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• catalog abstract "Latinity and Literary Society at Rome reaches back to the early Roman empire to examine attitudes toward Latinity, reviewing the contested origins of scholarly Latin in the polemical arena of Roman literature. W. Martin Bloomer shows how that literature's reflections on correct and incorrect speech functioned as part of a wider understanding of social relations and national identity in Rome. Bloomer's investigation begins with questions about the sociology of Latin literature - what interests were served by the creation of high style and how literary stylization constituted a system of social decorum - and goes on to offer readings of selected texts. Through studies of works ranging from Varro's De lingua latina to the verse fables of Augustus's freedman Phaedrus to the Annals of Tacitus, Bloomer examines conflicting claims to style not simply to set true Latin against vulgarism but also to ask who is excluding whom, why, and by what means. These texts exemplify the ways Roman literature employs representations of and reflections on proper and improper language to mirror the interests of specific groups who wished to maintain or establish their place in Roman society. They show how writers sought to influence the fundamental social issue of who had the power to confer legitimacy of speech and how their works used claims of linguistic propriety to reinforce the definition of "Romanness." Through Bloomer's study Latinity emerges as a contested field of identity and social polemic heretofore unrecognized in classical scholarship. With its fresh interpretations of major and minor texts, Latinity and Literary Society at Rome is a literary history that significantly advances our understanding of the place of language in ancient Rome.".
• catalog contributor b10233973.
• catalog coverage "Rome Civilization.".
• catalog created "1997.".
• catalog date "1997".
• catalog date "1997.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1997.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog description "Introduction: The Contested Ground of Latinitas -- 1. Literary Censors and Marble Latin -- 2. Latin Experts and Roman Masters -- 3. The Rhetoric of Freedmen: The Fables of Phaedrus -- 4. Declamatory Pleading: A New Literary History -- 5. The Imperial Mask of Rhetoric: Animus and Vultus in the Annals of Tacitus -- 6. The Rival in the Text -- Index of Passages.".
• catalog description "Latinity and Literary Society at Rome reaches back to the early Roman empire to examine attitudes toward Latinity, reviewing the contested origins of scholarly Latin in the polemical arena of Roman literature. W. Martin Bloomer shows how that literature's reflections on correct and incorrect speech functioned as part of a wider understanding of social relations and national identity in Rome. Bloomer's investigation begins with questions about the sociology of Latin literature - what interests were served by the creation of high style and how literary stylization constituted a system of social decorum - and goes on to offer readings of selected texts. Through studies of works ranging from Varro's De lingua latina to the verse fables of Augustus's freedman Phaedrus to the Annals of Tacitus, Bloomer examines conflicting claims to style not simply to set true Latin against vulgarism but also to ask who is excluding whom, why, and by what means.".
• catalog description "These texts exemplify the ways Roman literature employs representations of and reflections on proper and improper language to mirror the interests of specific groups who wished to maintain or establish their place in Roman society. They show how writers sought to influence the fundamental social issue of who had the power to confer legitimacy of speech and how their works used claims of linguistic propriety to reinforce the definition of "Romanness." Through Bloomer's study Latinity emerges as a contested field of identity and social polemic heretofore unrecognized in classical scholarship. With its fresh interpretations of major and minor texts, Latinity and Literary Society at Rome is a literary history that significantly advances our understanding of the place of language in ancient Rome.".
• catalog extent "327 p. ;".
• catalog hasFormat "Latinity and literary society at Rome.".
• catalog identifier "0812233905 (cloth : alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Latinity and literary society at Rome.".
• catalog issued "1997".
• catalog issued "1997.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,".
• catalog relation "Latinity and literary society at Rome.".
• catalog spatial "Rome Civilization.".
• catalog spatial "Rome.".
• catalog subject "870.9/001 21".
• catalog subject "Books and reading Rome.".
• catalog subject "Latin language Social aspects Rome.".
• catalog subject "Latin literature History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "Literature and society Rome.".
• catalog subject "PA6019 .B58 1997".
• catalog subject "Rhetoric, Ancient.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: The Contested Ground of Latinitas -- 1. Literary Censors and Marble Latin -- 2. Latin Experts and Roman Masters -- 3. The Rhetoric of Freedmen: The Fables of Phaedrus -- 4. Declamatory Pleading: A New Literary History -- 5. The Imperial Mask of Rhetoric: Animus and Vultus in the Annals of Tacitus -- 6. The Rival in the Text -- Index of Passages.".
• catalog title "Latinity and literary society at Rome / W. Martin Bloomer.".
• catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
• catalog type "text".