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'For time is nothing / if not amenable': exemplarity, time, reception

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This article revisits exemplarity as a strategy of approaching, reading, and using the past. By going beyond treating it mostly as a historical phenomenon, in terms of its use as a purely pre-modern rhetorical trope connected to historical and ethical writings in the Greek and Roman world, I suggest that exemplarity has critical potential to make us reconsider its ability to break through temporalities in a calculated and sceptical way. As such, it offers a provocation to Reception Studies to engage with exemplarity both in and as a more deliberate and strategic manner.
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10.1093/crj/clz025

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
HUMS
Department:
Classics Faculty
Sub department:
Classical Languages & Lit
Oxford college:
Corpus Christi College
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Author
ORCID:
0000-0003-3461-4249


Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Journal:
Classical Receptions Journal More from this journal
Volume:
12
Issue:
1
Pages:
46–61
Publication date:
2020-01-03
Acceptance date:
2019-11-01
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EISSN:
1759-5142
ISSN:
1759-5134


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English
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pubs:1076050
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uuid:e703a36a-8790-4a8f-8671-5ad1b83f37ee
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1076050
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2019-12-03
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