Verfasst von:	Geue, Tom [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	Author unknown
Titelzusatz:	the power of anonymity in ancient Rome
Verf.angabe:	Tom Geue
Verlagsort:	Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England
Verlag:	Harvard University Press
Jahr:	2019
Umfang:	vii, 361 Seiten
Fussnoten:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-351) and index
ISBN:	978-0-674-98820-0
	0-674-98820-5
Abstract:	"An exploration of the darker corners of ancient Rome to spotlight the strange sorcery of anonymous literature. From Banksy to Elena Ferrante to the unattributed parchments of ancient Rome, art without clear authorship fascinates and even offends us. Classical scholarship tends to treat this anonymity as a problem or game--a defect to be repaired or mystery to be solved. Author Unknown is the first book to consider anonymity as a site of literary interest rather than a gap that needs filling. We can tether each work to an identity, or we can stand back and ask how the absence of a name affects the meaning and experience of literature. Tom Geue turns to antiquity to show what the suppression or loss of a name can do for literature. Anonymity supported the illusion of Augustus's sprawling puppet mastery (Res Gestae), controlled and destroyed the victims of a curse (Ovid's Ibis), and created out of whole cloth a poetic person and career (Phaedrus's Fables). To assume these texts are missing something is to dismiss a source of their power and presume that ancient authors were as hungry for fame as today's. In this original look at Latin literature, Geue asks us to work with anonymity rather than against it and to appreciate the continuing power of anonymity in our own time"--
URL:	Inhaltsverzeichnis: https://swbplus.bsz-bw.de/bsz1671334248inh.htm
	Rezension: http://www.sehepunkte.de/2021/02/33560.html
Schlagwörter:	(g)Römisches Reich    / (s)Schrifttum    / (s)Anonymität
	(g)Römisches Reich    / (s)Latein    / (s)Literatur    / (s)Autor    / (s)Anonymität
Sprache:	eng
Bibliogr. Hinweis:	Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Geue, Tom: Author unknown. - Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2019. - 1 Online-Ressource (vii, 361 Seiten)
RVK-Notation:	FT 12500
	NH 8575
K10plus-PPN:	1671334248