Editorial Bodies: Perfection and Rejection in Ancient Rhetoric and Poetics

by Michele Kennerly

Reveals the emergence and endurance of vocabularies, habits, and preferences that sustained ancient textual cultures

Though typically considered oral cultures, ancient Greece and Rome also boasted textual cultures, enabled by efforts to perfect, publish, and preserve both new and old writing. In Editorial Bodies, Michele Kennerly argues that such efforts were commonly articulated through the extended metaphor of the body. They...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611179106
• ISBN13: 9781611179101
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"