30.4669, Books: The Semiotics of Caesar Augustus: Pyy

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Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2019 21:18:59
From: Lianna Iwanikiw [lianna.iwanikiw at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: The Semiotics of Caesar Augustus: Pyy

 


Title: The Semiotics of Caesar Augustus 
Series Title: Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (formerly The Continuum International Publishing Group)
	   http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
	

Book URL: https://www.bloomsbury.com/the-semiotics-of-caesar-augustus-9781350126671/ 


Author: Elina Pyy

Electronic: ISBN:  9781474277235 Pages: 224 Price: U.K. £ 31.31 Comment: ePUB
Electronic: ISBN:  9781474277259 Pages: 224 Price: U.K. £ 31.30 Comment: ePDF
Hardback: ISBN:  9781474277228 Pages: 224 Price: U.K. £ 95.00
Paperback: ISBN:  9781350126671 Pages: 224 Price: U.K. £ 28.99


Abstract:

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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Ling & Literature


Written In: English  (eng)

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