Anderson Essays on Roman Satire

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ISBN: 978-1-4008-5315-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, 514 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

The fifteen essays collected here argue that Roman verse satire should be viewed primarily as an art form, rather than as a social document or a direct expression of social protest. Originally published between 1956 and 1974, they constitute an impressive attempt to free Roman satire from misinterpretations that arose during the romantic era and that continue to plague scholars in the field. The author rejects the proposition that Juvenal and other satirists expressed spontaneous, unadorned anger and that the critic’s best approach is the study of the historical, social, economic and personal circumstances that led to their statement of that anger. This work develops his thesis that Roman satire was designed as a literary form and that the proper stance of the critic is to elucidate its art. Focusing on the dramatic character of the first-person speaker in the satires of Horace, Persius, and Juvenal, the author shows both how the speaker’s role was shaped to suit the purposes of the individual poems and how that role changed over successive collections of satires. Several essays also discuss the ways in which the satirists employed metaphors and similes and used contemporary ethical and rhetorical themes.

Originally published in 1982.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Anderson, William S.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

FrontMatter, pg. i
Contents, pg. v
Preface, pg. vii
Acknowledgments, pg. xvii
Roman Satirists and Literary Criticism, pg. 1
The Roman Socrates: Horace and His Satires, pg. 13
Autobiography and Art in Horace, pg. 50
The Form, Purpose, And Position Of Horace's Satire I, 8, pg. 74
Horace, the Unwilling Warrior: Satire I, 9, pg. 84
Venusina lucerna: The Horatian Model For Juvenal, pg. 103
Imagery in the Satires of Horace and Juvenal, pg. 115
Part versus Whole in Persius' Fifth Satire, pg. 153
Persius and the Rejection of Society, pg. 169
Studies in Book I of Juvenal, pg. 197
Juvenal 6: A Problem in Structure, pg. 255
The Programs of Juvenal's Later Books, pg. 277
Anger in Juvenal and Seneca, pg. 293
Lascivia vs. ira: Martial and Juvenal, pg. 362
Juvenal and Quintilian, pg. 396
Index, pg. 487