... The Flesh of Words power bourgeois culture class migration consumerist culture Irving Henry Lemaître Frédérick objects as language Roth Philip Balzac Honoré de narrative parody of mastery Treharne Mark artisanship ventriloquizing La Revue des Deux Mondes history events as recitation...

... of the recitationes of Maternus in Tacitus' Dialogus, I need to offer something in its place. Here too there is evidence, if one is prepared to look for it, which shows authors continuing to write for stage performance throughout the early principate. Ovid counters Augustus' charge...