Powers of Expression, Expressions of Power
Subtitle: Speech Presentation and Latin Literature (Oxford Classical Monographs)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: February 14, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9780198152767
Subjects: Discourse analysis; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Special Subjects In Literature; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Ancient World; Roman Literature; Literary Criticism & Collections / Ancient & Classical; Ancient and Classical; Latin; History and criticism; Latin Literature; Oral communication in literatu; Power (Social sciences) in lit; Power (Social sciences) in literature; Speech in literature
Description: "Can a speaker's words ever be faithfully reported? History, ethnography, political theory, linguistics, and literary criticism all involve debates about discourse and representation. By drawing from Plato's theory of discourse, the lively analysis of speech representation in this book provides a coherent and original contribution to these debates, and highlights the problems involved when speech becomes both the object and the medium of narrative representation."--Jacket.