Author: George Converse FiskePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Lucilius and Horace
Author: George Converse FiskePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Satire and the Threat of Speech
Author: Catherine M. SchlegelPublisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299209539
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
In his first book of Satires, written in the late, violent days of the Roman republic, Horace exposes satiric speech as a tool of power and domination. Using critical theories from classics, speech act theory, and others, Catherine Schlegel argues that Horace's acute poetic observation of hostile speech provides insights into the operations of verbal control that are relevant to his time and to ours. She demonstrates that though Horace is forced by his political circumstances to develop a new, unthreatening style of satire, his poems contain a challenge to our most profound habits of violence, hierarchy, and domination. Focusing on the relationships between speaker and audience and between old and new style, Schlegel examines the internal conflicts of a notoriously difficult text. This exciting contribution to the field of Horatian studies will be of interest to classicists as well as other scholars interested in the genre of satire.
Translating Horace
Author: HoracePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Laudatory poetry, Latin
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Satires of Rome
Author: Kirk FreudenburgPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521006217
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
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.
The Works of Horace
Author: HoraceLucilius and Horace
Author: George Converse FiskePublisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Horace: Satires Book II
Author: HoracePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 100904026X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The satires explored in this volume are some of the trickiest poems of ancient Rome's trickiest poet. Horace was an ironist, sneaky smart, and prone to hiding things under the surface. His Latin is dense and difficult. The challenges posed by these satires are especially acute because their voices, messages, and stylistic habits are many, and their themes range from the poet's anxieties about the limits of satiric free speech in the first poem to the ridiculous excesses of an outrageously overdone dinner party in the last. For students working at intermediate and advanced levels of Latin, this book makes the satires of Horace's second book of Sermones readable by explaining difficult issues of grammar, syntax, word-choice, genre, period, and style. For scholars who already know these poems well, it offers fresh insights into what satire is, and how these poems communicate as uniquely 'Horatian' expressions of the genre.
The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire
Author: Kirk FreudenburgPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521803595
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
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.
Lucilius, the Ars Poetica of Horace, and Persius ...
Author: George Converse FiskePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 42
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Lucilius and Horace
Author: George Converse FiskePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description