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  title info:
    title: Making mockery
    sub title: the poetics of ancient satire
  name:
    name part: Rosen, Ralph Mark.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    place:
      place term: Oxford
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: 2007
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xiii, 294 pages)
  abstract: This book explores the dynamics of comic mockery and satire in Greek and Latin poetry, and argues that poets working in such genres composed their “attacks” on targets, and constructed their relationships with audiences, in accordance with a set of common poetic principles, protocols, and tropes. It encourages a synoptic, synchronic view of such poetry, from archaic iambus through Roman satire, and argues that only when we appreciate how an abstracted “poetics of mockery” governs individual poets can we fully understand how such poetry functioned diachronically in its own historical moment. The book examines in particular the strategies deployed by satirical poets to enlist the sympathies of a putative audience and convince them of the legitimacy of their personal attacks. It discusses the tension deliberately created by such poets between self-righteous didactic claims and a persistent desire to undermine them, and concludes that such poetry was felt by ancient audiences to achieve its greatest success as comedy precisely when they were left unable to ascribe to the satirist any consistent moral position. Several early chapters look to Greek myth for paradigms of comic mockery, and argue that these myths can illuminate the ways in which ancient audiences conceptualized specifically poeticized forms of satire. Poets addressed in this part of the book include Archilochus, Hipponax, Horace, Homer, Aristophanes, and Theocritus. Two chapters follow which address the satirical poetics of Callimachus and Juvenal, and a final chapter on the question of how ancient audiences responded the inherently controversial elements of such poetry.
  table of contents: The dynamics of ancient satirical poetry -- Two paradigms of mockery in Greek myth : Iambe and Demeter, Heracles and the Cercopes -- Where the blame lies : the question of Thersites -- Shifting perspectives of comic abjection : Odysseus and Polyphemus as figures of satire -- Satiric authenticity in Callimachus's iambi -- Mockery, self-mockery, and the didactic ruse : Juvenal, satires 9 and 5 -- Archilochus, Critias, and the poetics of abjection.
  note: Ralph M. Rosen.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
  subject:
    topic: Verse satire, Classical
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Poésie satirique ancienne
    topic: Histoire et critique
  subject:
    topic: Ancient & Classical
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM
  subject:
    topic: Verse satire, Classical
  classification: PA3022.S28 R67 2007eb
  classification: 880.09
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Classical culture and society
  identifier: 9780199789443
  identifier: 0199789444
  identifier: 9780195309966
  identifier: 9780195385953
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: Nz
    record creation date: 071103
    record change date: 20260318173825.1
    record identifier: in00005703171
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng