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The Invisible Satirist: Juvenal and Second-Century Rome

Autor James Uden
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 20 noi 2014
The Invisible Satirist offers a fresh new reading of the Satires of Juvenal, rediscovering the poet as a smart and scathing commentator on the cultural and political world of second-century Rome. Breaking away from the focus in recent scholarship on issues of genre, this study situates Juvenal's Satires within the context of the politics, oratory, and philosophy of Rome under Trajan and Hadrian. In particular, the book shows how Juvenal offers a distinctively Roman response to the Greek sophists and philosophers of the so-called "Second Sophistic." Whereas earlier studies argued for the satirist's adoption of an ironic persona in his poems, this book stresses the absence of any guiding, coherent first-person voice in his work, emphasizing instead the poems' plurality of voices and thematic preoccupation with performance and disguise. These sprawling rhetorical texts, intricately constructed but deliberately lacking any strong personal voice, ultimately communicate a sense of rootlessness and loss of identity-a sense of being invisible-within the cosmopolitan second-century world. The book will appeal to students and scholars of Roman satire, Imperial Roman culture, and Second Sophistic literature.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780199387274
ISBN-10: 0199387273
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 239 x 160 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Recenzii

J. Uden has written a very important, readable and intelligent new book. Unlike many other books on Juvenal, J. Uden does not place the poet in a generic sequence of verse satire. That field has been well ploughed, and it is not perhaps how writers actually work... This is a significant work and anybody who reads it will, like me, be challenged and inspired to read more.
Udens wide-ranging study situates Juvenals satires squarely in the context of a multicultural second-century world, in which firm boundaries between identities were hard to uphold, and he watches the ironies of Juvenals xenophobia unfold.
This is a thought-provoking book which will find appreciative readers not just with specialists in Juvenal but also amongst scholars of Greek and Latin literature of the early second century.
Trout's book constitutes a useful and timely contribution to a subject that has yet to yield up many of its most basic truths.

Notă biografică

James Uden is Assistant Professor of Classical Studies at Boston University.