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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.
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Ancient Rhetoric, Classic Literature, Fiction, Historiography, History, Irony, Rhetoric, Ancient, Technique, Latin literature, history and criticism, Critique, Rhétorique ancienne, Ironie, Historiographie, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY, Latin, Annales (Tacitus), Misvattingen, Interpretation, Kritik, Sprache, Rhétorique antique, Ironie (rhétorique), Dans la littérature, Annales (Tacitus, Cornelius), AnnalesPeople
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Irony and Misreading in the Annals of Tacitus
2009, Cambridge University Press
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Irony and Misreading in the Annals of Tacitus
December 14, 2006, Cambridge University Press
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Irony and Misreading in the Annals of Tacitus
2000, Cambridge University Press
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Irony and misreading in the Annals of Tacitus
2000, Cambridge University Press
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0521660564 9780521660563
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Irony and Misreading in the Annals of Tacitus
2000, Cambridge University Press
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 184-192) and indexes.
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"Tacitus is a notoriously difficult writer; the central theme of this study is what the difficulty of Tacitus means and what are the possible ways a reader can respond to this difficulty."
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