Controlling Laughter: Political Humor in the Late Roman Republic Tapa dura - 1996

Princeton University Press. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Princeton University Press, 1996. Hard cover. Very good/Good. Jacket spine is lightly sunned. Jacket cover is slightly worn. Spine is shaken, but secure. Inside is clean and unmarked.

Princeton University Press, 1996-08-05. Hardcover. Used:Good.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. First edition. Near Fine/very good +. Black cloth boards in dust jacket, 251pp.

New Haven: Princeton University Press, 1996. First printing. Hardcover. pp. 251. 8vo. Gray cloth boards with silver lettering to spine. Small ink name to corner of ffep otherwise clean and unmarked with tight, sound binding; near fine in near fine dustjacket.

Princeton University Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1996. Hardcover. 0691027390 . Book is fine. DJ has very light shelfwear. ; 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… Leer más

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