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Irony and misreading in the Annals of Tacitus /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Irony and misreading in the Annals of Tacitus // Ellen O'Gorman.
remainder title:	Irony & Misreading in the Annals of Tacitus
Author:	O'Gorman, Ellen,
Description:	1 online resource (vii, 200 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Rhetoric, Ancient. -
Subject:	Rome - Civilization -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511482335
ISBN:	9780511482335 (ebook)

Irony and misreading in the Annals of Tacitus /
O'Gorman, Ellen,

Irony and misreading in the Annals of Tacitus /Irony & Misreading in the Annals of TacitusEllen O'Gorman. - 1 online resource (vii, 200 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

1. Introduction: irony, history, reading -- 2. Imperium sine fine: problems of definition in Annals I -- 3. Germanicus and the reader in the text -- 4. Reading Tiberius at face value -- 5. Obliteration and the literate emperor -- 6. The empress's plot -- 7. Ghostwriting the emperor Nero -- 8. Conclusion: the end of history.

This 2000 book examines Tacitus' Annals as an ironic portrayal of Julio-Claudian Rome, through close analysis of passages in which characters engage in interpretation and misreading. By representing the misreading of signifying systems - such as speech, gesture, writing, social structures and natural phenomena - Tacitus obliquely comments upon the perversion of Rome's republican structure in the new principate. Furthermore, this study argues that the distinctively obscure style of the Annals is used by Tacitus to draw his reader into the ambiguities and compromises of the political regime it represents. The strain on language and meaning both portrayed and enacted by the Annals in this way gives voice to a form of political protest to which the reader must respond in the course of interpreting the narrative.

ISBN: 9780511482335 (ebook)Subjects--Personal Names:

957521
Tacitus, Cornelius
--Criticism and interpretation.Subjects--Topical Terms:

560578
Rhetoric, Ancient.
Subjects--Geographical Terms:

555298
Rome
--Civilization

LC Class. No.: PA6705.A9 / O35 2000

Dewey Class. No.: 878/.0109

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