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  • Evoking the Dead
    W Martin Bloomer
    How Romans built their past--and made it speak.During the turbulent transition from Republic to Empire, Romans became intensely preoccupied with their own past. In Evoking the Dead, W. Martin Bloomer examines how memory was constructed, organized, and put to work in this moment of political uncertainty--and how literature became one of its most powerful instruments.Bloomer focu...
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  • Valerius Maximus and the Rhetoric of the New Nobility
    W. Martin Bloomer / WMartin Bloomer
    Throughout the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Valerius Maximus’s Memorable Deeds and Sayings was the most widely read prose after the Bible. Bloomer revives this classic text to examine how, why, and for whom Valerius composed this collection of rhetorical examples. He argues that the work expresses the concerns and anxieties of literate first-century Romans and shows that i...
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  • Contest of Language
    W. Martin Bloomer
    These essays, written by eminent scholars from diverse disciplines and perspectives, consider various present-day and historical efforts to make a language dominant through textual, institutional, academic, and literary means. ...
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