Juvenal and the Satiric Emotions
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780199981892
Subjects: Juvenal; Emotions in literature
Description: In his sixteen Satires, the Roman poet Juvenal explores the emotional provocations and pleasures associated with social criticism and mockery, drawing on a diverse array of Greco-Roman treatments of the emotions. But as Keane shows, the satiric emotions are not found only in the author's rhetorical performances; they are also at the centre of the human farrago that the Satires purport to treat. As he paints human experience and conflict from many angles, Juvenal explores the dynamic operation of emotions in society.