TY  - GEN
T1  - Figuring genre in Roman satire
T2  - American classical studies ;
A1  - Keane, Catherine
LA  - English
PP  - Oxford ; New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
YR  - 2006
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocm65178167
AB  - Satirists are social critics, but they are also products of society. Horace, Persius, and Juvenal, the verse satirists of ancient Rome, exploit this double identity to produce their colorful commentaries on social life and behavior. In a fresh comparative study that combines literary and cultural analysis, Catherine Keane reveals how the satirists create such a vivid and incisive portrayal of the Roman social world. Throughout the tradition, the narrating satirist figure does not observe human behavior from a distance, but adopts a range of charged social roles to gain access to his subject matter. In his mission to entertain and moralize, he poses alternately as a theatrical performer and a spectator, a perpetrator and victim of violence, a jurist and criminal, a teacher and student. In these roles, the satirist conducts penetrating analyses of Rome's definitive social practices "from the inside." Satire's reputation as the quintessential Roman genre is thus even more justified than previously recognized. As literary artists and social commentators, the satirists rival the grandest authors of the classical canon. They teach their ancient and modern readers two important lessons.; First, satire reveals the inherent fragilities and complications, as well as acknowledging the benefits, of Roman society's most treasured institutions. The satiric perspective deepens our understanding of Roman ideologies and their fault lines. As the poets show, no system of judgment, punishment, entertainment, or social organization is without its flaws and failures. At the same time, readers are encouraged to view the satiric genre itself as a composite of these systems, loaded with cultural meaning and highly imperfect. The satirist who functions as both subject and critic, trains his readers to develop a critical perspective on every kind of authority, including his own.
OP  - 182
CN  - PA6056 .K37 2006eb
SN  - 9780195346022
SN  - 0195346025
SN  - 142376207X
SN  - 9781423762072
SN  - 9780195183306
SN  - 0195183304
SN  - 1280428643
SN  - 9781280428647
KW  - Verse satire, Latin : History and criticism.
KW  - Literary form : History : To 1500.
KW  - Literature and society : Rome.
KW  - Social problems in literature.
KW  - Poésie satirique latine : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Littérature et société : Rome.
KW  - Problèmes sociaux dans la littérature.
KW  - POETRY : Ancient, Classical & Medieval.
KW  - Literary form
KW  - Literature and society
KW  - Social problems in literature
KW  - Verse satire, Latin
KW  - Rome (Empire)
KW  - Satura
KW  - To 1500
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
KW  - History
ER  -