‘For Time is / nothing if not amenable’ — exemplarity, time, reception

Abstract

Abstract This article revisits exemplarity as a strategy of approaching, reading, and using the past. By going beyond treating it mostly as a historical phenomenon, in terms of its use as a purely pre-modern rhetorical trope connected to historical and ethical writings in the Greek and Roman world, I suggest that exemplarity has critical potential to make us reconsider its ability to break through temporalities in a calculated and sceptical way. As such, it offers a provocation to Reception Studies to engage with exemplarity both in and as a more deliberate and strategic manner.

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