Roman satire and the old comic tradition / Jennifer L. Ferriss-Hill (University of Miami).
Roman satire and the old comic tradition / Jennifer L. Ferriss-Hill (University of Miami).
Roman satire and the old comic tradition / Jennifer L. Ferriss-Hill (University of Miami).
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New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
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G 2016/1997
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English
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Physical content
x, 302 pages ; 24 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
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volume
Contents
The poet in tension -- Defensive poetics -- Literary criticism -- Criticizing the Komodoumenoi.
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Publisher
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2015.
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Summary
Quintilian famously claimed that satire was tota nostra, or totally ours, but this innovative volume demonstrates that many of Roman Satire's most distinctive characteristics derived from ancient Greek Old Comedy. Jennifer L. Ferriss-Hill analyzes the writings of Lucilius, Horace, and Persius, highlighting the features that they crafted on the mode...
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Roman satire and the old comic tradition / Jennifer L. Ferriss-Hill (University of Miami).
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"This monograph is a thoroughly revised and expanded version of my Ph.D. dissertation, Poetics and Polemics: Horace's Satiric Idiom and the Comic Tradition (Harvard University, 2008)."--Acknowledgments.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-275) and indexes.
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ebook version 9781316237007
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©2015.
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G 2016/1997
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74VKzGpqBwrA
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ISBN
1107441544 (pbk.)
9781107081543 (hardback)
1107081548 (hardback)
9781107441545 (pbk.)
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877/.0109
MMS ID
991023511749702626
