Making mockery : the poetics of ancient satire
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Making mockery : the poetics of ancient satire
(Classical culture and society)
Oxford University Press, 2007
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Bibliography: p. 269-285
Includes indexes
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内容説明
Making Mockery explores the dynamics of comic mockery and satire in Greek and Roman poetry, and argues that poets working with such material composed in accordance with shared generic principles and literary protocols. It encourages a synoptic, synchronic view of such poetry, from archaic iambus through Roman satire, and argues that if we can appreciate the abstract poetics of mockery that governs individual poets in such genres, we can we better understand
how such poetry functioned in its own historical moment.
Rosen examines in particular the various strategies deployed by ancient satirical poets to enlist the sympathies of a putative audience, convince them of the justice of their indignation and the legitimacy of their personal attacks. The mocking satirist at the height of his power remains elusive and paradoxical-a figure of self-constructed abjection, yet arrogant and sarcastic at the same time; a figure whose speech can be self-righteous one moment, but scandalous the next; who will insist on
the "reality" of his poetry, but make it clear that this reality is always mediated by an inescapable movement towards fictionality. While scholars have often, in principle, acknowledged the force of irony, persona-construction and other such devices by which satirists destabilize their claims, very
often in practice-especially when considering individual satirists in isolation from others-they too succumb to the satirist's invitation to take what he says at face value. Despite the sophisticated critical tools they may bring to bear on satirical texts, therefore, classicists still tend to treat such poets ultimately as monochromatically indignant, vindictive individuals on a genuine self-righteous mission. This study, however, argues that that a far subtler analysis of the aggressive,
poeticized subject in Classical antiquity-its target, and its audience-is called for.
目次
- 1: Dynamics of Ancient Satirical Poetry 2: Two Paradigms of Mockery in Greek Myth: Iambe and Demeter
- Heracles and the Cercopes 3: Where the Blame Lies: The Question of Thersites 4: Shifting Perspectives of Comic Abjection: Odysseus and Polyphemus as Figures of Satire 5: Satiric Authenticity in Callimachus' Iambi 6: Mockery, Self-mockery, and the Didactic Ruse: Juvenal Satires Nine and Five 7: Archilochus, Critias, and the Poetics of Abjection
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