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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... Speaking from silence : the Stoic paradoxes of Persius ANDREA CUCCHIARELLI 4 The poor man's feast : Juvenal The restless companion : Horace , Satires 1 and 2 48 62 81 VICTORIA RIMELL 5 Citation and authority in Seneca's Apocolocyntosis ...
... Speaking from silence : the Stoic paradoxes of Persius ANDREA CUCCHIARELLI 4 The poor man's feast : Juvenal The restless companion : Horace , Satires 1 and 2 48 62 81 VICTORIA RIMELL 5 Citation and authority in Seneca's Apocolocyntosis ...
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... Speaking Volumes ( 2001 ) , and contributed to various Cambridge Companions . COLIN BURROW is Reader in Renaissance and Comparative Literature and Director of Studies in English at Gonville and Caius College , Cambridge . His ...
... Speaking Volumes ( 2001 ) , and contributed to various Cambridge Companions . COLIN BURROW is Reader in Renaissance and Comparative Literature and Director of Studies in English at Gonville and Caius College , Cambridge . His ...
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... speak by Lucilius , and the social and political uses to which he put it . For Lucilius ' genre - chartering performance ( his thirty books of satires ) is , from start to finish , an aggressive overstatement of what it means to be a ...
... speak by Lucilius , and the social and political uses to which he put it . For Lucilius ' genre - chartering performance ( his thirty books of satires ) is , from start to finish , an aggressive overstatement of what it means to be a ...
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... speaking , rugged , and utterly Roman self . That performance speaks " the satirist " into existence ( his first appearance 9 For the Hellenization of second - century Rome , see especially Gruen ( 1992 ) . 10 On the satirists ...
... speaking , rugged , and utterly Roman self . That performance speaks " the satirist " into existence ( his first appearance 9 For the Hellenization of second - century Rome , see especially Gruen ( 1992 ) . 10 On the satirists ...
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Kirk Freudenburg. moving onto his terrain , is set with the challenge of speaking the way he once did . But none does ... speak to , send up , or other- wise ( satirically or perfectly ) suit the times in which they themselves live . 13 ...
Kirk Freudenburg. moving onto his terrain , is set with the challenge of speaking the way he once did . But none does ... speak to , send up , or other- wise ( satirically or perfectly ) suit the times in which they themselves live . 13 ...
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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