{"product_id":"without-within-john-thomas-hamilton-9780674301276","title":"Without Within: Parenthetic Interferences in Reception History","description":"\u003cp\u003eClassical reception has always implied a \u003ci\u003eparenthetical\u003c\/i\u003e relationship insofar as Antiquity appears to be inserted into (\u003ci\u003een\u003c\/i\u003e) while remaining alongside (\u003ci\u003epara\u003c\/i\u003e) Modernity. As in any parenthetical statement, the ancient source can be said to be a part of and apart from modern revisions and reworkings, recontextualizations and reorientations, belonging to a present discourse by maintaining its status beyond it. Through this rhetorical figure, \u003ci\u003eWithout Within\u003c\/i\u003e broaches fresh questions and offers new lines of inquiry in the ever-growing and disparate field of Reception Studies, a field that itself continues to occupy an intriguingly ambivalent position within Classical Studies overall: simultaneously inside and outside, profane and sacred, an included exclusion. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs Quintilian defines it, a \u003ci\u003eparenthesis\u003c\/i\u003e is a figure of thought (\u003ci\u003efigura sententiae\u003c\/i\u003e) that occurs \"when some thought in the middle interrupts [\u003ci\u003eintervenit\u003c\/i\u003e] the continuation of a discourse\" (Inst. orat. 9, 3.23). In modern typography, this interruption or intervention is generally marked by brackets which introduce a further element of difference or heteronomy vis-à-vis the body of the text. As for specific cases of classical reception, a contrast is thereby staged between the essence of the ancient material and its modern purpose, between the \u003ci\u003ewhat-is\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003ewhat-for\u003c\/i\u003e. By investigating a series of exemplary instances of reception across several epochs, languages, and cultures, Hamilton aims to delineate and assess the varying contours of Antiquity's challenge to Modernity and vice versa. What strategies of inclusion and exclusion are operative, and how might they be evaluated? What are the theoretical implications of considering the received past as both external and internal to the present day? How might we qualify the disruption and\/or relevance of the past in modern contexts?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Thomas Hamilton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674301277\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674301276\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Alexandria Foundation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/09\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 186\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"John Thomas Hamilton","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47039735300351,"sku":"9780674301276","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_68e0ac44-f248-4d2b-9951-eea3c83eb87f.jpg?v=1752752410","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/without-within-john-thomas-hamilton-9780674301276","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}