The Semiotics of Caesar Augustus

The Semiotics of Caesar Augustus

 
Kiadó: Bloomsbury Academic
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ISBN13:9781350126671
ISBN10:1350126675
Kötéstípus:Puhakötés
Terjedelem:224 oldal
Méret:234x156 mm
Súly:313 g
Nyelv:angol
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Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, better known as Augustus, was the first Roman emperor and is one of the most iconic figures in world history. Two thousand years after his death, Augustus remains a strong presence in modern culture.

The Semiotics of Caesar Augustus examines the meanings and significances of Augustus in Western literary and popular culture, from the 1960s until the turn of the millennium. Drawing on the theoretical background of semiotics and classical reception studies, Elina Pyy investigates the representation of Augustus in the postmodern novels of Kurt Vonnegut and Christoph Ransmayr, as well as in the genre of historical fiction, and in screen representations from both sides of the Atlantic.

Scrutinizing what Caesar Augustus stood for in the postmodern world, and the main factors that influenced (and still influence) the modern reader's interpretation of him, this book is grounded on the premise that the past, being a system of signs based on our culturally shared understanding of them, is continuously created and reconstructed by the modern audience. Arguing that the 'many faces of the emperor' can be considered to be reactions to contemporary cultural, socio-political or emotional needs, The Semiotics of Caesar Augustus shows how his character was recurrently utilized to explain and understand the ways in which the discourses of power, liberty, oppression and humanity operated in the postmodern world.
Tartalomjegyzék:
1. Introduction: The Man, the Myth, the Legend
2. The many faces of Augustus: Appropriations of the Emperor Through the Ages
3. Pater patriae, pax Romana: Augustus and 'the End of History'
4. Augustus the Tyrant: Ancient History, Modern Anxieties
5. Comparative Voices: Augustus in Historical Fiction
6. Comparative Voices II: Augustus on Screen
7. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index