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Feminine Discourse in Roman Comedy

其他書名	On Echoes and Voices
出版	Oxford University Press, 2008
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=jRjfzQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋"Ancient scholiasts and modern scholars have long been aware of a specialized feminine vocabulary (terms of endearment, a special word for 'please', and interjections) used by the authors of Roman comedy. Dorota M. Dutsch investigates the cultural implications of these linguistic choices. Lexical mannerisms, it emerges, are only one manifestation of a larger tendency to portray women as disregarding interpersonal boundaries and moral principles in their attitudes towards others and themselves. Yet comedy also employs allegedly feminine features of speech as a means of undermining masculine identities and creating ambiguous figures, such as that of the comic lover. Conversely, masculine points of view are often grafted onto the speech of comedic women. Most comedic roles thus represent both the dominant cultural discourse (male) and the voices this discourse attempts to exclude (female). The tension between these voices, which constitutes an implicit theme in the first half of Dutsch's study, takes centre stage in the second half. This part of the book explores the interface between the feminine discourse of Roman comedy and other ancient perceptions concerning gender and speech. Contemporary Roman notions of gender and boundaries, and Plautus' use of bacchanalia as a metaphor for acting, are first brought into focus. The narrative then moves away from Plautus and Terence, to examine Greek and Roman assumptions about identity and language, and eventually proposes that the.