Making Mockery: The Poetics of Ancient Satire

by Ralph M. Rosen

Book Overview

Making Mockery explores the dynamics of comic mockery and satire in Greek and Roman poetry, and argues that poets working with such material composed in accordance with shared generic principles and literary protocols. It encourages a synoptic, synchronic view of such poetry, from archaic iambus through Roman satire, and argues that if we can appreciate the abstract poetics of mockery that governs individual poets in such genres, we can we better...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195385950
• ISBN13: 9780195385953
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"