Wit and the Writing of History: The Rhetoric of Historiography in Imperial RomeUniversity of Wisconsin Press, 1988 - 182 من الصفحات |
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... course of history would have been better if Nero's father had had such a wife . " Like Nixon's foreign policy tal- ents , Nero's marriage is potentially at once lie , truth , and joke . The historicity of much of this material is , of ...
... course of history would have been better if Nero's father had had such a wife . " Like Nixon's foreign policy tal- ents , Nero's marriage is potentially at once lie , truth , and joke . The historicity of much of this material is , of ...
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... course of history is this ongoing conflict between values on a large scale , an antithetic pattern of thought and language is itself an indis- pensable tool for historical insight because it answers to the texture of history itself ...
... course of history is this ongoing conflict between values on a large scale , an antithetic pattern of thought and language is itself an indis- pensable tool for historical insight because it answers to the texture of history itself ...
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... course , is a joke in the narrow sense of the word , yet Seneca's audience had cultivated an extraordinary sensitivity to the texture of language . To take one example , Quintilian's strange ( from a modern point of view ) remarks about ...
... course , is a joke in the narrow sense of the word , yet Seneca's audience had cultivated an extraordinary sensitivity to the texture of language . To take one example , Quintilian's strange ( from a modern point of view ) remarks about ...
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Ludibrium and Political Wit | 15 |
Techniques of Wit | 56 |
Enacted Wit | 69 |
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