Poets and Orators in Antiquity. Reciprocal Staging. ERGA Collection 13.
| N° d'inventaire | 17627 |
| Format | 16 x 24 |
| Détails | 486 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Clermont-Ferrand, 2013 |
| Etat | Nine |
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The collective reflection proposed in this volume focuses on a very specific aspect of the relationship between poetry and rhetoric in Greek and Roman Antiquity: the view taken by the representatives of each of these two fields of thought and writing on those of the other field. When, how, and why, in their works, do the great poets portray the figure of the orator? Conversely, what are the modes of appearance of poets among the great orators and/or theorists of the art of oratory? It is this interplay of crossed portraits that interests us: always oriented and subjective, they show us that these two universes, at once rival and organically linked, constitute for each other a prism rather than a mirror. Describing the orator when one is a poet, or the poet when one devotes one's life to the art of oratory, inevitably leads to transforming him, or even recreating him. In doing so, to stage the "other", whether to express the admiration one has for him, to distance oneself from him or to criticize him directly, always amounts to speaking, indirectly or explicitly, of one's own discipline, or even of one's own vocation. The study of this reciprocal refraction, considered in all the variety of its motivations, its achievements and its implications (intellectual and aesthetic, but also, very often, philosophical, political, pedagogical, etc.), seems to us to be able to shed new light on a fundamental aspect of ancient culture, the fertile tension between poetry and rhetoric, and on some of the greatest men who contributed to forging this culture.
The collective reflection proposed in this volume focuses on a very specific aspect of the relationship between poetry and rhetoric in Greek and Roman Antiquity: the view taken by the representatives of each of these two fields of thought and writing on those of the other field. When, how, and why, in their works, do the great poets portray the figure of the orator? Conversely, what are the modes of appearance of poets among the great orators and/or theorists of the art of oratory? It is this interplay of crossed portraits that interests us: always oriented and subjective, they show us that these two universes, at once rival and organically linked, constitute for each other a prism rather than a mirror. Describing the orator when one is a poet, or the poet when one devotes one's life to the art of oratory, inevitably leads to transforming him, or even recreating him. In doing so, to stage the "other", whether to express the admiration one has for him, to distance oneself from him or to criticize him directly, always amounts to speaking, indirectly or explicitly, of one's own discipline, or even of one's own vocation. The study of this reciprocal refraction, considered in all the variety of its motivations, its achievements and its implications (intellectual and aesthetic, but also, very often, philosophical, political, pedagogical, etc.), seems to us to be able to shed new light on a fundamental aspect of ancient culture, the fertile tension between poetry and rhetoric, and on some of the greatest men who contributed to forging this culture.