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Juvenal and the Poetics of Anonymity (Paperback)
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Juvenal and the Poetics of Anonymity (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Classical Studies
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The satirist Juvenal remains one of antiquity's greatest question
marks. His Satires entered the mainstream of the classical
tradition with nothing more than an uncertain name and a dubious
biography to recommend them. Tom Geue argues that the missing
author figure is no mere casualty of time's passage, but a
startling, concerted effect of the Satires themselves. Scribbling
dangerous social critique under a historical maximum of paranoia,
Juvenal harnessed this dark energy by wiping all traces of himself
- signature, body, biographical snippets, social connections - from
his reticent texts. This last major ambassador of a once
self-betraying genre took a radical leap into the anonymous.
Juvenal and the Poetics of Anonymity tracks this mystifying
self-concealment over the whole Juvenalian corpus. Through probing
close readings, it shows how important the missing author was to
this satire, and how that absence echoes and amplifies the neurotic
politics of writing under surveillance.
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