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A carregar... Comic invective in ancient Greek and Roman oratorypor Sophia Papaioannou (Editor), Andreas Serafim (Editor)
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The title of this volume promises to address what appears to be a reasonably straightforward and easily circumscribed topic, but in the end its thirteen essays on comic invective in Greco-Roman oratory show just how complex the task is. As these essays make clear, there is nothing at all straightforward about the isolated terms “comic” and “invective”, and the conjoined phrase “comic invective” presents even more practical and conceptual dilemmas. For starters, is “comic” invective a special kind of invective, or is all invective at some level comic? Is it possible for there to be invective that is not intended to elicit laughter in any sense, a humorless kind of insult and vituperation? Does “comic invective” as it is used in this study mean that when it is deployed in oratory, it self-consciously draws on examples from comic literary and/or performative genres (Greek comedy in the fifth and fourth centuries, for example, or Greek and Roman comedy in Roman oratory)? There is a vast divide between the frenetic invective exchanges of the Paphlagonian and Sausage-seller in Aristophanes’ Knights and Demosthenes or Cicero insulting their opponents in forensic contexts. These examples are performative in one sense or another, but, as Stephen Halliwell discussed in a foundational article about the “uses of laughter” in Greek culture (“The Uses of Laughter in Greek Comedy,” CQ 1991, appropriately cited throughout this volume), the laughter intended to be generated by both Greek and Roman authors can be plotted along a spectrum from unalloyed play on one end to pretensions of seriousness at the other. This means, then, that if an ancient audience wanted to calibrate just how comic an instance of rhetorical invective was, they had to be well-attuned to both the subtleties of contemporary politics (which tend to operate in modes of seriousness) and dynamics of comic literature (which operates largely within a world of play). As these essays admirably demonstrate—and to borrow an apt metaphor from Kostas Apostolakis’ chapter on “Comic Invective and Public Speech in Fourth-Century Athens”—rhetorical and comic invective “share weapons from the same arsenal” (61). Pertence à Série da Editora
This volume acknowledges the centrality of comic invective in a range of oratorical institutions (especially forensic and symbouleutic), and aspires to enhance the knowledge and understanding of how this technique is used in such con-texts of both Greek and Roman oratory. Despite the important scholarly work that has been done in discussing the patterns of using invective in Greek and Roman texts and contexts, there are still notable gaps in our knowledge of the issue. The introduction to, and the twelve chapters of, this volume address some understudied multi-genre and interdisciplinary topics: first, the ways in which comic invective in oratory draws on, or has implications for, comedy and other genres, or how these literary genres are influenced by oratorical theory and practice, and by contemporary socio-political circumstances, in articulating comic invective and targeting prominent individuals; second, how comic invective sustains relationships and promotes persuasion through unity and division; third, how it connects with sexuality, the human body and male/female physiology; fourth, what impact generic dichotomies, as, for example, public-private and defence-prosecution, may have upon using comic invective; and fifth, what the limitations in its use are, depending on the codes of honour and decency in ancient Greece and Rome. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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