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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... never as a writer of satires . Later scholars , such as Porphyrio in the second century and Diomedes in the fourth , are less reticent about Ennius ' role in the history of Roman satire . Although they make explicit room for Ennius ...
... never as a writer of satires . Later scholars , such as Porphyrio in the second century and Diomedes in the fourth , are less reticent about Ennius ' role in the history of Roman satire . Although they make explicit room for Ennius ...
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... never erased anything from his thoughts or from his page . But why should he ? His thoughts were his page . He wrote whatever came to mind not just because he was unim- pressed by Greek - style refinements , but because he could get ...
... never erased anything from his thoughts or from his page . But why should he ? His thoughts were his page . He wrote whatever came to mind not just because he was unim- pressed by Greek - style refinements , but because he could get ...
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... never very easy to trace . As Duncan Kennedy points out in his contribution , they tend to be found wherever one proposes to go looking for them . For the most part Roman satire does not matter to us . It does not have to . And we are ...
... never very easy to trace . As Duncan Kennedy points out in his contribution , they tend to be found wherever one proposes to go looking for them . For the most part Roman satire does not matter to us . It does not have to . And we are ...
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... never com- fortably settled . Their general preferences for Juvenal in the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods and for Horace in the Augustan period are just that : general preferences . With them , Martindale shows , English satirists ...
... never com- fortably settled . Their general preferences for Juvenal in the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods and for Horace in the Augustan period are just that : general preferences . With them , Martindale shows , English satirists ...
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... never out front , in a place well lit and heavily trafficked . For in its many guises , satire has never rated among the most companionable of public performances . The social cohesion it effects , when satirists opt to play rather than ...
... never out front , in a place well lit and heavily trafficked . For in its many guises , satire has never rated among the most companionable of public performances . The social cohesion it effects , when satirists opt to play rather than ...
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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