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The walking muse : Horace on the theory of satire / Kirk Freudenburg
by Freudenburg, Kirk (1961-)
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- ISBN 13
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Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 268 pages; 21cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-251) and indexes. 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. Subjects: Horace. Satirae.Horace AestheticsHoratius Flaccus Quintus Satire. Horace. Satirae.Horace Esth�tiqueHorace. Horatius Flaccus, Quintus. Saturae.Horace. SatiresHorace Criticism and interpretation. Verse satire, Latin History and criticism Theory, etc. Latin wit and humor History and criticism Theory, etc. Comic, The, in literature. Aesthetics, Ancient. POETRY Ancient, Classical & Medieval.HISTORY Ancient Greece.Aesthetics. Aesthetics, Ancient. Comic, The, in literature. Literature.Comic, The, in literature.Aesthetics, Ancient. Verse satire, Latin History and criticism. Verse satire, Latin History and criticism Theory, etc. Ancient History.Classical Studies.
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- Title
- The walking muse : Horace on the theory of satire / Kirk Freudenburg
- Author
- Freudenburg, Kirk (1961-)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
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- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0691031665
- ISBN 13
- 9780691031668
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- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press
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- Date Published
- 1992
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