The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

作者: Kirk Freudenburg 著

出版社: Cambridge University Press

出版时间: 2005-06

版次: 1

ISBN: 9780521006279

定价: 284.70

装帧: 平装

开本: 16开

纸张: 胶版纸

页数: 374页

正文语种: 英语

分类: 外文古旧书>英文书>社会文化

SatireasadistinctgenreofwritingwasfirstdevelopedbytheRomansinthesecondcenturyBCE.Regardedbythemasuniquely'theirown',satireheldaspecialplaceintheRomanimaginationastheonegenrethatcouldaddresstheproblemsofcitylifefromtheperspectiveofa'realRoman'.InthisCambridgeCompanionaninternationalteamofscholarsprovidesastimulatingintroductiontoRomansatire'scorepractitionersandpractices,placingthemwithinthecontextsofGreco-Romanliteraryandpoliticalhistory.Besidesaddressingbasicquestionsofauthors,content,andform,thevolumelookstothequestionofwhatsatire'does'withintheworldofGreco-Romansocialexchanges,andgoesontotreatthegenre'sfurtherdevelopment,reception,andtranslationinElizabethanEnglandandbeyond.Includedarestudiesoftheprosimetric,'Menippean'satiresthatwouldbecomethemodelsofRabelais,Erasmus,More,and(narrativesatire'scrowningjewel)Swift. KirkFreudenburgisProfessorofLatinandChairoftheDepartmentoftheClassicsattheUniversityofIllinois.HispreviouspublicationsincludeTheWalkingMuse:HoraceandtheTheoryofSatire(PrincetonUniversityPress,1993)andSatiresofRome:ThreateningPosesfromLuciliustoJuvenal(CambridgeUniversityPress,2001). Notes on contributors

Acknowledgments

Notes on editions and abbreviations

Introduction: Roman satire

Part I: Satire as literature

　1 Rome’s first “satirists”: themes and genre in Ennius andLucilius

　2 The restless companion: Horace, Satires 1 and 2

　3 Speaking from silence: the Stoic paradoxes of Persius

　4 The poor man’s feast: Juvenal

　5 Citation and authority in Seneca’s Apocolocyntosis

　6 Late arrivals: Julian and Boethius

　7 Epic allusion in Roman satire

　8 Sleeping with the enemy: satire and philosophy

　9 The satiric maze: Petronius, satire, and the novel

Part II: Satire as social discourse

　10 Satire as aristocratic play

　11 Satire in a ritual context

　12 Satire and the poet: the body as self-referential symbol

　13 The libidinal rhetoric of satire

Part III: Beyond Rome: satire in English letters

　14 Roman satire in the sixteenth century

　15 Alluding to satire: Rochester, Dryden, and others

　16 The Horatian and the Juvenalesque in English letters

　17 The “presence” of Roman satire: modern receptions and theirinterpretative implications

Conclusion

　The turnaround: a volume retrospect on Roman satires

Key dates for the study of Roman satire

Bibliography

Index
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SatireasadistinctgenreofwritingwasfirstdevelopedbytheRomansinthesecondcenturyBCE.Regardedbythemasuniquely'theirown',satireheldaspecialplaceintheRomanimaginationastheonegenrethatcouldaddresstheproblemsofcitylifefromtheperspectiveofa'realRoman'.InthisCambridgeCompanionaninternationalteamofscholarsprovidesastimulatingintroductiontoRomansatire'scorepractitionersandpractices,placingthemwithinthecontextsofGreco-Romanliteraryandpoliticalhistory.Besidesaddressingbasicquestionsofauthors,content,andform,thevolumelookstothequestionofwhatsatire'does'withintheworldofGreco-Romansocialexchanges,andgoesontotreatthegenre'sfurtherdevelopment,reception,andtranslationinElizabethanEnglandandbeyond.Includedarestudiesoftheprosimetric,'Menippean'satiresthatwouldbecomethemodelsofRabelais,Erasmus,More,and(narrativesatire'scrowningjewel)Swift.
作者简介:
KirkFreudenburgisProfessorofLatinandChairoftheDepartmentoftheClassicsattheUniversityofIllinois.HispreviouspublicationsincludeTheWalkingMuse:HoraceandtheTheoryofSatire(PrincetonUniversityPress,1993)andSatiresofRome:ThreateningPosesfromLuciliustoJuvenal(CambridgeUniversityPress,2001).
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Notes on contributors

Acknowledgments

Notes on editions and abbreviations

Introduction: Roman satire

Part I: Satire as literature

　1 Rome’s first “satirists”: themes and genre in Ennius andLucilius

　2 The restless companion: Horace, Satires 1 and 2

　3 Speaking from silence: the Stoic paradoxes of Persius

　4 The poor man’s feast: Juvenal

　5 Citation and authority in Seneca’s Apocolocyntosis

　6 Late arrivals: Julian and Boethius

　7 Epic allusion in Roman satire

　8 Sleeping with the enemy: satire and philosophy

　9 The satiric maze: Petronius, satire, and the novel

Part II: Satire as social discourse

　10 Satire as aristocratic play

　11 Satire in a ritual context

　12 Satire and the poet: the body as self-referential symbol

　13 The libidinal rhetoric of satire

Part III: Beyond Rome: satire in English letters

　14 Roman satire in the sixteenth century

　15 Alluding to satire: Rochester, Dryden, and others

　16 The Horatian and the Juvenalesque in English letters

　17 The “presence” of Roman satire: modern receptions and theirinterpretative implications

Conclusion

　The turnaround: a volume retrospect on Roman satires

Key dates for the study of Roman satire

Bibliography

Index

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