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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781426503321

Autore

Johnson Timothy S

Titolo

Horace's iambic criticism [[electronic resource] ] : casting blame (iambikē poiēsis) / / by Timothy S. Johnson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, c2012

ISBN

1-283-33477-1

9786613334770

90-04-21603-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (328 p.)

Collana

Mnemosyne. Supplements, , 0169-8958 ; ; v. 334

Classificazione

6,12

FX 181605

Disciplina

871/.01

Soggetti

Iambic pentameter

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- A Personal Introduction -- Chapter . Non Res Et Agentia Verba Lycamben: On Not Hunting Down Lykambes -- Chapter 2. Society, Iambic Rage, and Self-Destruction (Epodes 1–7) -- Chapter . Rage—Repression—Rage: Iambic Responsions (Epodes –) -- Chapter 4. Horace’s Lying Lyre (Epodes 16–17) -- Chapter 5. Horace’s Iambic to Lyric Re/cantation (C. I.1; 5; 13–17) -- Chapter . Critical Pluralities: Iambikē Poiēsis in the Start and Stop of the Ars Poetica -- An Iambic Post-Lude -- Works Cited -- Subject Index -- IndexNominum.

Sommario/riassunto

To date the positive value of Horace’s iambic criticism has been underestimated, and overall Horace has been tamed too much. By examining the relationship of the iambic tradition with ritual, this book studies how Horace’s Epodes are more than partisan (consolidating Octavian’s victory by projecting hostilities onto powerless others) but meta-partisan (forming fractured entities into a diversified unity). As Horace moves through his iambics to lyrics ( Epodes to Odes ), he stages acts of aggression and retaliation along with attempts at resistance and reconciliation so that this shifting back and forth creates a correspondence between perspectives. Unity develops from diversity, polyeideia . This is the point at which Horace socializes literary criticism



( Ars Poetica ): societas becomes the telos of his poetics.