| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 352 pages) |
| Series |
Cambridge companions to literature |
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Cambridge companions to literature
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| Contents |
Rome's first 'satirists' : themes and genre in Ennius and Lucilius / Frances Muecke -- The restless companion : Horace, Satires 1 and 2 / Emily Gowers -- Speaking from silence : the Stoic paradoxes of Persius / Andrea Cucchiarelli -- The poor man's feast : Juvenal / Victoria Rimell -- Citation and authority in Seneca's Apocolocyntosis / Ellen O'Gorman -- Late arrivals : Julian and Boethius / Joel Relihan -- Epic allusion in Roman satire / Catherine Connors -- Sleeping with the enemy : satire and philosophy / Roland Mayer -- The satiric maze : Petronius, satire, and the novel / Victoria Rimell -- Satire as aristocratic play / Thomas Habinek -- Satire in a ritual context / Fritz Graf -- Satire and the poet : the body as self-referential symbol / Alessandro Barchiesi and Andrea Cucchiarelli -- The libidinal rhetoric of satire / Erik Gunderson -- Roman satire in the sixteenth century / Colin Burrow -- Alluding to satire : Rochester, Dryden, and others / Dan Hooley -- The Horatian and the Juvenalesque in English letters / Charles Martindale -- The 'presence' : of Roman satire : modern receptions and their interpretative implications / Duncan Kennedy -- The turnaround : a volume retrospect on Roman satires / John Henderson |
| Summary |
An international team of scholars provides a stimulating introduction to Roman satire's core practitioners and practice, placing them within the contexts of Greco-Roman literary and political history |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-341) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Lindau, Erich. |
| Subject |
Satire, Latin -- History and criticism
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Literature -- history
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| SUBJECT |
Rome -- In literature
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Roman World |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Freudenburg, Kirk, 1961-
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| ISBN |
0511998945 |
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0521006279 (pbk.) |
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0521803594 |
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9780511998942 |
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9780521006279 (pbk.) |
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9780521803595 |
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