Persius and the programmatic satire : a study in form and imagery /

A critical study of Persius' poetic aims, aversions and techniques, based mainly on an extended analysis of Satires I. John Bramble shows how Persius' discontent with conventional literary language led him to compress the existing satiric idiom and create a powerful individual style. The a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bramble, J. C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge [England] : University Press, 1974.
Colección:Cambridge classical studies.
Temas:
Persius > Literary style.
Perse > (Poète latin) > Critique et interprétation.
Persius
Persius Flaccus, Aulus. > Saturae.
Persius Flaccus, Aulus.
To 1500
Verse satire, Latin > History and criticism.
Latin language > Figures of speech.
Literary form > History > To 1500.
Poésie satirique latine > Histoire et critique.
Latin (Langue) > Figures de rhétorique.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Latin.
Latin language > Figures of speech
Literary form
Literature
Literary style
Verse satire, Latin
Rome > In literature.
Rome (Empire)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; PARENTIBUS OPTIMIS; PREFACE; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1 STYLE AND EXPRESSION IN PERSIUS' FIFTH SATIRE; EXCURSUS 1; The rejection of mythology; EXCURSUS 2; 'Pullatis' and 'bullatis' at Persius v. 19; EXCURSUS 3; Connotation in ancient literary theory; CHAPTER 2 THE PROGRAMMATIC SATIRE AND THE METHOD OF PERSIUS I; EXCURSUS: Literature as a revelation of life; CHAPTER 3 THE NATURE AND SOURCES OF PERSIUS' IMAGERY; LITERARY-CRITICAL MOTIFS; EARS; 'ASINUS'; 'EUGE' AND 'BELLE'; THE HEROIC PAST
  • MOTIFS SIMULTANEOUSLY SATIRIC AND LITERARY-CRITICALDISEASE; DRESS AND APPEARANCE; HOMOSEXUALITY AND EFFEMINACY; FOOD AND DRINK; EXCURSUS 1; Sexual imagery in Horace Epistles 1. 20 and Callimachus Epigram XXVIII Pf.; EXCURSUS 2; 'Digentia' in Horace's Epistles; EXCURSUS 3; Furius at Horace Satires II. 5.40-1; CHAPTER 4 PERSIUS' FIRST SATIRE: ANALYSIS; EXCURSUS 1; Nuts and uncles at Persius I. 10-11; EXCURSUS 2; 'Escae' at Persius 1. 22; EXCURSUS 3; 'Cutis' at Persius 1. 23; EXCURSUS 4; 'Pallor seniumque' at Persius 1. 26 and 'scire' at 1. 27; EXCURSUS 5; Dogs and doorsteps at Persius 1. 108-10
  • EXCURSUS 6Attractive surface and internal corruption; EXCURSUS 7; Structural techniques: the condemnation of the crowd; CHAPTER 5 GRANDEUR AND HUMILITY: JUVENAL AND THE HIGH STYLE; JUVENAL AND THE HIGH STYLE; APPENDIX 1: ACCIUS AND PACUVIUS AT PERSIUS 1. 76-8; APPENDIX 2: VIRGIL AND THE MODERNS AT PERSIUS 1. 96; APPENDIX 3: THE IMAGE OF THE CHILD IN ANCIENT SATIRE AND DIATRIBE; APPENDIX 4: THE DISCLAIMER OF MALICE; INDEXES; 1: INDEX OF MODERN AUTHORS; 2: INDEX LOCORUM POTIORUM; 3: INDEX OF IMAGES, TOPICS AND WORDS

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