Exile, Horizons, and Poetic Language

Exile or banishment has long been a professional liability of intellectuals in many cultures. For practical consequences, it matters whether an offender is exiled to another polity, becoming subject to its laws, or banished to a marginal area of a single world empire. Within the Roman and Chinese Em...

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Published inSocial research Vol. 91; no. 2; pp. 663 - 686
Main Author Saussy, Haun
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Johns Hopkins University Press 01.06.2024
Subjects
Empires
Exile
Humanism
Language
Liability
Offenders
Political power
Said, Edward
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Tongue
France
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ISSN0037-783X
1944-768X
1944-768X
DOI10.1353/sor.2024.a930761

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Summary:Exile or banishment has long been a professional liability of intellectuals in many cultures. For practical consequences, it matters whether an offender is exiled to another polity, becoming subject to its laws, or banished to a marginal area of a single world empire. Within the Roman and Chinese Empires, banished poets narrate their predicament in ways that reflect not only their personal histories but also the resources of poetic language whereby disgraced and demoted writers can revise the judgments applied to them.
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ISSN:0037-783X
1944-768X
1944-768X
DOI:10.1353/sor.2024.a930761