Making mockery : the poetics of ancient satire

Making mockery : the poetics of ancient satire / Ralph M. Rosen.

This book explores the dynamics of comic mockery and satire in Greek and Latin poetry, and argues that poets working in such genres composed their "attacks" on targets, and constructed their relationships with audiences, in accordance with a set of common poetic principles, protocols, and...

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Main Author: Rosen, Ralph Mark
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Series:Classical culture and society.
Subjects:
Verse satire, Classical > History and criticism.
Verse satire, Classical
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • The dynamics of ancient satirical poetry
  • Two paradigms of mockery in Greek myth : Iambe and Demeter, Heracles and the Cercopes
  • Where the blame lies : the question of Thersites
  • Shifting perspectives of comic abjection : Odysseus and Polyphemus as figures of satire
  • Satiric authenticity in Callimachus's iambi
  • Mockery, self-mockery, and the didactic ruse : Juvenal, satires 9 and 5
  • Archilochus, Critias, and the poetics of abjection.

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