The walking muse : Horace on the theory of satire / Kirk Freudenburg.

The walking muse : Horace on the theory of satire /

In laying the groundwork for a fresh and challenging reading of Roman satire, Kirk Freudenburg explores the literary precedents behind the situations and characters created by Horace, one of Rome's earliest and most influential satirists. Critics tend to think that his two books of Satires are...

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Main Author: Freudenburg, Kirk, 1961-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1993.
Series:Princeton legacy library.
Subjects:
Horace. > Satirae.
Horace > Aesthetics
Horatius Flaccus > Quintus > Satire
Verse satire, Latin > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Latin wit and humor > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Comic, The, in literature.
Aesthetics, Ancient.
Rome > In literature.
Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Horatian Satire and the Conventions of Popular Drama
  • Introductory Remarks: Ancient Rhetoric and the Persona Theory
  • The Persona of the Diatribe Satires and the Influence of Bion
  • Diatribe in the Age of Horace
  • The Persona and Self-Parody
  • Self-Parody and the Influence of the Comic Stage
  • Comic Self-Definition in Satires 1.4
  • The Comic Persona and His Comic World
  • The Subtlety and Depth of the Comic Analogy
  • Aristotle and the Iambographic Tradition: The Theoretical Precedents of Horace's Satiric Program
  • Introduction: The Theory of an Aristotelian Horace
  • Aristotle's Theory of the Liberal Jest
  • Aristotle on Old Comedy and the Iambic Idea
  • The Advocates of the Iambic Idea: Old-Comedy, the Iambos, and Cynic Moralizing
  • Libertas in the Age of Horace
  • Aristotelian Theory in Satires 1.4
  • Horace's Theory of Satire and the Iambographic Tradition
  • The Satires in the Context of Late Republican Stylistic Theory
  • Horace's Literary Rivals in Satires 1.1-1.4
  • The Stylist of Satires 1.4: A Most Unusual Horace
  • Simple Diction Artfully Arranged: Some Theoretical Precedents
  • Dionysius's On Word Arrangement and the Stoic Theory of Natural Word Order
  • Philodemus and Lucretius
  • Answering the Extremists: A New Look at Satires 1.4
  • Lucilius and the Atticist Theory of a Rugged Style
  • The Neoterics and Satires 1.10
  • Satires 1.10 and Lucilian Scholarship in the First Century B.C.
  • Callimachean Aesthetics and the Noble Mime
  • Morals and Aesthetics in the Satires.

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