Controlling Laughter : : Political Humor in the Late Roman Republic / / Anthony Corbeill.
Although numerous scholars have studied Late Republican humor, this is the first book to examine its social and political context. Anthony Corbeill maintains that political abuse exercised real powers of persuasion over Roman audiences and he demonstrates how public humor both creates and enforces a...
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Corbeill, Anthony, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Controlling Laughter : Political Humor in the Late Roman Republic / Anthony Corbeill. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2015] ©1996 1 online resource (266 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Princeton Legacy Library ; 1739 Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Physical Peculiarities -- Chapter 2. Names and Cognomina -- Chapter 3. Moral Appearance in Action: Mouths -- Chapter 4. Moral Appearance in Action: Mouths -- Chapter 5. A Political History o f Wit -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX LOCORUM ET IOCORUM -- GENERAL INDEX -- Backmatter restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Although numerous scholars have studied Late Republican humor, this is the first book to examine its social and political context. Anthony Corbeill maintains that political abuse exercised real powers of persuasion over Roman audiences and he demonstrates how public humor both creates and enforces a society's norms.Previous scholarship has offered two explanations for why abusive language proliferated in Roman oratory. The first asserts that public rhetoric, filled with extravagant lies, was unconstrained by strictures of propriety. The second contends that invective represents an artifice borrowed from the Greeks. After a fresh reading of all extant literary works from the period, Corbeill concludes that the topics exploited in political invective arise from biases already present in Roman society. The author assesses evidence outside political discourse-from prayer ritual to philosophical speculation to physiognomic texts-in order to locate independently the biases in Roman society that enabled an orator's jokes to persuade. Within each instance of abusive humor-a name pun, for example, or the mockery of a physical deformity-resided values and preconceptions that were essential to the way a Roman citizen of the Late Republic defined himself in relation to his community.Originally published in 1996.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Political ethics Rome. Political oratory Rome. Politics and culture Rome. Wit and humor Social aspects. HISTORY / Ancient / Rome. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 9783110413441 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Library eBook Package World History 9783110413663 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 9783110442496 print 9780691602233 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400872893 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400872893 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400872893.jpg |
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