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The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire

2005-05-12 History
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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire by : Kirk Freudenburg

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire written by Kirk Freudenburg. This book was released on 2005-05-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Satire as a distinct genre of writing was first developed by the Romans in the second century BCE. Regarded by them as uniquely 'their own', satire held a special place in the Roman imagination as the one genre that could address the problems of city life from the perspective of a 'real Roman'. In this Cambridge Companion an international team of scholars provides a stimulating introduction to Roman satire's core practitioners and practices, placing them within the contexts of Greco-Roman literary and political history. Besides addressing basic questions of authors, content, and form, the volume looks to the question of what satire 'does' within the world of Greco-Roman social exchanges, and goes on to treat the genre's further development, reception, and translation in Elizabethan England and beyond. Included are studies of the prosimetric, 'Menippean' satires that would become the models of Rabelais, Erasmus, More, and (narrative satire's crowning jewel) Swift.

Satires of Rome

2001-10-25 History
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Release : 2001-10-25
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Book Synopsis Satires of Rome by : Kirk Freudenburg

Download or read book Satires of Rome written by Kirk Freudenburg. This book was released on 2001-10-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first complete study of Roman verse satire to appear since 1976 provides a fresh and exciting survey of the field. Rather than describing satire's history as a series of discrete achievements, it relates those achievements to one another in such a way that, in the movement from Lucilius, to Horace, to Persius, to Juvenal, we are made to sense, and see performed, the increasing pressure of imperial oversight in ancient Rome.

A Companion to Satire

2008-04-15 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2008-04-15
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis A Companion to Satire by : Ruben Quintero

Download or read book A Companion to Satire written by Ruben Quintero. This book was released on 2008-04-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of twenty-nine original essays, surveys satire fromits emergence in Western literature to the present. Tracks satire from its first appearances in the prophetic booksof the Old Testament through the Renaissance and the Englishtradition in satire to Michael Moore’s satirical movieFahrenheit 9/11. Highlights the important influence of the Bible in the literaryand cultural development of Western satire. Focused mainly on major classical and European influences onand works of English satire, but also explores the complex andfertile cultural cross-semination within the tradition of literarysatire.

Roman Satire and the Old Comic Tradition

2015-02-26 History
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Release : 2015-02-26
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Book Synopsis Roman Satire and the Old Comic Tradition by : Jennifer L. Ferriss-Hill

Download or read book Roman Satire and the Old Comic Tradition written by Jennifer L. Ferriss-Hill. This book was released on 2015-02-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quintilian famously claimed that satire was tota nostra, or totally ours, but this innovative volume demonstrates that many of Roman satire's most distinctive characteristics derived from ancient Greek Old Comedy. Jennifer L. Ferriss-Hill analyzes the writings of Lucilius, Horace, and Persius, highlighting the features that they crafted on the model of Aristophanes and his fellow poets: the authoritative yet compromised author; the self-referential discussions of poetics that vacillate between defensive and aggressive; the deployment of personal invective in the service of literary polemics; and the abiding interest in criticizing individuals, types, and language itself. The first book-length study in English on the relationship between Roman satire and Old Comedy, Roman Satire and the Old Comic Tradition will appeal to students and researchers in classics, comparative literature, and English.

Satires of Rome

2001-10-25 History
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Book Synopsis Satires of Rome by : Kirk Freudenburg

Download or read book Satires of Rome written by Kirk Freudenburg. This book was released on 2001-10-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This survey of Roman satire locates its most salient possibilities and effects at the center of every Roman reader's cultural and political self-understanding. This book describes the genre's numerous shifts in focus and tone over several centuries (from Lucilius to Juvenal) not as mere 'generic adjustments' that reflect the personal preferences of its authors, but as separate chapters in a special, generically encoded story of Rome's lost, and much lionized, Republican identity. Freedom exists in performance in ancient Rome: it is a 'spoken' entity. As a result, satire's programmatic shifts, from 'open' to 'understated' to 'cryptic' and so on, can never be purely 'literary' and 'apolitical' in focus and/or tone. In Satires of Rome, Professor Freudenburg reads these shifts as the genre's unique way of staging and agonizing over a crisis in Roman identity. Satire's standard 'genre question' in this book becomes a question of the Roman self.

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