UID:
almafu_9959695969902883
Format:
1 online resource (xvi, 352 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-139-81655-1
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0-511-99894-5
Series Statement:
Cambridge companions to literature
Content:
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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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).
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Rome's first 'satirists' : themes and genre in Ennius and Lucilius /
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The restless companion : Horace, Satires 1 and 2 /
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Speaking from silence : the Stoic paradoxes of Persius /
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The poor man's feast : Juvenal /
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Citation and authority in Seneca's Apocolocyntosis /
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Late arrivals : Julian and Boethius /
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Epic allusion in Roman satire /
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Sleeping with the enemy : satire and philosophy /
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The satiric maze : Petronius, satire, and the novel /
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Satire as aristocratic play /
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Satire in a ritual context /
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Satire and the poet : the body as self-referential symbol /
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The libidinal rhetoric of satire /
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Roman satire in the sixteenth century /
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Alluding to satire : Rochester, Dryden, and others /
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The Horatian and the Juvenalesque in English letters /
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The 'presence' : of Roman satire : modern receptions and their interpretative implications /
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The turnaround : a volume retrospect on Roman satires /
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-00627-9
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-80359-4
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ancient Studies
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CCOL0521803594
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