Juvenal and the satiric emotions / Catherine Keane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keane, Catherine, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Juvenal--Criticism and interpretation.

Juvenal.

Verse satire--History and criticism.

Verse satire.

Satire, Latin--History and criticism.

Satire, Latin.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

viii, 251 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]

Contents:

Introduction. Generalizing about juvenal ; Satire and affect ; Satiric emotions as subjects and tools ; Themes in Roman satire studies ; How to do things with feelings

Anger games. The indignant performer ; The contexts of juvenalian anger ; The rhetoric students at work ; Histories of anger ; Suppression, contestation ; compensation ; Anger between friends

Monstrous misogyny and the end of anger. Bringing it all back home ; Farrago and Phantasia ; A look in the mirror ; Passing on the burden

Change, decline, and the progress of satire. The Janus view ; Anger without eloquence ; Ante Ora Parentum ; Sermo and sirens

Considering tranquility. Democritus on display ; Beyond laughter ; Democritus in Rome? ; Demolition and reinvention ; The Senecan model ; The satirist behind closed doors ; Outside-in satire ; Reclaiming a legacy

The Praegrandis Senex. Rethinking the grand narrative ; The satiric Senex and the emotional plot ; Old men and Sermo ; Nestor Redivivus ; Not your father's Ira ; On reading the end, or "you and what army?"

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-237) and indexes.

ISBN:

0199981892

9780199981892

OCLC:

898052263