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Neo-Latin verse satire, ca. 1500-1800 : an ethical approach
- Title
- Neo-Latin verse satire, ca. 1500-1800 : an ethical approach / Sari Kivistö.
- Author
- Kivistö, Sari
- Publication
- Helsinki : Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2022.
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- Description
- 293 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- Within the framework of reading satire as ethical instruction in poetic form, this book aims to give a thematically focused examination of the still largely unstudied literary history of neo-Latin verse satire written ca. 1500-1800.
- Series Statement
- Commentationes humanarum litterarum, 0069-6587 ; 142 / 2022
- Uniform Title
- Commentationes humanarum litterarum ; 142.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-287) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Sermones on Mores -- Chapter 1. Programmatic Beginnings: Justif ing Satirical Indignation -- Chapter 2. Fathers and Sons: Satirical Tutorials on Life -- Chapter 3. How to Be Calm: Ethical Reflections on Poverty and Tranquillity of Mind -- Chapter 4. Cures and Incurables: Medical Satire -- Chapter 5. Prophetic Floods: Post-Edenic Reality in Religious Satire -- Chapter 6. Satirical Exemplarity and the Affective Language of Moral Monuments -- Chapter 7. Leaving the Countryside: Ironic Lessons on Conrenrment -- Conclusions on the Limits of Satire -- Bibliography -- Index nominum.
- ISBN
- 9789516534865
- 9516534864
- LCCN
- 9789516534865
- OCLC
- on1344225291
- 1344225291
- SCSB-14287068
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries