K. FREUDENBURG (éd.), The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire

Kirk FREUDENBURG (éd.), The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire, Edited by

Cambridge University Press, 2005, 342 p.

ISBN : 0521006279

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.

• Offers the most comprehensive coverage of any single volume on Roman satire, including its receptions in more recent centuries 
• Provides both the novice reader and the expert with the latest scholarship as well as numerous critical insights
• Provides guides to further reading and to key dates in the genre's development

 

CONTENTS:

Introduction: posing for the companion: Roman satire Kirk Freudenburg; Part I. Satire as Literature: 1. Rome's first ‘satirists': themes and genre in Ennius and Lucilius Frances Muecke; 2. The restless companion: Horace, Satires 1 and 2 Emily Gowers; 3. Speaking from silence: the Stoic paradoxes of Persius Andrea Cucchiarelli; 4. The poor man's feast: Juvenal Victoria Rimell; 5. Citation and authority in Seneca's Apocolocyntosis Ellen O'Gorman; 6. Late arrivals: Julian and Boethius Joel Relihan; 7. From turnips to turbot: epic allusion in Roman satire Catherine Connors; 8. Sleeping with the enemy: satire and philosophy Roland Mayer; 9. The satiric maze: Petronius, satire and the novel Victoria Rimell; Part II. Satire as Social Discourse: 10. Satire as aristocratic play Thomas Habinek; 11. Satire in a ritual context Fritz Graf; 12. Satire and the poet: the body as self-referential symbol Alessandro Barchiesi and Andrea Cucchiarelli; 13. The libidinal rhetoric of satire Erik Gunderson; 14. Roman satire in the sixteenth century Colin Burrow; 15. Alluding to satire: Rochester, Dryden, and others Dan Hooley; 16. The Horatian and the Juvenalesque in English letters Charles Martindale; 17. The ‘presence' of Roman satire: modern receptions and their interpretative implications Duncan Kennedy; Conclusion: The turnaround: a volume retrospect on Roman satires John Henderson.

 

CONTRIBUTORS:

Kirk Freudenburg, Frances Muecke, Emily Gowers, Andrea Cucchiarelli, Victoria Rimell, Ellen O'Gorman, Joel Relihan, Catherine Connors, Roland Mayer, Thomas Habinek, Fritz Graf, Alessandro Barchiesi, Erik Gunderson, Colin Burrow, Dan Hooley, Charles Martindale, Duncan Kennedy, John Henderson