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Juvenal and the Satiric Genre (Classical Literature and Society Series)
Frederick Jones
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Description for Juvenal and the Satiric Genre (Classical Literature and Society Series)
Paperback. Considers Greek and Roman literature primarily in relation to genre and theme. This series also aims to place writer and original addressee in their social context. It is suitable for both scholar and student, and to anyone interested in our classical inheritance. Editor(s): Taylor, David. Series: Classical Literature and Society. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 157 x 233 x 17. Weight in Grams: 362.
While claiming to stand outside literature altogether, Roman verse satire was the most aggressively literary of Roman genres, Juvenal's particularly so. In the opening lines of the corpus, his performance creates an arena in which the various genres of his Graeco-Roman cultural inheritance jostle to be heard, and are suppressed by his own generic identity. Juvenal and the Satiric Genre considers the fluid nature of the generic field, and how Juvenal comes out of and fits into it. Specifically, it measures his use of names, his ambiguous and sometimes hostile relations with other genres, especially the queen of genres, epic, ... Read more
While claiming to stand outside literature altogether, Roman verse satire was the most aggressively literary of Roman genres, Juvenal's particularly so. In the opening lines of the corpus, his performance creates an arena in which the various genres of his Graeco-Roman cultural inheritance jostle to be heard, and are suppressed by his own generic identity. Juvenal and the Satiric Genre considers the fluid nature of the generic field, and how Juvenal comes out of and fits into it. Specifically, it measures his use of names, his ambiguous and sometimes hostile relations with other genres, especially the queen of genres, epic, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Duckworth Publishers
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Series
Classical Literature and Society
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780715636862
SKU
V9780715636862
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About Frederick Jones
Frederick Jones is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Classics and Ancient History, Liverpool University. He has worked on Roman Satire, the Roman Novel, the use of names in Greek and Latin, and Latin linguistics.
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