Writing Exile: The Discourse of Displacement in Greco-Roman Antiquity and Beyond

Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-90-04-15515-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 283, 292 Seiten, Format (B × H): 167 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 708 g

Reihe: Mnemosyne, Supplements

Exile and displacement are central topics in classical literature. Previous research has been mostly biographical and has focused on the three most prominent exiles: Cicero, Ovid, and Seneca. By shifting focus to a discourse of exile and displacement in early Greek poetry, Greek historiography, Cynicism, consolatory literature, Latin epic, Greek literature of the empire, and Medieval Latin literature, the present volume questions the notion of a distinct, psychologically conditioned ‘genre’ or ‘mode’ of exile literature. It shows how ancient and medieval authors perceive and present their exile according to pre-existent literary paradigms, style themselves or others as ‘typical’ exiles, and employ ‘exile’ as a powerful trope to express estrangement, elicit readerly sympathy, and question political power structures.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gaertner, Jan Felix

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Über Autor(innen)

Jan Felix Gaertner, D.Phil. (2002) in Classics, University of Oxford, is Assistant at the Institut für Klassische Philologie und Komparatistik, University of Leipzig. His publications include a commentary (with text and English translation) of Ovid, Epistulae ex Ponto 1 (Oxford, 2005).