Satire and the Threat of Speech in Horace's "Satires" Bk. 1
Catherine Schlegel author Patricia A Rosenmeyer editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:University of Wisconsin Press
Published:30th Jan '06
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In his first book of Satires, written in the late, violent days of the Roman republic, Horace exposed satiric speech as a tool of power and domination. Using critical theories from classics, speech act analysis, and other fields, Catherine Schlegel argues that Horace's acute poetic observation of hostile speech provides insights into the operations of verbal control that are relevant to his time and to ours. She demonstrates that, though Horace is forced by his political circumstances to develop a new, unthreatening style of satire, his poems contain a challenge to our most profound habits of violence, hierarchy, and domination. Focusing on the relationships between speaker and audience and between old and new style, Schlegel examines the internal conflicts of a notoriously difficult text. This exciting contribution to the field of Horatian studies will be of interest to classicists as well as other scholars interested in the genre of satire.
A gracefully written, refreshingly lucid study that yields a number of fine observations along its way to reaching important conclusions. - Daniel Hooley, University of Missouri
ISBN: 9780299209506
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 390g
192 pages