Complex Inferiorities : The Poetics of the Weaker Voice in Latin Literature
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King's College London
- Unit of assessment
- 29 - Classics
- Output identifier
- 107883342
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- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780198814061
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- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Additional information
- This 2018 volume is a major output of my Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship (Oxford, 2012–15). My project—‘Beautiful Tyrants: Post-Colonial Reflections on Philhellenism in Rome and Germany’—examined the rhetorics of inferiority vis-à-vis classical Greece operative in these two cultures to shed light on three interrelated aspects: the discursive workings of philhellenism in two particular contexts, in general, and in comparison with certain post-colonial modes of negotiating cultural identities. During this project, I organized the seminar series ‘Encounters with the Other: Negotiations of Identity, Alterity, and Hybridity in Classical Literature’ (Corpus Christi College, Oxford, MT2013) which showed the phenomenon of the strategically adopted weaker voice to recur in multiple domains and especially in Latin literature. To explore this further, I organized an international conference with speakers from the UK, US, France, Italy, and Germany (Oxford, September 2014). On this basis, the volume was then developed over the course of four years. I acted as lead editor (indicated by first mention in the prelims, at the insistence of my co-editor, who provided advice on procedural matters and support with proof-reading). I worked closely with each contributor to tie together the thematic and conceptual threads running through the book. This involved working with authors in developing the individual chapters, suggesting revisions, integrating cross-references, ensuring stylistic and bibliographic consistency, translating/correcting English of international scholars, and preparing the bibliography (pp.263–88) and two indices (pp.307–19). My editorial contributions are often acknowledged by individual contributors (e.g. pp.161, 225, 230). I am sole author of the introductory chapter ‘Latin Literature’s Complex Inferiorities’ (pp.1–12), which lays out the interdisciplinary context for this book’s scholarly intervention and evidences my conceptual steer of the overall project; and of the chapter ‘How Do You Solve a Problem like Horace: On Roman Philhellenism and Post-Colonial Critique’ (pp.29–48).
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