Making a New Man

Ciceronian Self-Fashioning in the Rhetorical Works

Inbunden, Engelska, 2005

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Beskrivning

In Making a New Man John Dugan investigates how Cicero (106-43 BCE) uses his major treatises on rhetorical theory (De oratore, Brutus, and Orator) in order to construct himself as a new entity within Roman cultural life: a leader who based his authority upon intellectual, oratorical, and literary accomplishments instead of the traditional avenues for prestige such as a distinguished familial pedigree or political or military feats. Eschewing conventional Roman notions of manliness, Cicero constructed a distinctly aesthetized identity that flirts with the questionable domains of the theatre and the feminine, and thus fashioned himself as a `new man'.

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Utgivningsdatum:2005-03-03
Mått:146 x 223 x 26 mm
Vikt:597 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:400
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780199267804

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John Dugan is Assistant Professor in the Classics Department, State University of New York at Buffalo.

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Were it up to me, John Dugan's Making a New Man would assume a central place in today's criticism of Roman rhetorical theory...[his approach is] an especially productive and provocative way of reading both rhetoric and rhetorical theory...[it is] a fertile synthesis of texts, themes, and modes of reading.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction ; 1. EPIDEIXIS, TEXTUALITY, AND SELF-FASHIONING IN THE PRO ARCHIA AND IN PISONEM ; 2. FASHIONING THE IDEAL ORATOR: THEATRICALITY AND TRANSGRESSIVE AESTHETICS IN THE DE ORATORE ; 1. 'Writing' the Ideal Orator ; 2. Julius Caesar Strabo and Cicero's Self-Fashioning through Transgressive Aesthetics ; 3. Body and Style: Putting the Ideal Orator Together ; 3. THE BRUTUS: CICERO'S 'RHETORICAL' HISTORY ; 4. Caesarian Intertexts ; 5. History, Irony, and Autobiography in the Brutus ; 6. Varieties of Virtus: Brutus in the Brutus ; 4. THE ORATOR: FASHIONING A CICERONIAN SUBLIME ; 7. The Orator's Intellectual, Personal, and Political Contexts ; 8. Style and the Self, Text and the Body ; 9. Making Your Mark: Written Ingenium in the Brutus and the Orator ; Conclusion Cicero and Demosthenes in 'Longinus': The Ciceronian Sublime