Figurations of Caesar: Performative Writing in De Bello Catilinae, by Sallust, and Römische Geschichte, by Theodor Mommsen
By featuring the dictator Gaius Julius Caesar in their respective works, historians Theodor Mommsen and Gaius Salustius Crispus used this Roman personality to convey an ideological message that had concrete objectives in the extra-literary world of each period — the former in the German 19th century...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2024 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU) |
| Repositorio: | Letras & letras (Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.www.seer.ufu.br:article/73508 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://seer.ufu.br/index.php/letraseletras/article/view/73508 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Júlio César Personagem Performatividade Historiografia Narrativa Julius Caesar Character Performativity Historiography Narrative |
| Sumario: | By featuring the dictator Gaius Julius Caesar in their respective works, historians Theodor Mommsen and Gaius Salustius Crispus used this Roman personality to convey an ideological message that had concrete objectives in the extra-literary world of each period — the former in the German 19th century, the latter in the Rome of the civil wars. To do so, they had to re-enact the past, describing characters, distributing lines, constructing scenes, creating narrative tension and turning points, as if the reader had direct access to the events of the past as they were happening. As this article shows in its analysis of the narrative performativity of the historiographical text, the authors managed to unite the particularities of the Roman general with the diegetic needs of the plot created, transforming him into the synthesis of the values that their present had lost and that it needed to overcome the most immediate political impasses, that is, a society seen as decadent, with a degenerate elite dominating a state made up of corrupt institutions. |
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