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Author: Juvenal
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1996-03-07
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780521356671
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new commentary on the first book of satires of the Roman satirist Juvenal. The essays on each of the poems together with the overview of Book I in the Introduction present the first integrated reading of the Satires as an organic structure.
Author: Decio Junio Juvenal
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Published: 1739
Total Pages: 438
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Frederick Jones
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2012-12-20
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1849667802
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile claiming to stand outside literature altogether, Roman verse satire was the most aggressively literary of Roman genres, Juvenal's particularly so. In the opening lines of the corpus, his performance creates an arena in which the various genres of his Graeco-Roman cultural inheritance jostle to be heard, and are suppressed by his own generic identity. Juvenal and the Satiric Genre considers the fluid nature of the generic field, and how Juvenal comes out of and fits into it. Specifically, it measures his use of names, his ambiguous and sometimes hostile relations with other genres, especially the queen of genres, epic, against his inherited and stated aim (of criticizing malefactors by name), and considers how the aspect of performance impinges on his multi-faceted satiric voice. This challenging series considers Greek and Roman literature primarily in relation to genre and theme. It also aims to place writer and original addressee in their social context. The series will appeal to both scholar and student, and to anyone interested in our classical inheritance.
Author: William Allan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014-03
Total Pages: 161
ISBN-13: 0199665451
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWilliam Allan's Very Short Introduction provides a concise and lively guide to the major authors, genres, and periods of classical literature. Drawing upon a wealth of material, he reveals just what makes the 'classics' such masterpieces and why they continue to influence and fascinate today.
Author: Kirk Freudenburg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-10-25
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780521006217
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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: Daniel Hooley
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2008-04-15
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 0470777087
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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: Jonathan Greenberg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 1107030188
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides a comprehensive overview for both beginning and advanced students of satiric forms from ancient poetry to contemporary digital media.
Author: Catherine Keane
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 0199981892
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text reveals Juvenal's creative exploitation of Greco-Roman ideas about the emotions in this new analysis of his Satires and their arrangement.
Author: Maria Plaza
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2006-01-26
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 0191535842
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMaria Plaza sets out to analyse the function of humour in the Roman satirists Horace, Persius, and Juvenal. Her starting point is that satire is driven by two motives, which are to a certain extent opposed: to display humour, and to promote a serious moral message. She argues that, while the Roman satirist needs humour for his work's aesthetic merit, his proposed message suffers from the ambivalence that humour brings with it. Her analysis shows that this paradox is not only socio-ideological but also aesthetic, forming the ground for the curious, hybrid nature of Roman satire.
