Displaced Persons: The Literature of Exile from Cicero to BoethiusExile is a political act, involving loss of power. Five authors, all exiled from Rome, are examined in this book, which analyses the literature of exile and takes its consideration through to the virtual end of the Classical era: the author examines the various means of literary sublimation that individual exiles - Cicero, Ovid, Seneca the Younger, Dio Chrysostom and Anicius Manlius Boethius - found for the feeling of social and political isolation that they experienced. |
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... literary - critical approach is largely conventional , with , however , eclectic attention to modern literary theory , particularly in analysis of narrative strategies employed by our various authors . The title I originally coined for ...
... literary - critical approach is largely conventional , with , however , eclectic attention to modern literary theory , particularly in analysis of narrative strategies employed by our various authors . The title I originally coined for ...
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... literary power . Cicero after his return from banishment in 58 BC was politically a spent force , but his literary works after his return comprise some of the most important aspects of his contribution to Western thought . After his ...
... literary power . Cicero after his return from banishment in 58 BC was politically a spent force , but his literary works after his return comprise some of the most important aspects of his contribution to Western thought . After his ...
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... literary representative of a ' silent majority ' , articulating the experiences , hopes , fears and longings of a large section of the Mediterranean world of his time . Exilic literature clothes psychologically similar content in a wide ...
... literary representative of a ' silent majority ' , articulating the experiences , hopes , fears and longings of a large section of the Mediterranean world of his time . Exilic literature clothes psychologically similar content in a wide ...
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Displaced Persons: The Literature of Exile from Cicero to Boethius Jo-Marie Claassen No preview available - 1999 |
Displaced Persons: The Literature of Exile from Cicero to Boethius Jo-Marie Claassen No preview available - 1999 |
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