D. M. Dutsch, Feminine Discourse in Roman Comedy: On Echoes and Voices

Dorota M. Dutsch, Feminine Discourse in Roman Comedy: On Echoes and Voices, Oxford/New York:  Oxford University Press, coll. "Oxford Studies in Classical Literature and Gender Theory", 2008. xiii, 278 pages. ISBN 9780199533381 $110.00 Recension par Anise K. Strong (Stanford Universit) dans Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2009.04.37.

Présentation de l'éditeur:

As literature written in Latin has almost no female authors, we are dependent on male writers for some understanding of the way women would have spoken. Plautus (3rd to 2nd century BCE) and Terence (2nd century BCE) consistently write particular linguistic features into the lines spoken by their female characters: endearments, soft speech, and incoherent focus on numerous small problems. Dorota M. Dutsch describes the construction of this feminine idiom and asks whether it should be considered as evidence of how Roman women actually spoke.

Dorota M. Dutsch is Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics, University of California, Santa Barbara.

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