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

Satire As A Distinct Genre Of Writing Was First Developed By The Romans In The Second Century B.c.e. Regarded By Them As Uniquely Their Own, Satire Held A Special Place In The Roman Imagination As The One Genre That Could Address The Problems Of City Life From The Perspective Of A Real Roman. In This Cambridge Companion An International Team Of Scholars Provides A Stimulating Introduction To Roman Satire's Core Practitioners And Practices, Placing Them Within The Contexts Of Greco-roman Literary And Political History. Besides Addressing Basic Questions Of Authors, Content, And Form, The Volume Looks To The Question Of What Satire Does Within The World Of Greco-roman Social Exchanges, And Goes On To Treat The Genre's Further Development, Reception, And Translation In Elizabethan England And Beyond. Included Are Studies Of The Prosimetric, Menippean Satires That Would Become The Models For Rabelais, Erasmus, More, And (narrative Satire's Crowning Jewel) Swift.--jacket. Rome's First 'satirists' : Themes And Genre In Ennius And Lucilius / Frances Muecke -- The Restless Companion : Horace, Satires 1 And 2 / Emily Gowers -- Speaking From Silence : The Stoic Paradoxes Of Persius / Andrea Cucchiarelli -- The Poor Man's Feast : Juvenal / Victoria Rimell -- Citation And Authority In Seneca's Apocolocyntosis / Ellen O'gorman -- Late Arrivals : Julian And Boethius / Joel Relihan -- Epic Allusion In Roman Satire / Catherine Connors -- Sleeping With The Enemy : Satire And Philosophy / Roland Mayer -- The Satiric Maze : Petronius, Satire, And The Novel / Victoria Rimell -- Satire As Aristocratic Play / Thomas Habinek -- Satire In A Ritual Context / Fritz Graf -- Satire And The Poet : The Body As Self-referential Symbol / Alessandro Barchiesi And Andrea Cucchiarelli -- The Libidinal Rhetoric Of Satire / Erik Gunderson -- Roman Satire In The Sixteenth Century / Colin Burrow -- Alluding To Satire : Rochester, Dryden, And Others / Dan Hooley -- The Horatian And The Juvenalesque In English Letters / Charles Martindale -- The 'presence' : Of Roman Satire : Modern Receptions And Their Interpretative Implications / Duncan Kennedy -- The Turnaround : A Volume Retrospect On Roman Satires / John Henderson. Edited By Kirk Freudenburg. Includes Bibliography (p. 323-341) And Index. Satire as a distinct genre was first developed by the Romans and regarded as completely 'their own'. This Companion's international contributors provide a stimulating introduction to the genre and its individual proponents aimed particularly at non-specialists. Roman satires are explored both as generic, literary phenomena and as highly symbolic and effective social activities. Satire's transformation in late antiquity and reception in more recent centuries is also covered.