The Rhetoric of Exile
Duress and the Imagining of Force
Vladimir Zorić
Click cover to enlarge Buy hardback at: Buy paperback at: Booksellers & libraries: | Studies In Comparative Literature 39 Legenda 19 December 2016 • 196pp ISBN: 978-1-910887-05-9 (hardback) • RRP £80, $110, €95 ISBN: 978-1-781883-48-8 (paperback, 30 September 2018) • RRP £10.99, $14.99, €13.49 ISBN: 978-1-781883-49-5 (JSTOR ebook) Access online: Books@JSTOR In addition to its original library hardback edition, this title is now on sale in the new student-priced Legenda paperback range. The Rhetoric of Exile explores the rhetorical construction of force in indirect exile and in literary responses to it. Between banishment, a compulsory exile, and expatriation, a voluntary one, many legal systems have allowed for a third model. Such an exile is pragmatic and ambiguous in nature: the degree of compulsion is never explicitly defined, but all agents involved understand that it is real. As far back as the Roman Republic, there have been exiles who felt considerable duress but could not pin it down to any specific legal document or judicial decision, and these victims of silent persecution are all the more likely to brood on the elusive force over them, and to recreate it by imaginative means. What is displaced and hidden in law – force as metonymy — returns as a potent and condensed image in literature — force as metaphor. Vladimir Zorić is Assistant Professor in Russian and Slavonic Studies at the University of Nottingham. Reviews:
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Bibliography entry: Zorić, Vladimir, The Rhetoric of Exile: Duress and the Imagining of Force, Studies In Comparative Literature, 39 (Legenda, 2016) First footnote reference: 35 Vladimir Zorić, The Rhetoric of Exile: Duress and the Imagining of Force, Studies In Comparative Literature, 39 (Legenda, 2016), p. 21. Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Zorić, p. 47. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) Bibliography entry: Zorić, Vladimir. 2016. The Rhetoric of Exile: Duress and the Imagining of Force, Studies In Comparative Literature, 39 (Legenda) Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (Zorić 2016: 21). Example footnote reference: 35 Zorić 2016: 21. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) This title is distributed on behalf of MHRA by Ingram’s. Booksellers and libraries can order direct from Ingram by setting up an ipage Account: click here for more. Permanent link to this title: www.mhra.org.uk/publications/Rhetoric-Exile www.mhra.org.uk/publications/sicl-39 |