A Companion to Persius and Juvenal
Title | A Companion to Persius and Juvenal PDF eBook |
Author | Susanna Braund |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | 645 |
Release | 2012-11-29 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1118301986 |
A Companion to Persius and Juvenal breaks new ground in its in-depth focus on both authors as "satiric successors"; detailed individual contributions suggest original perspectives on their work, and provide an in-depth exploration of Persius' and Juvenal's afterlives. Provides detailed and up-to-date guidance on the texts and contexts of Persius and Juvenal Offers substantial discussion of the reception of both authors, reflecting some of the most innovative work being done in contemporary Classics Contains a thorough exploration of Persius' and Juvenal's afterlives
Persius and Juvenal
Title | Persius and Juvenal PDF eBook |
Author | Maria Plaza |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | 568 |
Release | 2009-08-07 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 019157077X |
The last decades have seen a lively interest in Roman verse satire, and this collection of essays introduces the reader to the best of modern critical writing on Persius and Juvenal. The eight articles on Persius range from detailed analyses of his fine technique to readings inspired by theoretical approaches such as New Historicism, Reader-Response Criticism, and Dialogics. The nine selections on Juvenal focus upon the pivotal question in modern Juvenalian criticism: how serious is the poet when he voices his appallingly misogynist, homophobic, and xenophobic moralism? The contributors challenge the straightforward equivalence of author and speaker in a variety of ways, and they also point up the technical aspects of Juvenal's art. Three papers have been newly translated for this volume, and all Latin quotations are also given in English. A specially written Introduction provides a useful conspectus of recent scholarship.
A Companion to Roman Rhetoric
Title | A Companion to Roman Rhetoric PDF eBook |
Author | William Dominik |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | 544 |
Release | 2010-01-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1444334158 |
A Companion to Roman Rhetoric introduces the reader to the wide-ranging importance of rhetoric in Roman culture. A guide to Roman rhetoric from its origins to the Renaissance and beyond Comprises 32 original essays by leading international scholars Explores major figures Cicero and Quintilian in-depth Covers a broad range of topics such as rhetoric and politics, gender, status, self-identity, education, and literature Provides suggestions for further reading at the end of each chapter Includes a glossary of technical terms and an index of proper names and rhetorical concepts
The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire PDF eBook |
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.
Satires of Rome
Title | Satires of Rome PDF eBook |
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.
Juvenal and Persius
Title | Juvenal and Persius PDF eBook |
Author | Juvenal |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 151 |
Release | 1850 |
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A New and Literal Translation of Juvenal and Persius
Title | A New and Literal Translation of Juvenal and Persius PDF eBook |
Author | Juvenal |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 390 |
Release | 1807 |
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