The Insult Market in Rome. Insults and Insults in Latin Literature.
Harmattan| N° d'inventaire | 16808 |
| Format | |
| Détails | 476 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2013 |
| Etat | Nine |
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The author has here exploited the immense deposit of 45,000 occurrences of the 1,400 declinable terms selected from 120 texts by 50 writers, spread over 8 centuries, with lexicographical computer software. Here is an analysis of the functions and roles of these terms and a reflection on the relationships that insults have with theater, poetry, rhetoric, eloquence, and polemics.
The author has here exploited the immense deposit of 45,000 occurrences of the 1,400 declinable terms selected from 120 texts by 50 writers, spread over 8 centuries, with lexicographical computer software. Here is an analysis of the functions and roles of these terms and a reflection on the relationships that insults have with theater, poetry, rhetoric, eloquence, and polemics.