The Cambridge Companion to Roman SatireKirk Freudenburg 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. |
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... later poems of Lucilius and Horace that go by the same name . For this reason it is perhaps best not to refer to them as " satires " at all . That is their title , but not really their genre . Satire , in that sense , " our " sense ...
... later poems of Lucilius and Horace that go by the same name . For this reason it is perhaps best not to refer to them as " satires " at all . That is their title , but not really their genre . Satire , in that sense , " our " sense ...
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... Later satirists , most famously Seneca ( ca. 4 BCE - CE 65 ) in his Apocolocyntosis , remind us of it repeatedly and pro- grammatically , as if to demonstrate what they can and , more importantly , cannot do while performing within ...
... Later satirists , most famously Seneca ( ca. 4 BCE - CE 65 ) in his Apocolocyntosis , remind us of it repeatedly and pro- grammatically , as if to demonstrate what they can and , more importantly , cannot do while performing within ...
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... later time ( in the early days of Horace ) this character Lucilianus became generalized to cover the conception of a Roman satura , there came into the definition and idea of satire a notion of vehement personal attack which is in fact ...
... later time ( in the early days of Horace ) this character Lucilianus became generalized to cover the conception of a Roman satura , there came into the definition and idea of satire a notion of vehement personal attack which is in fact ...
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... later development of these theories in eighteenth - century England ( with special emphasis on print satire ) see Donald ( 1996 ) 1-74 . 18 Typical is Cicero , Orator 88 : " the orator will use jest in a manner that is not too profuse ...
... later development of these theories in eighteenth - century England ( with special emphasis on print satire ) see Donald ( 1996 ) 1-74 . 18 Typical is Cicero , Orator 88 : " the orator will use jest in a manner that is not too profuse ...
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... later history . Lucilius is at the top and center of Juvenal's list.36 Horace and Persius are alluded to several times in Juvenal's first poem.37 Some of epic's and 35 For example , Kernan ( 1965 ) 36 : 36 The greatest satirists have ...
... later history . Lucilius is at the top and center of Juvenal's list.36 Horace and Persius are alluded to several times in Juvenal's first poem.37 Some of epic's and 35 For example , Kernan ( 1965 ) 36 : 36 The greatest satirists have ...
Contents
Romes first satirists themes and genre in Ennius and Lucilius | 33 |
The restless companion Horace Satires 1 and 2 | 48 |
Speaking from silence the Stoic paradoxes of Persius | 62 |
The poor mans feast Juvenal | 81 |
Citation and authority in Senecas Apocolocyntosis | 95 |
Late arrivals Julian and Boethius | 109 |
Epic allusion in Romance satire | 123 |
Sleeping with the enemy satire and philosophy | 146 |
Satire and the poet the body as selfreferential symbol | 207 |
The libidinal rhetoric of satire | 224 |
Roman satire in the sixteenth century | 243 |
Alluding to satire Rochester Dryden and others | 261 |
The Horatian and the Juvenalesque in English letters | 284 |
The presence of Roman satire modern receptions and their interpretative implications | 299 |
a volume retrospect on Roman satires | 309 |
Key dates for the study of Roman satire | 319 |
The satiric maze Petronius satire and the novel | 160 |
Satire as aristocratic play | 177 |
Satire in a ritual context | 192 |
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