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- catalog abstract ""This 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."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11569318.
- catalog coverage "Rome Historiography.".
- catalog coverage "Rome History Julio-Claudians, 30 B.C.-68 A.D. Historiography.".
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""This 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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
- catalog extent "vii, 200 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Irony and misreading in the Annals of Tacitus.".
- catalog identifier "0521660564 (hb)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Irony and misreading in the Annals of Tacitus.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog relation "Irony and misreading in the Annals of Tacitus.".
- catalog spatial "Rome Historiography.".
- catalog spatial "Rome History Julio-Claudians, 30 B.C.-68 A.D. Historiography.".
- catalog subject "878/.0109 21".
- catalog subject "Irony.".
- catalog subject "PA6705.A9 O35 1999".
- catalog subject "Rhetoric, Ancient.".
- catalog subject "Tacitus, Cornelius Technique.".
- catalog subject "Tacitus, Cornelius. Annales.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Irony and misreading in the Annals of Tacitus / Ellen O'Gorman.".
- catalog type "text".