Life in the Text: The Corpus of Persius' Satires

  • Catherine Keane

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapterpeer-review

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    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationA Companion to Persius and Juvenal
    PublisherWiley Blackwell
    Pages79-96
    Number of pages18
    ISBN (Print)9781405199650
    DOIs
    StatePublished - Sep 21 2012

    Keywords

    • Life in the text, corpus of Persius' Satires, appreciation of functional objects/shapes
    • Narratives of poetry books, manipulating texts' material form/limitations
    • Persius being no exception to the satiric pattern, developing it in unique ways
    • Persius using imagery, reflecting changing nature of the satiric genre itself
    • Persius' book as framework for thematic play/meaningful intratextuality
    • Persius' corpus fitting neither Lucilian abundance, nor a larger Horatian trajectory
    • Persius' self-presentation as the satirist's claims, in teaching the audience
    • Persius' textual corpus, interesting characteristics of Persius' text
    • Satire 1, the poet's pose changing, paradoxes, representative of the world
    • The Satires, the language of privacy, of a larger moral theme/poetic one

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