In this Book
- Satire and the Threat of Speech: Horace's Satires, Book 1
- Book
- 2005
- Published by: University of Wisconsin Press
summary
In his first book of Satires, written in the late, violent days of the Roman republic, Horace exposes satiric speech as a tool of power and domination. Using critical theories from classics, speech act theory, and others, 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.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. vii-viii
- 6. Auditor—Adiutor: Satires 1.9
- pp. 108-126
- Bibliography
- pp. 167-173
Additional Information
ISBN
9780299209537
Related ISBN(s)
9780299209506
MARC Record
OCLC
503446780
Pages
198
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2006