Daniel Hooley

Roman Satire (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

This compact and critically up-to-date introduction to Roman satire examines the development of the genre, focusing particularly on the literary and social functionality of satire. It considers why it was important to the Romans and why it still matters.

• Provides a compact and critically up-to-date introduction to Roman satire.
• Focuses on the development and function of satire in literary and social contexts.
• Takes account of recent critical approaches.
• Keeps the uninitiated reader in mind, presuming no prior knowledge of the subject.
• Introduces each satirist in his own historical time and place - including the masters of Roman satire, Lucilius, Horace, Persius, and Juvenal.
• Facilitates comparative and intertextual discussion of different satirists.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780470777084
• Artikelnr.: 38207490

Autorenporträt

Daniel M. Hooley is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Missouri, Columbia. His previous publications include The Classics in Paraphrase: Ezra Pound and Modern Translators of Latin Poetry (1988) and The Knotted Thong: Structures of Mimesis in Persius (1997).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface.
Timeline: Roman satire and its influence.
Introduction.
1 Beginnings (?)
2 Horace.
3 Persius.
4 Juvenal.
5 Menippeans and after.
Notes.
Index.

Rezensionen

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2007

"This is the best introduction to this subject this reviewer hasencountered ... It is stimulating, original, and highlyinformative, and it takes account of all relevant scholarship... Summing Up: Essential. All readers; all levels."(Choice)

"What sets this introductory book apart from others of its kindis its dedication to tackling the perpetually vexing question ofsatire as a genre - the question that vexed the satiriststhemselves." (Bryn Mawr Classical Review)

"A volume to which one would direct bright students in search ofstimulation and intellectual challenge." (ScholiaReviews)"You can trust Hooley to convey to students and teachers in bothclassics and literature classes the best of current thinking on thegenre and mode of satire."
--John Henderson, University of Cambridge

"This is no run-of-the-mill introduction to Roman satire. Thebook does its solid introductory work, certainly, but at the sametime, it manages to be quite brilliant and chock-full of smart newobservations."
--Kirk Freudenburg, University of Illinois