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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... poet and suffering exile than I have so far postu- lated , but it cannot be excluded . The Ibis works as a projection by the creator - poet of the suffering - exile - as - poetic - persona , setting to verse his raging anger at an ...
... poet and suffering exile than I have so far postu- lated , but it cannot be excluded . The Ibis works as a projection by the creator - poet of the suffering - exile - as - poetic - persona , setting to verse his raging anger at an ...
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... poetic ' I ' , itself heavily allusive of poetic predecessors . The poet pretends that his ' poetic I ' is a spent force , but during the course of the poem the reader discovers that this is not so . Yet Green's metrics , by ignoring ...
... poetic ' I ' , itself heavily allusive of poetic predecessors . The poet pretends that his ' poetic I ' is a spent force , but during the course of the poem the reader discovers that this is not so . Yet Green's metrics , by ignoring ...
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... poetic prose , is prominent , but so is a wide range of ancient philosophers and the pagan poets.69 In his choice of the Menippean form and in his adept versification , Boethius appears to take a conscious stand against Augustine , but ...
... poetic prose , is prominent , but so is a wide range of ancient philosophers and the pagan poets.69 In his choice of the Menippean form and in his adept versification , Boethius appears to take a conscious stand against Augustine , but ...
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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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