The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire

by: Freudenburg, K.

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Satire as a distinct genre was first developed by the Romans and regarded as completely 'their own'. This Companion's international contributors provide a stimulating introduction to the genre and its individual proponents aimed particularly at non-specialists. Roman satires are explored both as generic, literary phenomena and as highly symbolic and effective social activities. Satire's transformation in late antiquity and reception in more recent centuries is also covered.

Offers the most comprehensive coverage of any single volume on Roman satire, including its receptions in more recent centuries
Provides both the novice reader and the expert with the latest scholarship as well as numerous critical insights
Provides guides to further reading and to key dates in the genre's development

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Table of Contents
Introduction: posing for the companion: Roman satire Kirk Freudenburg
Part I. Satire as Literature:
1. Rome's first 'satirists': themes and genre in Ennius and Lucilius Frances Muecke
2. The restless companion: Horace, Satires 1 and 2 Emily Gowers
3. Speaking from silence: the Stoic paradoxes of Persius Andrea Cucchiarelli
4. The poor man's feast: Juvenal Victoria Rimell
5. Citation and authority in Seneca's Apocolocyntosis Ellen O'Gorman
6. Late arrivals: Julian and Boethius Joel Relihan
7. From turnips to turbot: epic allusion in Roman satire Catherine Connors
8. Sleeping with the enemy: satire and philosophy Roland Mayer
9. The satiric maze: Petronius, satire and the novel Victoria Rimell
Part II. Satire as Social Discourse:
10. Satire as aristocratic play Thomas Habinek
11. Satire in a ritual context Fritz Graf
12. Satire and the poet: the body as self-referential symbol Alessandro Barchiesi and Andrea Cucchiarelli
13. The libidinal rhetoric of satire Erik Gunderson
14. Roman satire in the sixteenth century Colin Burrow
15. Alluding to satire: Rochester, Dryden, and others Dan Hooley
16. The Horatian and the Juvenalesque in English letters Charles Martindale
17. The 'presence' of Roman satire: modern receptions and their interpretative implications Duncan Kennedy
Conclusion. The turnaround: a volume retrospect on Roman satires John Henderson.

The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire

by: Freudenburg, K.

• ISBN-13: 9780521006279 / 978-0-521-00627-9
• ISBN-03: 0521006279 / 0-521-00627-9
• Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2005

Price: 39,00 EURO

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