Satires of Rome : threatening poses from Lucilius to Juvenal / / Kirk Freudenburg [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Freudenburg Kirk <1961->
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2001
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xviii, 289 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 871/.0109
• Soggetto topico: Verse satire, Latin - History and criticism
• Soggetto geografico: Rome In literature
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 278-284) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Horace. The diatribe satires (Sermones 1.1-1.3): "You're no Lucilius" Sermones book 1 and the problem of genre. Remembered voices: satire made new in Sermones 1.1. The social poetics of Horatian libertas: since when is "enough" a "feast"? Hitting satire's finis: along for the ride in Sermones 1.5. Dogged by ambition: Sermones 1.6-10. Book 2 and the totalitarian squeeze: new rules for a New Age. Panegyric bluster and Ennius' Scipio in Horace, Sermones 2.1. Coming to terms with Scipio: the new look of post-Actian satire. Big friends and bravado in Sermones 2.1. Book 2 and the hissings of compliance. Nasidienus' dinner-party: too much of not enough -- 2. Persius. Of narrative and cosmogony: Persius and the invention of Nero. The Prologue: top-down aesthetics and the making of oneself. Faking it in Nero's orgasmatron: Persius 1 and the death of criticism. The satirist-physician and his out-of-joint world. Satire's lean feast: finding a lost "pile" in P. 2. Teaching and tail-wagging, critique as crutch: P. 4. Left for broke: satire as legacy in P. 6 -- 3. Juvenal. A lost voice found: Juvenal and the poetics of too much, too late. Rememberred monsters: time warp and martyr tales in Trajan's Rome. Ghost-assault in Juv. 1. The poor man's Lucilius. Life on the edge: from exaggeration to self-defeat. Beating a dead fish: the emperor-satirist of Juv. 4. Satires 3 and 5: the poor man's lunch of Umbricius and Trebius.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Satires of Rome
• ISBN: 1-107-12340-2; 1-280-43330-2; 0-511-61298-2; 0-511-17487-X; 0-511-04158-6; 0-511-15496-8; 0-511-32855-9; 0-511-04380-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910450065903321
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