Backwards in high heels: Detecting Epistolary Unfriendliness Across the Abyss of Time
This paper concerns itself with unfriendliness, an attitude rather than an emotion, and whether it can be detected in ancient correspondence. After discussing various other philologically detectable tells for authorial attitude or identity in modern contexts, it turns to a few examples from Late Ant...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2018
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Zeitschrift für antikes Christentum
Year: 2018, Volume: 22, Issue: 1, Pages: 50-70 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Augustinus, Aurelius, Saint 354-430, Epistulae
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B Augustinus, Aurelius, Saint 354-430, Caeciliano Augustinus |
| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity |
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Marcellinus
Augustine
Epistula 151
tone
mood
unfriendliness
emotion
Ancient Epistolography
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Volltext (Verlag) |
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| Summary: | This paper concerns itself with unfriendliness, an attitude rather than an emotion, and whether it can be detected in ancient correspondence. After discussing various other philologically detectable tells for authorial attitude or identity in modern contexts, it turns to a few examples from Late Antique correspondence (Augustine, Ruricius, Avitus). It ends with an extended linear reading of Augustine, Epistula 151 to Caecilianus on the execution of Marcellinus and Apringius, highlighting two techniques that are christened outsourcing and basso ostinato. The letter emerges, polite fancy-dress notwithstanding, as a paranoid-making, reproachful, and quite unfriendly letter. |
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| ISSN: | 1612-961X |
| Contains: | In: Zeitschrift für antikes Christentum
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/zac-2018-0013 |