Making mockery : the poetics of ancient satire / Ralph M. Rosen.
Title:
Making mockery : the poetics of ancient satire / Ralph M. Rosen.
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Publication:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Publication Date:
2007
ISBN:
9780195309966
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-285) and indexes.
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.
Content Type:
text
Carrier Type:
volume
Language:
English
