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Author Oliensis, Ellen.

Title Horace and the rhetoric of authority / Ellen Oliensis
Published Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 241 pages)
Contents Face-saving and self-defacement in the Satires -- Making faces at the mirror: the Epodes and the civil war -- Acts of enclosure: the ideology of form in the Odes -- Overreading the Epistles -- The art of self-fashioning in the Ars poetica
Summary This book explores how Horace's poems construct the literary and social authority of their author. Bridging the traditional distinction between 'persona' and 'author', Ellen Oliensis considers Horace's poetry as one dimension of his 'face' - the projected self-image that is the basic currency of social interactions. She reads Horace's poems not only as works of art but also as social acts of face-saving, face-making and self-effacement. These acts are responsive, she suggests, to the pressure of several audiences: Horace shapes his poetry to promote his authority and to pay deference to his patrons while taking account of the envy of contemporaries and the judgement of posterity. Drawing on the insights of sociolinguistics, deconstruction and new historicism Dr Oliensis charts the poet's shifting strategies of authority and deference across his entire literary career
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-237) and index
Notes English
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Subject Horace -- Technique
Horace
Horace, (0065-0008 av. J.-C.) -- Technique.
Latin language -- Social aspects
Literature and society -- Rome
Authors and patrons -- Rome
Authors and readers -- Rome
Authority in literature.
Persona (Literature)
Rhetoric, Ancient.
Authors and patrons -- Rome -- History
Authors and readers -- Rome -- History
TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
Authority in literature
Authors and patrons
Authors and readers
Latin language -- Social aspects
Literature and society
Persona (Literature)
Rhetoric, Ancient
Technique
Zelfpresentatie.
Retorica.
Gedichten.
Latijn.
Littérature et société -- Rome -- Histoire.
Autorité -- Dans la littérature.
Rhétorique antique.
Persona (littérature)
Rome (Empire)
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Persona (Literature)
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0511006233
9780511006234
0511582870
9780511582875