EAN: 9783111536743

THE GENDERED I IN ANCIENT LITERATURE KARTONIERT...

Considering the ubiquity of rhetorical training in antiquity  the volume starts from the
premise that every first-person statement in ancient literature is in some way rhetorically
modelled and aesthetically shaped. Focusing on different types of Greek and Latin literature 
poetry and prose  from the Archaic Age to Late Antiquity  the contributions analyse the use and
modelling of gender-specific elements in different types of first-person speech  be it that the
speaker is (represented as) the author of a work  be it that they feature as characters in the
work  narrating their own story or that of others. In doing so  they do not only offer new
insights into the rhetorical strategies and literary techniques used to construct a gendered
'I' in ancient literature. They also address the form and function of first-person discourse in
classical literature in general  touching on fields of research that have increasingly come
into focus in recent years  such as authorship studies  studies concerning the ancient
notion(s) of the literary persona  as well as a historical narratology that discusses concepts
such as the narrator or the literary character in ancient literary theory and practice.

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