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Author : Tom Geue
Release : 2017-11-23
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 349/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Juvenal and the Poetics of Anonymity by : Tom Geue
Download or read book Juvenal and the Poetics of Anonymity written by Tom Geue. This book was released on 2017-11-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that Juvenal actively concealed his own authorship from his Satires in response to a dangerous political climate.
Author : Tom Geue
Release : 2017-11-23
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 667/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Juvenal and the Poetics of Anonymity by : Tom Geue
Download or read book Juvenal and the Poetics of Anonymity written by Tom Geue. This book was released on 2017-11-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The satirist Juvenal remains one of antiquity's greatest question marks. His Satires entered the mainstream of the classical tradition with nothing more than an uncertain name and a dubious biography to recommend them. Tom Geue argues that the missing author figure is no mere casualty of time's passage, but a startling, concerted effect of the Satires themselves. Scribbling dangerous social critique under a historical maximum of paranoia, Juvenal harnessed this dark energy by wiping all traces of himself - signature, body, biographical snippets, social connections - from his reticent texts. This last major ambassador of a once self-betraying genre took a radical leap into the anonymous. Juvenal and the Poetics of Anonymity tracks this mystifying self-concealment over the whole Juvenalian corpus. Through probing close readings, it shows how important the missing author was to this satire, and how that absence echoes and amplifies the neurotic politics of writing under surveillance.
Author : Tom Alexander Geue
Release : 2012
Genre : Satire, Latin
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Book Synopsis Satirist Without Qualities by : Tom Alexander Geue
Download or read book Satirist Without Qualities written by Tom Alexander Geue. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis re-examines the imperial poet Juvenal. It focusses on what seems to me (against common opinion) the major technique through which Juvenal builds a safety cushion in a dangerous political climate: his complete extraction of himself from his poetry. Years of persona criticism controlled this innovation by searching to reconstruct a rhetorical mask. In contrast, this thesis aims to restore sensitivity to authorial self-concealment. I explain it as a strategy of coping with an adverse political situation. Juvenal retires from his poetry to generalise its force as much as possible, and deflect anyone from tracing it back to him.
Author : Tom Geue
Release : 2019
Genre : Anonymous writings, Latin
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Book Rating : 205/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Author Unknown by : Tom Geue
Download or read book Author Unknown written by Tom Geue. This book was released on 2019. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classical scholarship tends to treat anonymous authorship as a problem or game--a defect to be repaired or mystery to be solved. But anonymity can be a source of meaning unto itself, rather than a gap that needs filling. Tom Geue's close readings of Latin texts show what the suppression or loss of a name can do for literature.
Author : Chiara Sulprizio
Release : 2020-02-27
Genre : Foreign Language Study
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Book Synopsis Gender and Sexuality in Juvenal's Rome by : Chiara Sulprizio
Download or read book Gender and Sexuality in Juvenal's Rome written by Chiara Sulprizio. This book was released on 2020-02-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poet Juvenal is one of the most important ancient Roman authors, and his sixteen satires have left a strong mark on western literature. Despite his great influence, little is known about the poet’s life, beyond unreliable details gleaned from his poetry. Yet Juvenal’s satires contain a wealth of information about the mentality of imperial-era Romans. This volume offers a fresh and student-friendly translation of two of Juvenal’s most provocative poems: Satire 2 and Satire 6. With their common focus on gender and sexuality, these two works are of particular interest to today’s readers. Both Satire 2 and Satire 6 target effeminate men and wayward women as objects of ridicule, and they ruthlessly mock their behavior in an effort to expose deep-seated problems in Roman society. The longer of the two works, Juvenal’s sixth satire, addresses a basic question, “Why get married?,” in a tone of spite and ferocity, and its details are disturbingly graphic. Satire 2 is a shorter but equally pointed tirade against effeminacy and passive homosexuality. Taken together, the poems compel readers to critique the discourse of gender stereotypes and misogyny. For students and scholars of gender and sexuality, these poems are crucial texts. Chiara Sulprizio’s lively translation, perfectly suited for classroom use, captures the vivid spirit of Juvenal’s poems, and her extensive notes enhance the volume’s appeal by explicating the poems from a gendered perspective. An in-depth introduction by Sarah H. Blake places the satires within their broader literary, historical, and cultural context.
