Acting with Words

Communication, Rhetorical Performance and Performative Acts in Latin Literature. Edited by Therese Fuhrer and Damien Nelis.

This volume brings together a series of essays illustrating different aspects of the study of representations of speech in narrative texts in a number of different genres. Approaching ancient texts in ways which intersect with a number of areas in which much research has been done in recent years, this collection makes it possible to look anew at the ways in which speech representation interacts with and plays an important role in constructions of power and authority in literary texts, the relationship between literature and political and broader cultural ideologies, and the connections between speech acts and intertextuality. It includes ten essays (four in English, three in German and three in French) by Alexander Arweiler, Valéry Berlincourt, Therese Fuhrer, Lavinia Galli-Milic, Christina Kraus, Roland Mayer, Melanie Möller, Damien Nelis, Loreto Nunez, and Thomas Schirren. 257 Seiten, gebunden (Bibliothek der klassischen Altertumswissenschaften. Neue Folge, Reihe 2; Vol. 125/Universitätsverlag Winter 2010) leichte Lagerspuren/minor shelfwear