Persius and the Programmatic Satire: A Study in Form and Imagery

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Cambridge University Press, 26 lug 2007 - 240 pagine
A critical study of Persius' poetic aims, aversions and techniques, based mainly on an extended analysis of Satires I. John Bramble shows how Persius' discontent with conventional literary language led him to compress the existing satiric idiom and create a powerful individual style. The author situates Persius' work in the tradition of Roman satire, and shows how he takes the concepts and metaphors of literary criticism back to their physical origins, to indict moral and literary decadence through a series of images connected with, for example, gluttony and sexual excess. This is a model study of a classical text, which makes consistent sense of a difficult and subtle manner, and answers questions posed by the potentially constricting nature of Roman poetic form. It also reconstructs the referential framework of ideas and associations upon which a sophisticated writer addressing a discriminating audience could draw.

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Sommario

The rejection of mythology
12
Literature as a revelation of life
23
THE NATURE AND SOURCES OF PERSIUS IMAGERY
33
67
118
ANALYSIS
141
JUVENAL AND
156
Virgil and the moderns at Persius 1 96
180
The disclaimer of malice
190
TEXT
205
TRANSLATION
209
INDEX LOCORUM POTIORUM
215
INDEX OF IMAGES TOPICS AND WORDS
222
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