Poetry and Bondage

Brady, Andrea

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Rush Job: Slavery and Brevity in the Early Roman Principate

Geue

2022

Camb. class. j.

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The upswing in brief forms of literature in the early Roman principate is marked. From Ovid to Velleius Paterculus, Phaedrus to Valerius Maximus, this aesthetic trend seems to transcend genre. Such a phenomenon has thus far been understood as arising from either the pressures of literary tradition or the transformations in the organisation of elite knowledge. This article disagrees. It posits a new prospective causality behind the eruption in brevity, namely the state of slavery and its time-conscious way of being in the world. The article performs a close comparative reading of Phaedrus’ Fables alongside Velleius Paterculus’ Compendium of Roman History to show how brevity and its suspension can be understood as formal constraints, acts of service and redemptive aesthetic coping modes – all determined by the historical conditions of enslavement. It concludes with a coda on the general association of poetry with bondage and constraint in the late Republic and early Empire.

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“…105For a politically committed attempt to separate constraint as metaphor from the historical reality of slavery, and to see how poetry actually written in bondage changes our sense of this metaphor, see Brady (2021). …”

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Rush Job: Slavery and Brevity in the Early Roman Principate

Geue

2022

Camb. class. j.

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The Politics of Hunting: An Aristotelian Reading of Edmund Spenser’s Amoretti 67

Addis

2024

Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature

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Radical Tenderness

Brady

2024

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Radical Tenderness argues for the importance of poetry in negotiating political and social catastrophes, through a focus on the unusual intimacies of committed writing. How do poets negotiate between the personal and the public, the bedroom and the street, the family and class or communal ties? How does contemporary lyric, with its emphasis on the feelings and perceptions of the individual subject, speak to moments of shared crisis? What can poetry tell us about how care shapes our experiences of history? How do the intimacies found in protest, on strike, in riots, and in spaces of oppression, transform individual lives and political movements? Through a series of focussed readings of four twenty-first century poets - Caleb Femi, Bhanu Kapil, Juliana Spahr and Anne Boyer - Radical Tenderness reflects the perspectives provided by intimate poetries on the shared political emergencies of poverty, war, ecological catastrophe, racism, and illness.

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Poetry and Bondage

Cited by 25 publications

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Rush Job: Slavery and Brevity in the Early Roman Principate

Rush Job: Slavery and Brevity in the Early Roman Principate

The Politics of Hunting: An Aristotelian Reading of Edmund Spenser’s Amoretti 67

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