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Slavery and the Roman Literary Imagination

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Paperback, 142 blz. | Engels
Cambridge University Press | e druk, 2000
ISBN13: 9780521779692
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Cambridge University Press e druk, 2000 9780521779692
Onderdeel van serie Roman Literature and
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This book explores the presence of slaves and slavery in Roman literature and asks particularly what the free imagination made of the experience of living with slaves, beings who both were and were not fellow humans. As a shadow humanity, slaves furnished the free with other selves and imaginative alibis as well as mediators between and substitutes for their peers. As presences that witnessed their owners' most unguarded moments they possessed a knowledge that was the object of both curiosity and anxiety. The book discusses not only the ideological relations of Roman literature to the institution of slavery, but also the ways in which slavery provided a metaphor for a range of other relationships and experiences, and in particular for literature itself. It is arranged thematically and covers a broad chronological and generic field.

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ISBN13:9780521779692
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Paperback
Aantal pagina's:142

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Introduction; 1. The other self: proximity and symbiosis; 2. Punishment: license, (self-) control and fantasy; 3. Slaves between the free; 4. Slavery and the continuum of (servile) relationships; 5. Enslavement and metamorphosis; Epilogue.

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