et mécènes -- Rome. Mécènes de la littérature -- Rome. 18.46 ancient Latin literature. Authors and patrons. Authors and patrons in literature. Economic history. Economics. Gifts in literature. Gifts (Roman law) Literary patrons. Manners and customs. Patron and client. Mäzenatentum Patronage. Cliëntelisme. Gedichten. Latijn. Authors and patrons -- Rome. Patron and client -- Rome. Named Person: Horace -- Knowledge -- Economics. Horace -- Knowledge -- Economics. Horace. Horatius Flaccus, Quintus v65-v8 Horace. Horatius Flaccus, Q., 65-8 v. Chr. Maecenas, Gaius Cilnius. Horatius Flaccus, Quintus. Geographic: Rome -- Social life and customs. Rome --.
Editore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023
ISBN 10: 3031148010 ISBN 13: 9783031148019
Da: Ria Christie Collections, Uxbridge, Regno Unito
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Editore: University of California Press (7 marzo 2001), 2001
Da: Pali, Roma, RM, Italia
Soft Cover. Condizione: Very Good. 8vo, br. ed. 281pp. This innovative study explores selected odes and epistles by the late-first-century poet Horace in light of modern anthropological and literary theory. Phebe Lowell Bowditch looks in particular at how the relationship between Horace and his patron Maecenas is reflected in these poems' themes and rhetorical figures. Using anthropological studies on gift exchange, she uncovers an implicit economic dynamic in these poems and skillfully challenges standard views on literary patronage in this period. Horace and the Gift Economy of Patronage provides a striking new understanding of Horace's poems and the Roman system of patronage, and also demonstrates the relevance of New Historicist and Marxist critical paradigms for Roman studies. In addition to incorporating anthropological and sociological perspectives, Bowditch's theoretical approach makes use of concepts drawn from linguistics, deconstruction, and the work of Michel Foucault. She weaves together these ideas in an original approach to Horace's use of golden age imagery, his language concerning public gifts or munera, his metaphors of sacrifice, and the rhetoric of class and status found in these poems. Horace and the Gift Economy of Patronage represents an original approach to central issues and questions in the study of Latin literature, and sheds new light on our understanding of Roman society in general.
Editore: Springer International Publishing, 2024
ISBN 10: 3031148029 ISBN 13: 9783031148026
Da: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germania
Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book explores Roman love elegy from postcolonial perspectives, arguing that the tropes, conventions, and discourses of the Augustan genre serve to reinforce the imperial identity of its elite, metropolitan audience. Love elegy presents the phenomena and discourses of Roman imperialism-in terms of visual spectacle (the military triumph), literary genre (epic in relation to elegy), material culture (art and luxury goods), and geographic space-as intersecting with ancient norms of gender and sexuality in a way that reinforces Rome's dominance in the Mediterranean. The introductory chapter lays out the postcolonial frame, drawing from the work of Edward Said among other theorists, and situates love elegy in relation to Roman Hellenism and the varied Roman responses to Greece and its cultural influences. Four of the six subsequent chapters focus on the rhetorical ambivalence that characterizes love elegy's treatment of Greek influence: the representation of the domina or mistress assimultaneously a figure for 'captive Greece' and a trope for Roman imperialism; the motif of the elegiac triumph, with varying figures playing the triumphator, as suggestive of Greco-Roman cultural rivalry; Rome's competing visions of an Attic and an Asiatic Hellenism. The second and the final chapter focus on the figures of Osiris and Isis, respectively, as emblematic of Rome's colonialist and ambivalent representation of Egypt, with the conclusion offering a deconstructive reading of elegy's rhetoric of orientalism.
Editore: Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Fair, Boston, 1843
Da: White Raven Books, Ypsilanti, MI, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Freshly rebacked by Bessenberg Bindery with black leatherette with gold title & original pale yellow paper over boards, title page also printed on front board, ringing bell device on back board, & heavily foxed frontis of Charles Pollen; An almost very good copy; 208 pages. Size: 4.75x7.5".