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Persius and Juvenal.

The last decades have seen a lively interest in Roman verse satire, and this collection of essays introduces the reader to the best of modern critical writing on Persius and Juvenal. The eight articles on Persius range from detailed analyses of his fine technique to readings inspired by theoretical...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Plaza, Maria
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : OUP Oxford, 2009.
Colección:Oxford readings in classical studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Contents; Introduction; I . PERSIUS; 1. Studies in Persius; 2. Style and Expression in Persius' Fifth Satire; 3. Persius' Didactic Satire: The Pupil as Teacher; 4. Association of Ideas in Persius; 5. Techniques of Irony and Comedy in Persius' Satire; 6. Persius and the Decoction of Nero; 7. Faking It in Nero's Orgasmatron: Persius 1 and the Death of Criticism; 8. Open Bodies and Closed Minds? Persius' Saturae in the Light of Bakhtin and Voloshinov; II. JUVENAL; 9. Juvenal's Canons of Social Criticism; 10. Survey; 11. Juvenal and Priapus.
  • 12. The Bodily Grotesque in Roman Satire: Images of Sterility13. Making a Spectacle: Deviant Men, Invective, and Pleasure; 14. Anger in Juvenal and Seneca; 15. Declamation and Contestation in Satire; 16. Naevolus cliens; 17. Satiric Grotesques in Public and Private: Juvenal, Dr Frankenstein, Raymond Chandler, and Absolutely Fabulous; References; Acknowledgements.