The Cambridge companion to Roman satire

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 're...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Freudenburg, Kirk, 1961- (-)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press 2005
Colección:Cambridge companions to literature
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.