The Question of the Origin of the Roman Satire
Author | : George Morton Lightfoot |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Satire, Latin |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : George Morton Lightfoot |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Satire, Latin |
ISBN | : |
Author | : George Morton Lightfoot |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Daniel Hooley |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2008-04-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0470777087 |
This compact and critically up-to-date introduction to Roman satire examines the development of the genre, focusing particularly on the literary and social functionality of satire. It considers why it was important to the Romans and why it still matters. Provides a compact and critically up-to-date introduction to Roman satire. Focuses on the development and function of satire in literary and social contexts. Takes account of recent critical approaches. Keeps the uninitiated reader in mind, presuming no prior knowledge of the subject. Introduces each satirist in his own historical time and place – including the masters of Roman satire, Lucilius, Horace, Persius, and Juvenal. Facilitates comparative and intertextual discussion of different satirists.
Author | : Kirk Freudenburg |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2001-10-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521006217 |
This survey of Roman satire locates its most salient possibilities and effects at the center of every Roman reader's cultural and political self-understanding. This book describes the genre's numerous shifts in focus and tone over several centuries (from Lucilius to Juvenal) not as mere 'generic adjustments' that reflect the personal preferences of its authors, but as separate chapters in a special, generically encoded story of Rome's lost, and much lionized, Republican identity. Freedom exists in performance in ancient Rome: it is a 'spoken' entity. As a result, satire's programmatic shifts, from 'open' to 'understated' to 'cryptic' and so on, can never be purely 'literary' and 'apolitical' in focus and/or tone. In Satires of Rome, Professor Freudenburg reads these shifts as the genre's unique way of staging and agonizing over a crisis in Roman identity. Satire's standard 'genre question' in this book becomes a question of the Roman self.
Author | : Kirk Freudenburg |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2005-05-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521803595 |
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.
Author | : Alexander Robertson Macewen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 70 |
Release | : 1877 |
Genre | : Latin poetry |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Juvenal |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 1785 |
Genre | : Satire, Latin |
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Author | : William Allan |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2014-03-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 019164336X |
From popular histories through to reworkings of classical subject matter by contemporary poets, dramatists, and novelists, the classical world and the masterpieces of its literature continue to fascinate readers and audiences in a huge variety of media. In this Very Short Introduction, William Allan explores what the 'classics' are and why they continue to shape our Western concepts of literature. Presenting a range of material from both Greek and Latin literature, he illustrates the variety and sophistication of these works, and considers examples from all the major genres. Ideal for the general reader interested in works of classic literature, as well as students at A-Level and University, this is a lively and lucid guide to the major authors and literary forms of the ancient period. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Author | : J. Wight Duff |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2023-04-28 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 0520331265 |
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1936.
Author | : Jennifer Ferriss-Hill |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 2022-06-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004453474 |
This volume, from an innovative scholar of Latin Literature and Greek Old Comedy, distills the modern corpus of scholarship on Roman Satire, presenting the genre in particular through the themes of literary ambition, self-fashioning, and poetic afterlife.