Juvenal and the poetics of anonymity /
"The satirist Juvenal remains one of antiquity's greatest question marks. His Satires entered the mainstream of the classical tradition with nothing more than an uncertain name and a dubious biography to recommend them. Tom Geue argues that the missing author figure is no mere casualty of...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Jezik: | angleščina |
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Cambridge ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2017.
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| Serija: | Cambridge classical studies.
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| Online dostop: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1578663 |
| Izvleček: | "The satirist Juvenal remains one of antiquity's greatest question marks. His Satires entered the mainstream of the classical tradition with nothing more than an uncertain name and a dubious biography to recommend them. Tom Geue argues that the missing author figure is no mere casualty of time's passage, but a startling, concerted effect of the Satires themselves. Scribbling dangerous social critique under a historical maximum of paranoia, Juvenal harnessed this dark energy by wiping all traces of himself - signature, body, biographical snippets, social connections - from his reticent texts. This last major ambassador of a once self-betraying genre took a radical leap into the anonymous. Juvenal and the Poetics of Anonymity tracks this mystifying self-concealment over the whole Juvenalian corpus. Through probing close readings, it shows how important the missing author was to this satire, and how that absence echoes and amplifies the neurotic politics of writing under surveillance"-- |
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| Fizični opis: | 1 online resource (xiii, 352 pages) |
| Bibliografija: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781108257244 1108257240 9781108236348 1108236340 1108246966 9781108246965 1108262481 9781108262484 1108245242 9781108245241 1108260640 9781108260640 1108258948 9781108258944 9781108416344 1108416349 9781108402859 1108402852 |