Medical analogy in Latin satire

著者

• Kivistö, Sari

書誌事項

Medical analogy in Latin satire

Sari Kivistö

Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

• : hbk.

注記

Includes bibliographical references (p 194-208) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Offering fresh readings of numerous Neo-Latin texts, Medical Analogy in Latin Satire provides an introduction to medical issues in the tradition of Latin satire. The book explores what functions physical diseases and peculiarities had in early modern satires and how satire was considered as a form of healing instruction.

目次

Contents Acknowledgements Introduction: Medicine for the Sick Soul Medical Meta-language: Renaissance Commentaries and Poetics on the Healing Nature of Satire Painfully Happy: Satirical Disease Eulogies and the Good Life Wonderfully Unaware: Sensory Disabilities, Contemplation and Consolation Outlook and Virtue: Morally Symptomatic Physical Peculiarities Satire as Therapy Appendix: The Anthologies Used in This Study Notes Bibliography Index

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BB0184282X
• ISBN:
  • 9780230228122
• LCCN: 2009041365
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Basingstoke
• ページ数/冊数: ix, 214 p.
• 大きさ: 23 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : PA3033
  • DC22 : 877/.0093561
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Satire, Latin -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Diseases in literature
  • LCSH : Medicine in literature
  • LCSH : Literature and medicine