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The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire (Paperback, New)
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The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire (Paperback, New)
Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Satire as a distinct genre of writing was first developed by the
Romans in the second century BCE. Regarded by them as uniquely
'their own', satire held a special place in the Roman imagination
as the one genre that could address the problems of city life from
the perspective of a 'real Roman'. In this Cambridge Companion an
international team of scholars provides a stimulating introduction
to Roman satire's core practitioners and practices, placing them
within the contexts of Greco-Roman literary and political history.
Besides addressing basic questions of authors, content, and form,
the volume looks to the question of what satire 'does' within the
world of Greco-Roman social exchanges, and goes on to treat the
genre's further development, reception, and translation in
Elizabethan England and beyond. Included are studies of the
prosimetric, 'Menippean' satires that would become the models of
Rabelais, Erasmus, More, and (narrative satire's crowning jewel)
Swift.
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