Staging Masculinity: The Rhetoric of Performance in the Roman World (The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism)
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| Rating | : | 4.48 (681 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0472111396 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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. He is also the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rhetoric (2009). About the Author Erik Gunderson is Professor of Classics at the University of Toronto. His work spans languages, genres and eras, and he consistently brings to bear modern critical perspectives when exploring the ancient world. He is the author of four other scholarly monographs: Laughing Awry: Plautus and Tragicomedy (2014); Nox Philologiae: Aulus Gellius and the Fantasy of the Ancient Library (2009); Declamation, Paternity and Roman Identity: Authority and the Rhetorical Self (2003); and Staging Masculinity: The Rhetoric of Performance in the Roman World (2000)
Erik Gunderson is Professor of Classics at the University of Toronto. He is also the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rhetoric (2009). . His work spans languages, genres and eras, and he consistently brings to bear modern critical perspectives when exploring the ancient world. He is the author of four other schol
The ancient performer was supposed to be a "good man" and his performance a manifestation of an authentic and authoritative manliness. But how can the orator be distinguished from a mere actor? And what is the proper role for the body, given that it is a potential object of desire?Erik Gunderson explores these and other questions in ancient rhetorical theory using a variety of theoretical approaches, drawing in particular on the works of Judith Butler, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Lacan. His study examines the status of rhetorical theory qua theory, the production of a specific version of body in the course of its theoretical description, oratory as a form of self-mastery, the actor as the orator's despised double, the dangers of homoerotic pleasure, and Cicero's De Oratore, as what good theory and practice ought to look like.Erik Gunderson is Assistant Professor of Greek and Latin, Ohio State University.. Performance was one of the five canonical branches of oratory in the classical period, but it presents special problems that distinguish it from concerns such as composition and memory
A Customer said A Learned Gallimaufry of Psychoanalytic Scurrilousness. The author of this text has done his homework and seems to be adept with classical languages, postmodernism and psychoanalytic thought. Yet, there is just something disappointing about this work that purportedly advances our understanding of the role that the "good man" (vir bonus) plays in staging masculinity by means of elocutionary exercises.Gunderson says that the book is "about rhet. A Customer said Amazing. This book was not only extremely interesting. but also very infomative. Well worth reading.