Beyond Anger is the first detailed literary analysis of Juvenal's third book of Satires (Satires 7, 8, and 9). Braund focuses on the satiric techniques Juvenal employs in this book, arguing that in Book III Juvenal uses a new, ironic persona which makes his satire more indirect,…
The Roman satirists and their masks
The Roman satirists and their masks
The history of John Bull
Contains the five pamphlets with their original title pages: [1] Law is a bottomless-pit -- [2] John Bull in his senses -- [3] John Bull still in his senses -- [4] An appendix to John Bull still in his senses -- [5] Lewis Baboon turned honest, and John Bull politician. Pamphlets…
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…
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…
Aggressive Schreibweisen - Polemik, Invektive, vor allem aber "Satire" - sind seit der Antike einem Rechtfertigungsdruck ausgesetzt, der letztlich im Tabu der Kultur über Gewalt wurzelt. Die vorliegende Arbeit versteht Theoriebildung und Praxis "satirischen" Schreibens als Resul…
