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Roman satire and the old comic tradition
- Title
- Roman satire and the old comic tradition / Jennifer L. Ferriss-Hill (University of Miami).
- Author
- Ferriss-Hill, Jennifer L., 1979-
- Publication
- New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- ©2015
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Details
- Description
- x, 302 pages; 26 cm
- Summary
- Quintilian famously claimed that satire was tota nostra, or totally ours, but this innovative volume demonstrates that many of Roman Satire's most distinctive characteristics derived from ancient Greek Old Comedy. Jennifer L. Ferriss-Hill analyzes the writings of Lucilius, Horace, and Persius, highlighting the features that they crafted on the model of Aristophanes and his fellow poets: the authoritative yet compromised author; the self-referential discussions of poetics that vacillate between defensive and aggressive; the deployment of personal invective in the service of literary polemics; and the abiding interest in criticizing individuals, types, and language itself. The first book-length study in English on the relationship between Roman Satire and Old Comedy, Roman Satire and the Old Comic Tradition will appeal to students and researchers in classics, comparative literature, and English.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Note
- "This monograph is a thoroughly revised and expanded version of my Ph.D. dissertation, Poetics and Polemics: Horace's Satiric Idiom and the Comic Tradition (Harvard University, 2008)."--Acknowledgments.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-275) and indexes.
- Contents
- Introduction -- The poet in tension -- Defensive poetics -- Literary criticism -- Criticizing the komodoumenoi -- Conclusion -- Bibliography.
- Call Number
- JFF 15-654
- ISBN
- 9781107081543 (hardback)
- 1107081548 (hardback)
- 9781107441545 (pbk.)
- 1107441544 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 2014032224
- OCLC
- 906232452
- Author
- Ferriss-Hill, Jennifer L., 1979- author.
- Title
- Roman satire and the old comic tradition / Jennifer L. Ferriss-Hill (University of Miami).
- Publisher
- New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- Copyright Date
- ©2015
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-275) and indexes.
- Research Call Number
- JFF 15-654