Feminine Discourse in Roman Comedy : On Echoes and Voices (Oxford Studies in Classical Literature and Gender Theory)

Dutsch, Dorota M.

Oxford University Press（2008/08発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 304 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780199533381
• DDC分類 872.01093522

基本説明

This pioneering study applies modern discourse analysis to male and female speech in Roman comedy.

Full Description

This is an open access title. It is available to read and download as a free PDF version on Oxford Academic and is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.

As literature written in Latin has almost no female authors, we are dependent on male writers for some understanding of the way women would have spoken. Plautus (3rd to 2nd century BCE) and Terence (2nd century BCE) consistently write particular linguistic features into the lines spoken by their female characters: endearments, soft speech, and incoherent focus on numerous small problems. Dorota M. Dutsch describes the construction of this feminine idiom and asks whether it should be considered as evidence of how Roman women actually spoke.

Contents

1. Introduction ; 2. Plautus' Pharmacy ; 3. Of Pain and Laughter ; 4. (Wo)men of Bacchus ; 5. Father Tongue, Mother Tongue